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For more than four decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation.
Fenwick & West was founded in 1972 in the heart of Silicon Valley—before “Silicon Valley” existed—by four visionary lawyers who left a top-tier New York law firm to pursue their shared belief that technology would revolutionize the business world and to pioneer the legal work for those technological innovations. In order to be most effective, they decided they needed to move to a location close to primary research and technology development. These four attorneys opened their first office in downtown Palo Alto, and Fenwick became one of the first technology law firms in the world.
From our founding in 1972, Fenwick has been committed to promoting diversity and inclusion both within our firm and throughout the legal profession. For almost four decades, the firm has actively promoted an open and inclusive work environment and committed significant resources towards improving our diversity efforts at every level.
At Fenwick, we are proud of our commitment to the community and to our culture of making a difference in the lives of individuals and organizations in the communities where we live and work. We recognize that providing legal services is not only an essential part of our professional responsibility, but also an excellent opportunity for our attorneys to gain valuable practical experience, learn new areas of the law and contribute to the community.
Year after year, Fenwick & West is honored for excellence in the legal profession. Many of our attorneys are recognized as leaders in their respective fields, and our Corporate, Tax, Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups consistently receive top national and international rankings, including:
- Nearly 15 percent of Fenwick partners named America's Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers USA and Chambers Global
- Selected as a "Go-To" law firm by in-house legal departments at Fortune 500 companies in Corporate Counsel magazine
- Named to The National Law Journal's inaugural "Intellectual Property Hot List" for outstanding patent, copyright, trademark and IP litigation services
We take sustainability very seriously at Fenwick. Like many of our clients, we are adopting policies that reduce consumption and waste, and improve efficiency. By using technologies developed by a number of our cleantech clients, we are at the forefront of implementing sustainable policies and practices that minimize environmental impact. In fact, Fenwick has earned recognition in several areas as one of the top US law firms for implementing sustainable business practices.
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At Fenwick, we have a passion for excellence and innovation that mirrors our client base. Our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes—allowing us to deliver best-in-class legal services more effectively.
Mountain View Office
Silicon Valley Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
650.988.8500
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San Francisco, CA 94104
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1191 Second Avenue
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Seattle, WA 98101
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Mr. Cogen is Co-Chair of the Firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and is resident in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, strategic and commercial transactions, corporate counseling and financings. He has served as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
Mr. Cogen's transactional experience includes over $70 billion of completed mergers, acquisitions and divestitures including cross-border transactions in the networking, software, life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, semiconductor, internet, computer hardware and consumer products industries; public company tender offers; and private placements of equity and debt securities. Mr. Cogen also counsels companies on corporate governance matters, takeover defenses and strategic partnering arrangements.
Mr. Cogen's technology transactions include:
- Over 90 deals for Cisco Systems, including:
- Scientific-Atlanta, for $6.9 billion
- NDS Group, for $5 billion
- WebEx Communications, for $3.2 billion
- Starent Networks, for $2.9 billion
- VeriSign's $21 billion merger with Network Solutions
- Excite's $7.2 billion merger with @Home Corporation
- NetScreen Technologies' $4.3 billion merger with Juniper Networks
- Macromedia's $3.4 billion merger with Adobe Systems
- Elantec Semiconductor's $1.4 billion acquisition by Intersil Corporation
- Symantec's $830 million acquisition of Altiris
Mr. Cogen’s life sciences transactions include:
- Agilent Technologies’ $1.5 billion acquisition of Varian
- Connetics' $930 million merger with Stiefel Laboratories
- Vysis’ $365 million acquisition by Abbott Laboratories
- Peplin’s $287.5 million acquisition by LEO Pharma
- Agilent Technologies’ $250 million acquisition of Stratagene
Mr. Cogen was named by Global M&A Network as "M&A Lawyer of the Year" for 2010. The Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal named him as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in the State of California, one of only five northern California "Dealmakers" included in the list. Mr. Cogen is listed as "Highly Recommended" in M&A and Corporate Finance in PLC Which Lawyer? and is ranked in Corporate Law/M&A by Chambers USA, each an independent listing of leading attorneys in specialist practice areas worldwide. He was named by Best Lawyers as one of the Best Lawyers in America in Mergers & Acquisitions Law, by Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines as a Northern California "Super Lawyer," by Bay Area Lawyer magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in the Bay Area, by AlwaysOn and KPMG as Top Dealmaker-Lawyer, and by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in the United States.
Mr. Cogen has also served as Director of Intergovernmental Relations for the New York City Planning Commission. He has lectured on transactional law at Columbia University Law School, Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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