| LAIRD H. SIMONS III |
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Initial Public Offerings |
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Follow-On Offerings |
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Ongoing Securities Compliance |
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| Profile |
Mr. Simons concentrates his practice in initial public offerings (for both domestic and foreign corporations), follow-on offerings for already public companies and ongoing securities advice and counseling for public companies. He has worked on more than 80 initial public offerings for a wide range of high technology companies, including @Home, Cadence Design Systems, eBay, Electronic Arts, Glu Mobile, Intuit, Macromedia, NetScreen, Oracle, Symantec, Transmeta, VeriSign and VERITAS. He has also worked on more than 40 follow-on offerings for these and other companies.
Mr. Simons has represented a number of underwriters in initial public offerings and follow-on offerings including Cowen & Company, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, Deutsche Bank Securities, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Goldman Sachs & Co., Hambrecht & Quist, J. P. Morgan Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, NationsBanc Montgomery Securities, Needham & Company, Piper Jaffray & Co., RBC Capital Markets and Robertson Stephens, on offerings for companies such as DemandTec, Omniture, O2Micro, Pixar and SolarWinds.
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| Education |
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1974 Harvard Business School, M.B.A., with distinction, 1974 Haverford College, B.A., with honors, 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. Simons was Chair of the Securities Group for 18 years, member of the Executive Committee for eight years and Managing Partner for four years. He has co-chaired the Practising Law Institute’s multi-city program on initial public offerings for nearly 20 years and is a regular speaker on a variety of securities topics.
Mr. Simons' accolades include:
- one of Silicon Valley's top lawyers by San Jose magazine
- one of the top securities attorneys in the country in the 2006 - 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America
- one of the best lawyers in America in corporate law in 2006 by Corporate Counsel
- Northern California "Super Lawyer" for securities and corporate finance in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Law & Politics
- one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" from 2003 to 2006 by Chambers USA
- one of 12 "Dealmakers of the Year" in the United States in 1999 by The American Lawyer
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