SAN FRANCISCO — LinkedIn Corp. may have had the upper hand in negotiating its $26.2 billion sale to Microsoft.

That’s at least one way to interpret a Bloomberg Law data analysis that found the language in the merger agreement appeared to be the work of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the firm representing LinkedIn. That’s unusual, say analysts and deal lawyers, as LinkedIn is the target.

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