Taft is pleased to have acted as legal counsel to SpiderOak, Inc. in the company’s $16.4 million Series C funding round. The investment round was led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Method Capital and OCA Ventures participated in the round.

SpiderOak is a U.S.-based collaboration tool, online backup, and file hosting service that allows users to access, synchronize, and share data using a cloud-based server. Read the release here.

Taft’s legal team included Michael Roberts, Abe Wehbi, LeRoy Ricksy, and Rebecca Smith.