Foley Hoag advised Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects businesses online, in its
recently announced acquisition of Fermyon Technologies, Inc., a serverless WebAssembly company. Akamai plans to leverage the shift of artificial intelligence inference to the edge by combining Fermyon’s cloud-native WebAssembly function-as-a-service with its globally distributed platform.
The Foley Hoag team advising Akamai was led by Corey Brown, and included Nitzan Fisher Conforti, Matt Donovan, Devyn Parry, Earl Mellott, Alexandra Levay, Barbara Klepper, Chris Hart and John Lanza.