Press Release
| July 12, 2010
Dewey & LeBoeuf Represents The Walt Disney Company in its Purchase of Social Application Developer Tapulous
(Silicon Valley, July 12, 2010) — The firm represented The Walt Disney Company in its purchase of Tapulous, a start-up company that makes music-based games for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Tapulous, based in Palo Alto, California, has over 30 million users and has been number one in Apple's App Store numerous times with its popular applications such as Tap Tap Revenge, the biggest game on the iPhone, and Riddim Ribbon.
The deal team was led by Partner Jane Ross and included Mike Clifton-Harter, Howard Adler, Carla Gorniak, Joe Pari, Sean McKeever, Bill MacDonald and Stan Lovenworth.
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