| GORDON K. DAVIDSON |
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Corporate Governance |
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Start-Up Companies |
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Venture Capital Financings |
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Public Securities Offerings |
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Mergers and Acquisitions |
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Strategic Alliances |
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| Profile |
Mr. Davidson is a partner in the Corporate Group and Chairman of Fenwick & West LLP. Mr. Davidson advises high technology companies, including networking, computer software and electronics companies, as well as clean technology and life sciences companies. Mr. Davidson’s clients range from start-ups to Fortune 1000 companies. He has worked on over 30 public offerings and has represented boards of directors, audit committees and executives in numerous special investigations. His publicly traded clients have included:
| | @Home Corporation | | | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | | | Cisco Systems, Inc. | | | Cooper & Chyan Technology, Inc. | | | Data Domain, Inc. | | | DexCom Inc. | | | Diamond Foods, Inc. | | | Edify Corporation | | | Elantec Semiconductor, Inc. | | | Electronic Arts Inc. | | | Exodus Communications, Inc. | | | FormFactor, Inc. | | | Genelabs Technologies, Inc. | | | HNC Software, Inc. | | | Intuit Inc. | | | InVision Technologies, Inc. | | | KANA Software, Inc. | | | Macromedia, Inc. | | | Nuance Communications Inc. | | | ONI Systems Corp. | | | Opsware Inc. | | | Oracle Corporation | | | Shopping.com, Ltd. | | | Shutterfly, Inc. | | | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | | | Symantec Corporation | | | Synopsys, Inc. | | | Transmeta Corporation | | | VeriSign, Inc. | | | VERITAS Software Corporation |
Mr. Davidson also advises investors and investment banks, including Barclays Global Investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Morgan Stanley and Sequoia Capital.
He has also acted as lead counsel on over 100 mergers and acquisitions valued at more than $50 billion, including:
| | $17 billion acquisition of Network Solutions Inc. by VeriSign Inc. | | | | $13 billion acquisition of VERITAS Software by Symantec Corporation | | | | $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. by Cisco Systems, Inc. | | | | $6.5 billion acquisition of GlobalCenter by Exodus Communications Inc. | | | | $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. by Adobe, Inc. | | | | $2.5 billion acquisition of Seagate Software by VERITAS Software Corporation | | | | $2.4 billion acquisition of Data Domain, Inc. by EMC Corporation | | | | $1.4 billion acquisition of Digital Insight by Intuit Inc. | | | | $1.2 billion acquisition of Ocular Sciences, Inc. by The Cooper Companies | |
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| Education |
Stanford Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1974 Stanford University, M.S. in electrical engineering, computer systems, National Science Foundation Fellow, 1971 Stanford University, B.S. in electrical engineering, Phi Beta Kappa, 1970
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| Admitted to Practice |
Member of the State Bar of California. |
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| Additional Information |
Mr. Davidson has spoken on corporate governance issues at the Stanford Directors College, lectured on venture capital investments at the Stanford Law School, the Stanford Business School and the Haas Business School, and chaired the Practising Law Institute programs on Private Placements and Mergers & Acquisitions of High Technology Companies.
Mr. Davidson is a member of the State Bar of California. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1970 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and received an M.S. in computer systems from Stanford in 1971. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1974 and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Prior to and during law school, Mr. Davidson worked as a computer systems engineer at Stanford Research Institute and at Measurex Corporation. Following law school, he was a law clerk for Judge Ben C. Duniway in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Mr. Davidson's awards and recognitions include:
- first tier of Corporate/M&A attorneys in the U.S. by Chambers USA
- "San Francisco Area Best Lawyers Securities Lawyer of the Year" for 2010 by Best Lawyers magazine
- one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal in 2000 and 2006
- one of the top 100 venture capital deal makers by Forbes magazine’s Midas List in 2001 and 2004 - 2007
- one of the 100 best lawyers in Northern California and one of three leading lawyers in Silicon Valley by Super Lawyers magazine in August 2008
- one of the 10 best corporate lawyers in California by California Lawyer magazine in August 2004
- one of "100 People Who Changed Our World" by Upside magazine in October 2001
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