Michael Wyatt, BS ’90, MBA ’94

Mike Wyatt is a Managing Director and Head of Global Technology M&A for Morgan Stanley’s Technology Banking Group, based in Menlo Park. Mike joined Morgan Stanley in 1994 and has been a strategic advisor to clients in the areas of technology, media, and telecommunications since joining the firm, focusing specifically on technology clients since moving to California in 1998. Over the last 25 years, Mike has advised on over 200 transactions in excess of $300bn of total value. 

Mike’s recent transactions include Microsoft’s $25bn acquisition of Linked In, $11bn sale of Infor to Koch Industries, $5bn merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks, $2.7bn sale of Shutterfly to Apollo, $2.2bn sale of Carbon Black to VMWare, $2bn sale of Forescout to Advent/Crosspoint, $2.7bn sale of Cast & Crew from Silver Lake to EQT, Koch’s $2bn investment in Infor, the $2bn sale of Polycom to Siris Capital, the $1.5bn sale of Cray to HPE, the $1.5bn sale of Ruckus to Brocade, the $2.0bn merger of Spansion and Cypress, $2.3bn sale of Conversant (formerly ValueClick) to Alliance Data Systems, the $1.0bn acquisition of Mandiant by FireEye, the $800m acquisition of Lifetouch by Shutterfly, the $800m sale of Braintree to eBay, the $1.0bn sale of Eloqua to Oracle, the $2.5bn sale of Quest Software to Dell and the $4.5bn sale of Ariba to SAP. Previous transactions include the $7.7bn sale of McAfee to Intel, the $3.3bn sale of Hyperion to Oracle, the $6.6bn sale of aQuantive to Microsoft, and HP’s $3.3bn acquisition of 3com. 

Mike received a BS from Stanford in Industrial Engineering, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mike also serves on the Board of Directors of Save The Redwoods League.