What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Open Source License Compliance and M&A Activity
Jul 11 2023
Spoiler alert: In 2022, audits found open source in 100% of our customer engagements.
Open source security and license compliance are primary concerns of acquirers and targets involved in tech merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Along with the intellectual property in their targets’ codebases, identifying open source in the target’s code base is essential to M&A transactions involving software.
Watch this webinar to learn more about:
- The risk of not evaluating open source in M&A
- How companies can prepare to avoid legal risks of non-compliance
- The role of open source license compliance
Speaker:
- Sam Quakenbush, Senior Director – Field Innovation & Strategy, Mend.io
