JEFFREY D. SAPER
JEFFREY D. SAPERVice Chairman
Corporate Finance
Corporate Law & Governance
Entrepreneurial Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
Jeffrey Saper is vice chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the largest law firm in Silicon Valley specializing in the representation of technology and emerging growth companies.
Jeff specializes in public and private financings of technology and other emerging growth companies, as well as the representation of leading investment banks and corporate issuers in connection with public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in more than 200 public offerings, and has served as company counsel with respect to the initial public offerings of such prominent companies as Activision, Apple, Infosys, Jive Software, LinkedIn, Micron, NetSuite, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, and Splunk. In addition, he has served as lead underwriters' counsel on numerous public offerings, including those of Active Networks, Ancestry.com, Cavium, Cybersource, Extreme Networks, Guidewire Software, Imperva, Infoblox, Macrovision, Pandora Media, Inc., and Riverstone Networks. Jeff also has extensive expertise in cross-border corporate transactions, including the $640 million acquisition of Dr. Solomon (U.K.) by Network Associates and the initial public offering by Infosys Technologies, Ltd., the first U.S. initial public offering by an Indian company.
Jeff has spoken on a variety of corporate securities issues, including the public offering process as well as related disclosure and corporate governance obligations of publicly traded issuers.
SELECT FINANCIAL CLIENTS:
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Highland Capital Partners
- J.P. Morgan
- Morgan Stanley
- Sequoia Capital
- Trident Capital
- Allconnect, Inc.
- Altair Engineering, Inc.
- Barracuda Networks Inc.
- Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
- Emailvision Holdings Ltd.
- Gigamon Systems LLC
- Go Daddy
- GTNX, Inc.
- Infosys Technologies, Ltd.
- Inspirato
- Jive Software, Inc.
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Qualys, Inc.
- RingCentral, Inc.
- Splunk
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- J.D., New York University School of Law
- B.A., New York University
With Highest Honors in History
- Anti-Defamation League National Commission
- Honored by the Daily Journal as one of the "Top 100 Lawyers in California" for 2011 and 2012
- Honored as an "Attorney of the Year" by The Recorder in recognition of his notable achievements in 2011, including his involvement in numerous initial public offerings
- Named among Lawdragon's "500 Leading Lawyers in America" for 2011
- Recognized by Chambers and Partners in the 2004-2013 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, with respondents describing him as a "highly prized rainmaker" and an attorney who "commands respect for his financing and transactional work," as well as for his "deep cross-border transactional experience"
- Selected for inclusion in the 2006-2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America
- Named in Northern California Super Lawyers, 2004-2012
- State Bar of California
- State Bar of New York
