About

STMicroelectronics is a French-Italian leading multinational electronics and semiconductor manufacturer and is Europe’s largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue. The legal team use their legal expertise in the area of technology to drive legal and support management for strategic M&As, from due diligence to deal negotiation and further post-transaction integration. The legal team has supported the company’s recent aims to make personal computers (PC) more user friendly, greener and more secure, a process accomplished through a user presence detection solution where the output from software, ST’s FlightSense is used by Intel Context Sensing to monitor the user’s presence in front of their PC, detecting absence and reducing power consumption. Amongst its most known acquisitions, the legal team has been fundamental to a number of large-scale M&A deal and divestures, such as the acquisition of a majority stake in Silicon Carbide Wafer Manufacturer Norstel, the sales assets to Intel to Micron and joint ventures with NXP and Ericsson.