Akamai Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire LayerX

Akamai Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire LayerX

Client News

Related Solutions

Providing a strategic, multidisciplinary approach to help clients develop and use AI and to navigate the landscape of Big Data.
We help companies protect data, comply with evolving regulations, and respond to investigations and litigation.
WilmerHale lawyers have decades of experience advising public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LayerX, a leading provider of browser-based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser (SEB) technology. With this acquisition, Akamai is taking a critical step in the evolution of its Zero Trust security portfolio and addressing one of the most urgent priorities for security leaders in 2026: AI usage control.

WilmerHale advised Akamai in the transaction.

The WilmerHale team was led by Hal Leibowitz and Mark Nylen and included Virginia Pavlick, Jamie Wolf, and Arpi Youssoufian, with support from Meghan Walsh, Ciara Baker, Stephen Gillespie, Kirk Nahra, Amanda Albert, Cole Swaffield, and Skyler Dykes.

Notice

We appreciate your interest in WilmerHale. While we are pleased to have you contact us, please keep in mind that merely contacting WilmerHale does not create an attorney-client relationship. Such a relationship will not arise until the Firm agrees in writing to represent you in connection with a particular matter. Importantly, unless and until this has occurred, you should not provide us with any confidential information, and we have no duty to keep confidential any information that we may receive from you. Thank you for your understanding.

I Accept Cancel