Kilpatrick Stockton’s Ben Barkley got the first draft of the merger agreement memorializing a planned $110 million acquisition of his client, EyeWonder Inc., by Limelight Networks Inc., at 6:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

“I thought this deal would go to Christmas Eve,” he says now, recalling that he spent hours at his cabin in the North Georgia mountains looking over the 100-plus-page agreement. His team got lucky: The deal closed on Dec. 21-just in time to free up the lawyers for the holiday weekend.

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