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• Thriller™ Publishing/Games Appoints Top Investment Bank and Law Firm to Its Growth Team

  - 2008-05-14

  AUSTIN, Texas -- Thriller Publishing Inc., a game publisher of Single Player, retail, and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, announces the addition of a leading investment banking firm and a top technology/entertainment law firm to the Thriller team to assist with the company's next-stage strategic growth initiatives. WWC Securities LLC has...

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• Larry W. Sonsini Joins Tesla Motors Board of Directors

  - 2008-05-13

  SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Larry W. Sonsini, Chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has been elected to the board of directors of Tesla Motors, manufacturer of the breakthrough Tesla Roadster high-performance electric vehicle. Mr. Sonsini has gained international recognition for his expertise in the areas of corporate law,...

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• Leading Fund Services Attorneys Join Goodwin Procter's Practice in Palo Alto

  - 2007-10-03

  Firm Underscores Commitment to Serving Venture Capital and Private Equity Clients; Continues Momentum in California BOSTON -- Goodwin Procter LLP, one of the nation's leading law firms, today announced the addition of partners Jonathan Axelrad, Robert S. Fore, and Gerald G. Chacon, Jr., preeminent lawyers in the area of...

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• DFJ, Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham Ventures Host First Annual East Coast Venture Challenge

  - 2007-05-03

  University Entrepreneurs to Compete for $250,000 in Seed Venture Funding NEW YORK -- Leading early-stage venture firms DFJ and its affiliates Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham today announced the first ever DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge. Entrepreneurs from all eight Ivy League schools, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon...

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• Legal powerhouse inks 47,000 s/f deal at 1301 Sixth

  - 2006-04-12

  Further demonstrating the recent expansion trend by law firms throughout the city, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has signed a new, long-term lease for approximately 47,700 s/f at Equity Office's 1301 Avenue of the Americas. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is relocating from Tower 49 to 1301 Avenue of...

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• Omniture Appoints Former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Attorney as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

  - 2005-12-28

  Omniture, the largest and fastest-growing provider of on-demand Web analytics and online marketing services, today announced the appointment of Shawn Lindquist as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Shawn will report directly to Josh James, CEO and co-founder of Omniture, and will be responsible for all legal aspects of...

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• Worldview Expands Investment Team, Adds General Partner; Irwin Gross, Co-Founder of Wilson, Sonsini IP Strategy Practice, Joins Worldview Team

  - 2004-07-27

  PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Worldview Technology Partners, a leading technology venture capital firm, today announced that Irwin Gross, formerly with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, has joined the firm as a General Partner focused on investments in the software and semiconductor markets. Gross co-founded and built Wilson, Sonsini's intellectual property...

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• Technology Mergers

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  It is natural for businesspeople, and even for competition lawyers, to worry less about small, low visibility mergers. If the deal is not even reportable and certainly if it already has been consummated, the antitrust risk traditionally has been negligible. It is presumed that companies with modest revenues or unfinished...

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• Premier Law Firm in California's Silicon Valley Plans Layoffs.

  - 2002-08-15

  By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 15--Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of Silicon Valley's premier law firms for tech companies, plans to lay off 100 administrative and support workers and an undetermined number of...

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• San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Wiretap Column.

  - 2002-03-08

  By Peter Delevett, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 8--Believe it or not, there's a wrinkle in the valley's biggest corporate soap opera -- the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer -- that hasn't been beaten to death...

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