Mountain View, CA (February 18, 2014)– Fenwick & West is pleased to announce that partners Gordon Davidson and Ted Wang have been named among “California's leading private equity and emerging companies lawyers” by the Daily Journal.
Start-up and venture capital partner Ted Wang“has worked with some of the world's most innovative startups – including Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Dropbox Inc., Sonos Inc., Path Inc., Flixster Inc., Square Inc. and Model N Inc., which went public this year,” according to the Daily Journal. Notable in 2013, the profile says, was his representation of Twitter during a private tender offer led by BlackRock and his representation of long-time client Model N through its initial public offering.
“To sum up how in-demand he is, one need only look at informational sharing site Quora, which has a thread titled: ‘How do we get Ted Wang of Fenwick & West to be our lawyer?’,” the Daily Journal added.
"I just love working with entrepreneurs," Wang told the Daily Journal. "People are always focused on deals, but I really like to help and mentor young companies."
The Daily Journal added that Wang “broke new legal ground” when he launched the “Series Seed” documents, a set of flexible legal and financial forms available at no cost to entrepreneurs to use in seed-stage deals. Wang’s goal with the documents was to streamline the seed financing process, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start a company.
"The idea was to give something back,” he said. “The startup community has been really good to me and I just wanted to help that ecosystem.”
Fellow honoree corporate partner Gordon Davidson worked on five initial public offerings and a $3.8 billion follow-on offering for client Facebook in 2013. He also represented Spreadtrum in its $1.78 billion going private acquisition by Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd., an affiliate of Tsinghua University, which Davidson compares to the “MIT of China” in the Daily Journal profile.
"There have been maybe 150 China IPOs over the last 10 years and, in the last two years, 20 or 30 of them have gone private," Davidson told the Daily Journal. "I think that there will be more of these Chinese-based companies reacquired by Chinese entities, either by the government or through private equity funds."
"It's an example of China becoming more of a sophisticated technology finance market," he added.
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