Barnaby Gibson is responsible for the legal aspects of strategic transactions/M&A, investments, and financings at ServiceNow, Inc. Prior to that, Barnaby was at Skadden, handling complex transactions for some of the world's best known companies, investment banks, and private equity funds, and General Counsel and Chief of Staff of ITHAKA, a technology incubator that is the home of JSTOR and playing an important role as technology transforms research and universities. During the dot-com years, Barnaby helped Davis Polk, another top law firm, in its efforts to establish a successful Menlo Park-based office.

Joseph Halloum leads the M&A/Private Equity practice in Silicon Valley. He represents public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, in a wide range of domestic and international transactions, capital structures and investments, governance and activism defense, finance, securities and other general corporate matters. Joseph is a nationally-recognized M&A advisor who has led on several of the largest and most notable technology and life sciences deals over the last several years. Joseph is a member of the firm’s Public Company, Private Equity and Technology industry teams.

Megan Larsen is a senior associate at King & Spalding LLP, with a practice that focuses on mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions and general corporate matters. Megan works with companies, entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, and strategic corporate investors and acquirers across a range of sectors, including enterprise software, software and cloud infrastructure, fintech, financial services, data analytics, cybersecurity, e-commerce, hardware, government services and logistics and supply chain management. Megan routinely advises clients on both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions. Megan also advises emerging growth companies throughout every stage of the corporate lifecycle — from counseling on initial formation, to equity and debt financings and exit transactions.