McAfee Inc. of Santa Clara sells anti-virus, security and encryption software for home computers and businesses. McAfee has 6,150 employees and annual revenues of about $2 billion. The company was founded in 1989 and went public in 1992 (NYSE: MFE). In 2006 the company agreed to pay $50 million to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting practices.
LEGAL TEAM
McAfee’s 15 in-house attorneys are part of a 36-person legal team that includes contract negotiators whose work is reviewed by in-house counsel. Most of the legal team works in Plano, Texas, where most of the company’s operations are based. The only lawyers at corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley are General Counsel Mark Cochran and his mergers-and-acquisitions attorney, Daniel Vaughn. Cochran also oversees an in-house lawyer who works with McAfee’s engineering and development team in Oregon.
