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O’Melveny Advises Leapforce on its Acquisition by Appen Limited

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Silicon Valley—Nov 28, 2017—O’Melveny represented Leapforce Inc., a leading provider of search relevance services with a highly automated and proprietary end-to-end technology platform, on its agreement to be acquired by Appen Limited (ASX:APX) for US$80 million (A$105.3 million).

The O’Melveny team was led by partner Warren Lazarow, counsel Noah Kornblith, and associates Amanda Bradley and John Chong. Partner Robert Fisher and counsel Billy Abbott advised on tax matters, associate Tom Oslovar advised on intellectual property matters, partner Eric Amdursky advised on employment matters, and senior counsel Warren Fox advised on executive compensation and benefits matters.

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