Salesforce. Com Acquires Radian6

On May 2, 2011, saleforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) completed, through its wholly owned subsidiary salesforce.com Canada Corporation, the acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares of Radian6 Technologies Inc., the market and technology leader in social media monitoring and engagement, for an aggregate purchase price of US$350 million in cash and stock, subject to adjustments.

salesforce.com was represented by its team of in-house counsel, which included David Schellhase, Sam Fleischmann, Wei Chen and Paul Luongo, and assisted by McCarthy Tétrault LLP, with a team that included George Maziotis, Stephanie Lee, Max Rogan and Laurent Gauthier (corporate and mergers and acquisitions); Alfred Macchione, Cheryl Slusarchuk, Charles Morgan and Keith Chung (intellectual property, technology and privacy); Frederic Harvey , Christian Meighen and Bradley Thompson (tax); Rachel Solyom (labour & employment); John Boscariol (international trade) and Dominic Therrien (foreign investment and competition). Stewart McKelvey acted as special New Brunswick counsel to salesforce.com, with a team that included Peter Klohn and Andrew Clark.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP acted as US counsel to salesforce.com, with a team that included Todd Cleary, Tony Jefferies and Mike Coke.

Radian6 was represented by Labarge Weinstein Professional Corporation with a team that included Michael Dunleavy, Deborah Weinstein and Michael Tripp (corporate and mergers and acquisitions) and Michael Morgan (intellectual property). Foley & Lardner LLP acted as US counsel to Radian6, with a team that included Ronald Eppen, Paul Broude (securities) and Ken Appleby (tax).