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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has advised U.S. chipmaker MaxLinear on its $3.8 billion acquisition of Taiwan-based Silicon Motion Technologies, which was represented by Latham & Watkins and K&L Gates.

The deal will create one of the largest fabless semiconductor suppliers in the world, according to Reuters. The combination will allow the merged entity to expand into enterprise, consumer and many other growth markets with more than $2 billion in combined revenue annually and total available market opportunity of $15 billion, Reuters added.

The Wilson Sonsini team included partners Robert Ishii and Richard Mullen.

The Latham team was led by partners Charles Ruck, Christopher Drewry, and Benjamin Su, while the K&L  team was led by partners James Chen and Robert Matlin.

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