Larry Sonsini still remembers when two recent college grads named Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim walked into his office looking for legal advice about a computer server company they wanted to start in 1982. “I liked them right away,” Sonsini said this week. “They thought big.”
Twenty-seven years later, Sonsini spent last weekend helping finalize a deal to sell that company, Sun Microsystems Inc., to Oracle Corp. for $7.38 billion in cash. Announced Monday, the deal ended Sun’s search for a buyer, and its quarter-century run as a mainstay client for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati .
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