SEATTLE, Wash. (September 23, 2014) - Perkins Coie represents Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq “MSFT”) as U.S. counsel and primary intellectual property counsel in connection with its $2.5 billion acquisition of the Stockholm-based game developer Mojang, the creator of the “Minecraft” video game franchise.

Led by Seattle partner Kirk A. Soderquist and Los Angeles partner Don Karl, Co-Chairs of Perkins Coie’s Interactive Entertainment practice, the Perkins Coie team also included Seattle partners Patchen Haggerty and Maurice Pirio, Los Angeles counsel Ron Koo, Chicago associates Lauren Matecki and Jon Shepard and Seattle associates David Cromwell and Reagan Roth.

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