Wilson Sonsini won the prize of the year’s most-anticipated IPO, that of Twitter, which was led by partner Katharine Martin. Wilson also handled the IPO of FireEye and, a few months later, its acquisition of Mandiant, a transformative deal in the security space that gave an immediate lift to FireEye. It also handled the LinkedIn’s $1.2 billion follow-on offering.
But Wilson’s corporate practice isn’t just about hot tech names and IPOs. It advised client Chevron Corp. in adopting and amending the company’s forum-selection bylaws and then representing the company in a test aimed at curbing multiforum shareholder litigation. In June 2013, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a decision upholding the validity of forum-selection bylaws adopted by the directors of Chevron and FedEx Corp. that designate Delaware courts the exclusive forum for lawsuits concerning internal corporate governance matters, providing companies with a potentially powerful weapon to ward off duplicative litigation.
