Gunderson Dettmer Represented Veza in Acquisition by ServiceNow

Gunderson Dettmer represented client Veza, a leading AI-native identity security platform, in its acquisition by ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention.  

Veza is powered by its patented Access Graph, which maps and analyzes access relationships across human, machine, and AI identities, providing an end-to-end access visibility and risk control platform for all types of identity.

The acquisition will extend the capabilities of ServiceNow’s Security and Risk portfolios into Identity Security, enabling organizations to understand and control who and what has access to their critical data, applications, systems, and AI artifacts

In the announcement of the acquisition, Veza CEO Tarun Thakur said, “With ServiceNow, we will help customers embrace AI with greater confidence. Together, we can turn identity governance and identity security into a strategic advantage by giving organizations clear, integrated control over every type of identity — whether it belongs to a person, a machine, or an AI agent.”

The Gunderson deal team was led by corporate partner Mike Irvine and included corporate associates Damon Zhangchai, Travis Glock, Will Fogarty, Marissa Boykin and Julia Golombik, strategic transactions and licensing partner Aaron Fiske, of counsel Nathan Lovejoy, and associates Cameron Jahansouz, Brittany Nicely, Zachary Leonard, Killian McDonald, Janice Poon, and Greg Logan, data privacy partner Anna Westfelt and associates Frida Alim and Carrie Brown, tax partner Mark Foster and associate Morgan Otway, employment & labor partner Natalie Pierce and associate Viviane Scott, executive compensation partner Michael Richman and associate Erik Ward, and regulatory partner Gregory Kinzelman.

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