Since the early days, when Facebook was just a startup run by a couple of college kids, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lawyers have guided the social networking Web site in its business dealings. But last fall, just before Microsoft put $240 million into Facebook, valuing it at $15 billion, the company brought on Fenwick & West to do its corporate work. Exactly why Facebook handed its corporate work to Fenwick is unclear, but a change as sudden as Facebook's is rare.
February 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A lot has changed for high-flying Facebook in the last year — including its outside corporate lawyers.
Since the early days, when the social networking Web site was just a startup run by a couple of college kids, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lawyers from Menlo Park, Calif., had guided Facebook in its business dealings.
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