Gunderson Dettmer Represented Tabular in Acquisition by Databricks

Gunderson Dettmer represented Tabular, a data management company, in its acquisition by Databricks, a data and AI company.  From the creators of Apache Iceberg, Tabular is an independent data platform that lets organizations work with a single storage layer simultaneously across compute engines and frameworks. With this acquisition, Databricks will expand its offerings by bringing together the original creators of Apache Iceberg™ and Linux Foundation Delta Lake, to solve open data lakehouse interoperability.

In the announcement of the acquisition, the Tabular team said, “There are quite a few of us at Tabular that contribute to the Apache Iceberg community, and we will continue to collaborate as we have over the past three years. Joining Databricks means that there will be more contributions from our new colleagues, and that we will also be working to improve Iceberg support throughout the Databricks platform. Our goal is to improve interoperability so that you can take advantage of the amazing work of both communities and don’t need to worry about the underlying format. While doing this, we assure that our approach to the Iceberg community itself is not changing.”

The Gunderson Dettmer deal team was led by corporate partner Mike Irvine and included corporate associates Yeji Han, Garrett Darling and Marissa Boykin, M&A associate Matt Martinez, executive compensation partner Craig Olshan and associate Brett Condie, data privacy partner Anna Westfelt and associate James Gately, regulatory/compliance partner Gregory Kinzelman, tax partners Mark Foster and Lily Kim, strategic transactions and licensing partner Gina Marek and associate Cameron Jahansouz and employment and labor Of Counsel Michael Hui.

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