Ropes & Gray has hired Matthew Jacobson to expand its M&A group in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Jacobson was most recently a partner at King & Spalding, a firm he joined in August 2014 after serving as co-head of the technology and outsourcing practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York. The veteran transactional lawyer said his move to Ropes & Gray was in part based on a desire to return to California.
“When I left California in 2005, you really didn’t do much cross-border or highly regulated deal work from the Valley, it didn’t play back to the Valley in the same way,” Jacobson said. “Now we are at a point where the general growth of technology and different trends such as sector convergence, international technology activity and regulatory developments like CFIUS are affecting the Valley in more direct and meaningful ways. It is an exciting time to come back.”
