On June 28, 2022, LinkedIn announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire EduBrite, a platform that specializes in creating, hosting, and deploying professional certificates. The acquisition will allow LinkedIn to integrate EduBrite’s rigorous certification assessment engine into the LinkedIn Learning platform which will enable LinkedIn to better test and verify the skills people have to help them grow in their careers and enable them to earn credentials from organizations that they can then showcase on their LinkedIn profile.

The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati team that represented LinkedIn in the transaction included:

M&A
Rich Mullen
Tracy Sevush
Elia Perez Villamarin
Rana Eid
Savannah Artusi

Technology Transactions
Barath Chari
Sean Withall

Privacy and Cybersecurity
Matt Staples
Daniel Chen
Michael O’Brien

Tax
Myra Sutanto Shen
Brandon King

Employee Benefits and Compensation
Scott McCall
Jessica Bliss

Employment
Rebecca Stuart
Nedim Novakovic

For more information, please see LinkedIn’s press release.