NVIDIA Receives Unconditional Phase 1 Clearance for Mellanox Acquisition

Cleary Gottlieb successfully represented NVIDIA in merger proceedings before the European Commission leading to the unconditional authorization of its $6.8 billion acquisition of Mellanox.

The acquisition brings together Mellanox’s highly regarded network interconnects and NVIDIA’s GPUs, which allow datacenters to accelerate workloads. The combination will allow the parties to further accelerate innovation in datacenters, bringing higher performance to customers.

Mellanox is an Israeli-American supplier of computer networking products for datacenters.