Latham & Watkins Advises AMD on Acquisition of MK1 to Boost AI Inference Performance and Efficiency

Latham & Watkins LLP represented AMD in the acquisition of MK1. AMD has finalized the acquisition of MK1, a company known for high-speed inference and reasoning-based AI technologies optimized for large-scale deployments. MK1’s Flywheel technology, which is optimized for AMD hardware, currently serves more than 1 trillion tokens per day. The MK1 team will join the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group and contribute to the advancement of AMD’s high-speed inference capabilities and enterprise AI software stack. The transaction is a key milestone in AMD’s strategy to enhance AI performance and efficiency by combining MK1’s software innovations with AMD’s compute capabilities. Latham & Watkins LLP represented AMD with a team composed by: Bay Area partners Mark Bekheit and Tad Freese, associates Christopher Lim, Daniel Gutmann, Kelsey MacKinnon, and Sabine Dahi (corporate team); Bay Area partner Grace M. Lee, with associate Derek Gumm (tax matters); Bay Area partners James Metz and James Robinson, with associate Ellie Graham (executive compensation, employment and benefits); Houston partner Robert Brown, with associates Stuart Cobb and Sarah Zahedi (data privacy matters); and Bay Area partner Anthony Klein, with associates Andrew Abokhair and Saúl Aguirre-Villarreal (intellectual property matters).

Latham & Watkins Advises AMD on Acquisition of MK1 to Boost AI Inference Performance and Efficiency

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