SEATTLE (November 20, 2025) - Perkins Coie is pleased to have advised Microsoft on a new strategic partnership with Anthropic that will provide Microsoft’s enterprise customers with broader access to Anthropic’s rapidly growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure.
As part of the new partnership, Microsoft has also committed to investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic have announced new strategic partnerships to broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. NVIDIA will power Claude on Microsoft Azure and Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt. For further information, see Microsoft’s corporate blog here.
The Perkins Coie advisory team included Mergers & Acquisitions practice partner Arian Galavis, partner Gina Eiben, firmwide co-chair of the M&A practice, and Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice associate Jake Hays, as well as intellectual property and commercial transactions partners David Daggett and Heather Karell, and technology transactions and privacy associates Lily Tran and Rachel Merritt.
