For East Palo Alto-based DLA Piper partner Brad Rock, helping the sixth-richest man in the world buy Hawaii’s sixth-largest island may have been a plum legal assignment, but it was no vacation.

“I did not play golf,” Rock says of the trip he took to Lanai earlier this year as part of his due diligence in advising on Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison’s acquisition of the island from fellow billionaire David Murdock for an amount the two sides would only say was hundreds of millions of dollars.

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