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Firm: Fenwick & West is a firm of over 275 attorneys.
We provide a full range of legal services, with a special
emphasis on the legal and business issues facing technology companies. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. Fenwick
& West provides comprehensive legal services to companies from inception throughout the life of the corporation.
Mission: Our primary mission is to form effective partnerships with our clients and to provide our legal services with
superior client service. Many of our clients have exceeded their own expectations in creating and building successful enterprises; we
strive to do the same in the lawyering we provide for our clients. It is important to our practice that we not only provide first-rate
innovative legal services, but that we also serve as effective business partners with our clients.
History: Established in the heart of Silicon Valley in 1972,
the firm was founded by four visionary attorneys who moved to Palo Alto
to establish a practice in the geographic area they believed was destined to
become the technology epicenter. The Firm's history is inextricably entwined
with the growth of technology in Silicon Valley: Fenwick & West incorporated
Apple Computer in 1976 and took Oracle public in 1986. Since then, the firm
has represented leading technology companies and underwriters in numerous
high
profile IPOs and led many
landmark
M&A transactions including
the largest Internet merger in history (VeriSign's $21 billion acquisition
of Network Solutions) and the largest software merger in history (Symantec's
$13 billion acquisition of VERITAS). Our intellectual property practice is
continuously on the cutting edge of legal issues arising from emerging technologies,
from the pioneering of shrinkwrap license agreements in the 1970s, to the creation
of software development clean rooms in the 1980s, to being one of the first
firms to advise and litigate numerous Internet-related IP issues that arose
in the 1990s, including privacy, digital copyright, software patent and domain
name issues. Among many other notable technology lawsuits, the Firm's litigators
successfully defended Amazon.com's 1-ClickŪ patent just in time for the 1999
holiday shopping season and successfully defended Elan Pharmaceuticals'
patents on transgenic mice.
Rankings
Fenwick & West is the second largest law firm in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Business Times), the second most profitable law firm in the Bay Area (San Francisco Daily Journal) and the 15th largest law firm in California (California Law Business). In addition, the Firm's practice groups are continually ranked among the top in the United States, including one of only eight "first-tier" U.S. law firms in tax in 2008 (International Tax Review), the top law firm in the United States for technology sector mergers and acquisitions (MergerMarket), the fourth most active U.S. law firm in helping IT client raise venture capital (Dow Jones), one of the top five West Coast firms in both IP litigation and IP protection (Managing Intellectual Property), and one of the top ten Computer/Software patent law firms in the United States (PatentRatings LLC). Recently, Vault ranked Fenwick the number 3 technology firm, and among the 100 most prestigious firms in the nation. The firm was recently awarded Tax Litigation Firm of the Year for the Americas and Tax Firm of the Year for San Francisco by (International Tax Review).
Areas of Practice: Our practice includes: antitrust and unfair competition, appellate, complex business litigation, copyright,
corporate and securities, employment and labor, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, IP litigation, life sciences, mergers
and acquisitions, patent prosecution, privacy and information security, securities litigation, start-ups and venture capital, domestic and
international tax, tax controversies, technology transactions, and trademark.
Firm Media Contacts:
Gordon K. Davidson
Firm Chairman
Fenwick & West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
phone: 650.988.8500
e-mail: gdavidson@fenwick.com
James Stapleton
Chief Marketing Officer
Fenwick & West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
phone: 650.335.7641
e-mail: jstapleton@fenwick.com
Outside Media Contact:
Elizabeth Lampert
Elizabeth Lampert PR
phone: 925.932.4420
e-mail: lampert@elizabethlampertpr.com
Web site: www.elizabethlampertpr.com
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