Daniel Saposnik

Danny Saposnik is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology M&A practice. He represents founder-led, venture-backed technology companies, and the investors behind them, in company sales, acquisitions, AI licensing and talent transactions, and other strategic transactions.

Danny has led company sales to the world’s largest technology acquirers, growth-stage strategics, and financial sponsors. He has also represented companies, and their investors, in six of the defining AI licensing and talent transactions, beginning with Inflection AI’s transaction with Microsoft in March 2024, widely regarded as the template for the deals that followed.

Danny’s practice is regularly cross-border. He began his career in Toronto before moving to Silicon Valley, and his deals since have involved companies in Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, Ukraine, Ireland, Finland, Israel, Canada, Argentina, Pakistan, China, Australia, and New Zealand. Deals that cross borders also cross cultures, and there his work is equal parts advocacy and translation, advancing his clients’ priorities while making sure each side hears what the other means.

Sell-Side Transactions

• Empower Semiconductor in its $1.5 billion acquisition by Analog Devices
• Morpheus AI in its acquisition by Roblox
• Melio in its acquisition by Xero for up to $3 billion
• Securiti AI in its $1.725 billion acquisition by Veeam, an Insight Partners portfolio company
• RIVR Robotics in its sale to Amazon
• Momentum in its sale to Salesforce
• WaveForms AI in its sale to Meta
• Meshcapade in its sale to Epic Games
• BrightHire in its sale to Zoom
• SGNL in its sale to CrowdStrike
• Stytch in its sale to Twilio
• Embrace in its sale to Palo Alto Networks
• Talon Cyber Security in its sale to Palo Alto Networks
• HLTH in its sale to Hyve
• Photomath in its sale to Google
• Beeper in its sale to Automattic
• Onna Technologies in its sale to Reveal
• Flux in its sale to Beamery

AI Licensing and Talent Transactions

• Inflection AI in its licensing and talent transaction with Microsoft
• Adept in its licensing and talent transaction with Amazon
• Covariant in its licensing and talent transaction with Amazon
• Dreamer in its licensing and talent transaction with Meta

Investor Representations

• An investor consortium including General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins in connection with Google’s licensing and talent transaction with Windsurf
• An institutional investor in connection with ServiceNow’s $2.85 billion acquisition of Moveworks
• An investor in connection with HiBob’s acquisition of Mosaic
• Centana Growth Partners, as investor, in connection with Clearwater Analytics’ acquisition of Beacon Platform

Buy-Side Transactions

• Oura in its acquisition of Proxy
• Sema4.ai in its acquisition of Robocorp
• LetsGetChecked in its acquisition of BioIQ
• Charm Industrial in its acquisition of a complementary business
• Aqua in its acquisition of AIX Platform

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2021, Danny practiced in the Silicon Valley offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where his work combined technology M&A and private equity, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he practiced in private equity. He began his legal career at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto. His earlier experience included Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC — at the time the largest technology deal in history — and Tsinghua Unigroup’s carve-out acquisition of a majority stake in H3C from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The Best Lawyers in America, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Technology Law, 2023–present

• Contributor, “The 2026 Deep Tech Report,” Drumbeat Capital, June 2026
• Co-Author, “Why the AI Race Hinges on Elite Talent,” Goodwin Forces of Law, December 2025
• Speaker, “The Competition for AI’s Scarcest Resource” (discussion), Goodwin Insights, February 2026
• Panelist, “The Deal Doctors,” The Big Deal 2026 (Willis Insights on M&A and Private Equity), New Orleans, June 2026