Welcome to the initial annual Technology M&A Review. This book’s goal is to both highlight the similarities and differences between technology M&A and ‘normal’ M&A, without taking too much time to try to define what technology and normal are in that context. One of its unstated premises is that because of technology’s importance, effective technology lawyering in M&A necessarily involves and requires a broad set of legal skills across many practice areas; and that requirement will likely increase as governments and interest groups from all spectrums focus on the sector.