Mr. Travers is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, practicing in the Menlo Park office. He advises technology companies and their underwriters and investors on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other corporate transactions. Recent matters he has worked on include KLA-Tencor’s acquisitions of ADE, Therma-Wave, SensArray, OnWafer and FabSolve; Software AG’s acquisition of webMethods; Affymetrix’s acquisition of ParAllele; Comcast’s strategic partnership with TiVo; a $2.25 billion debt offering by Comcast Corporation; a $700 million secondary offering of Seagate Technology’s common stock; a $400 million high-yield note offering by E*Trade; Affymax’s initial public offering; convertible debt offerings by Borland Software, Boston Properties, Informatica, Intel, Macrovision and Xilinx; and various investments in private companies by affiliates of Richemont.

Mr. Travers joined Davis Polk in 2003 and became a partner in 2007.

From 1999 to 2003, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston’s Technology Group, where he advised software companies on a broad range of corporate finance and strategic transactions. Prior to that, he was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

Mr. Travers graduated, magna cum laude, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1993 and in 1996 received his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was managing and book review editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, from 1996 to 1997. He is admitted to the bars of California, the District of Columbia and New York.