| ROBERT A. FREEDMAN |
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Public and Private Offerings |
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Securities Law Compliance |
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Mergers and Acquisitions |
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General Corporate Advice |
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| Profile |
Mr. Freedman practices in the Boise, Seattle and Silicon Valley offices.
Mr. Freedman represents semiconductor, hardware, ecommerce, software, clean technology and life sciences companies. His practice focuses on leading initial public offerings and follow-on offerings of equity and debt, and advising boards and management on corporate and securities law compliance and disclosure matters. He has represented issuers and underwriters in over 60 securities offerings by public companies. Mr. Freedman also concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and private financings.
Mr. Freedman has represented the following clients in merger and acquisition and tender offer transactions:
| | Macromedia, Inc.’s $3.4 billion merger with Adobe, Inc. | | | | Cisco Systems, Inc.’s $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx Communications, Inc. | | | | Data Domain, Inc.’s $2.4 billion acquisition by EMC Corporation | | | | Zappos.com, Inc.’s $847 million acquisition by Amazon.com, Inc. | |
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| Education |
Stanford Law School, J.D., with distinction, 1993 Bowdoin College, A.B., biochemistry and history, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1987
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| Admitted to Practice |
Member of the state bars of California, Idaho and Washington. |
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| Additional Information |
Prior to law school, Mr. Freedman was a loan officer for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York. |
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| Representative Clients |
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Concur Technologies, Inc. |
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Data Domain, Inc. |
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DexCom, Inc. |
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Exodus Communications, Inc. |
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Handspring, Inc. |
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IntelliScience Corporation |
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J.P. Morgan Securities |
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Keynetics Inc. |
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Lehman Brothers Inc. |
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Macromedia, Inc. |
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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. |
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Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. |
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Micron Electronics, Inc. |
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Opsware Inc. |
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Planet Payment, Inc. |
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Shutterfly, Inc. |
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Thomas Weisel Partners |
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ZymoGenetics, Inc. |
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