On March 19, 2025, SoftBank Group Corp. announced that it will acquire Ampere Computing, a leading independent silicon design company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.5 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Ampere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group and retain its name. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the second half of 2025. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Ampere on the transaction.

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2018 with an initial focus on cloud-native computing, Ampere has since expanded into sustainable AI compute. The company has multiple products for a spectrum of cloud workloads from the edge to the cloud data center.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Ampere on the transaction included:

Corporate/M&A
Robert Day
Todd Cleary
Brendan Mahan
Adam Bloom
Kristen Kercher
Eleanor Bleecker
Orlando Hodges
Joanna Leung
CJ Collins
Matt Katona

Antitrust and Competition
Maureen Ohlhausen
Brendan Coffman
Kim Biagioli
John Sack

Tax
Jonathan Zhu
Derek Wallace
Rob A. Sherrill

National Security
Stephen Heifetz
Josh Gruenspecht
Josephine Aiello LeBeau
Seth Cowell
Grace Beck

Employee Benefits and Compensation
Dave Thomas
Brandon Gantus
Greg Hughes
Jason Chan

Technology Transactions
Barath Chari
Stefan Geirhofer
Mary O’Brien
Isabel Annino
Chris Murray
Anna Weber

Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
Matt Staples
Michael O'Brien
Diya Jajal

Employment and Trade Secrets
Matt Gorman
Quinn Christie

Real Estate
James McCann
Moncarol Wang

For more information, please see the companies’ news release.