Pietro J. Signoracci

Paul, Weiss advised IBM on its subsidiary Red Hat, Inc.’s acquisition of Neural Magic, a pioneer in software and algorithms that speed up generative AI inference workloads. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, and the acquisition aims to enhance its ability to support large language models. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partner Steven Williams and includes, among others, partner Dotun Obadina; executive compensation partner Jarrett Hoffman; intellectual property partners Jonathan Ashtor and Brianna van Kan; tax partners Scott Sontag and Sohail Itani; antitrust partners Nicole Kar, Marta Kelly and Yuni Sobel, and counsel Chad de Souza and John Magruder; litigation partner Katherine Forrest, and counsel Audrey Paquet and Pietro Signoracci; and real estate partner Peter Fisch.

Dec 30

1 min

Paul, Weiss is advising Lennar Corporation, a $45 billion publicly traded homebuilder, in its acquisition of Rausch Coleman Homes, a residential homebuilder based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Under the terms of the deal, Lennar will acquire Rausch Coleman’s homebuilding operations and intends to assign the purchase of, and option, Rausch Coleman’s land assets with a third party. The deal will expand Lennar’s footprint into new markets in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kansas and Missouri while adding to its existing footprint in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Florida. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025, were not disclosed. The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Jeffrey Marell, Cullen Sinclair and Matthew Benedetto, and includes, among others, partners Timothy Cruickshank, Thomas de la Bastide, Suhan Shim and Brian Janson; tax partner Scott Sontag; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; executive compensation partner Lawrence Witdorchic; real estate partner Peter Fisch; antitrust partner Marta Kelly and counsel John Magruder; environmental counsel William O’Brien; and litigation counsel Audrey Paquet and Pietro Signoracci.

Nov 19

1 min

Paul, Weiss is advising IBM on its subsidiary Red Hat Inc.’s acquisition of Neural Magic, a pioneer in software and algorithms that speed up generative AI inference workloads. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, and the acquisition aims to enhance its ability to support large language models. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partner Steven Williams and includes, among others, counsel Dotun Obadina; executive compensation partner Jarrett Hoffman; tax partners Scott Sontag and Sohail Itani; intellectual property partner Jonathan Ashtor and counsel Brianna van Kan; antitrust partners Nicole Kar and Marta Kelly, and counsel Chad de Souza and John Magruder; litigation partner Katherine Forrest, and counsel Audrey Paquet and Pietro Signoracci; and real estate partner Peter Fisch.

Nov 26

1 min

Paul, Weiss is advising Sagewind Capital LLC, a government technology-focused private equity firm, in its majority investment in Aechelon Technology, Inc., a premier provider of image generation software and complex databases enabling live-virtual-constructive training, mission rehearsal, sensor exploitation and command and control for full-flight aircraft simulators that train pilots across the U.S. Department of Defense. The transaction marks Sagewind’s eighth platform investment in the government technology sector. The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partner Ted Ackerman and counsel Robert Balis, and includes partner David Tarr and counsel David Epstein; tax partner Scott Sontag; executive compensation partner Rebecca Coccaro; intellectual property partners Claudine Meredith-Goujon and Jonathan Ashtor and counsel Brianna van Kan; antitrust partner Annie Herdman and counsel Yuni Sobel; real estate partner Peter Fisch; litigation counsel Audrey Paquet and Pietro Signoracci; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.

Nov 25

1 min

Paul, Weiss is advising D-Wave Quantum Inc., a leader in quantum computing systems, software and services, and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, in its $550 million cash-and-stock acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., a leading developer of error-corrected superconducting gate-model quantum computing systems. The transaction secures D-Wave's position as the only company capable of addressing the full quantum computing opportunity with industry-leading gate-model and annealing quantum computing technology. The purchase price will consist of $300 million in D-Wave common stock and $250 million in cash. The deal is expected to close this month, pending customary closing conditions. The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Stan Richards, Adam Givertz and Christian Kurtz, and includes partners Christopher Cummings, Peter McCormack and Steven Kaye; intellectual property partners Jonathan Ashtor and Brianna van Kan; executive compensation partners Christopher Gonnella and Matthew Friestedt; tax partners Sohail Itani and Brian Krause; antitrust partners Marta Kelly and Yuni Sobel, and counsel Todd Hahn and John Magruder; and litigation partner Pietro Signoracci.

Jan 7

1 min