| EXPERIENCE: Troy Foster is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate and securities group. His practice touches a wide range of corporate and entrepreneurial clients, including emerging growth companies, venture capital firms, public companies, and investment banks. Troy's venture practice is primarily focused in the life sciences and clean energy areas, where his clients include Angelica Pharmaceuticals, Clean Power Finance Company, Free Space Solar, Hydra DX, Intradigm Corporation (now Silence Therapeutics), Limerick BioPharma, and Sutro BioPharma. In addition, Troy has represented several venture firms in connection with their investments in the life sciences sector, including ALTA Partners, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, GBS Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, and Versant Ventures. Troy is also active in the digital media and Internet sector, where he represents Evryx Technologies, Madvision Entertainment, Playmaker Mobile, Pragmatic Solutions, Soul Train Holdings, TrueCar, Zadspace, and Zag.com. Prior to joining the firm, Troy clerked for the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1999 to 2000.
EDUCATION: - J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1999
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Senior Editor and Staff Member, Columbia Law Review; Contributing Editor, National Black Law Journal - B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
SELECT TRANSACTIONS: Represented the following companies in mergers or acquisitions: - Intradigm in its merger with Silence Therapeutics
- Encentuate in its merger with IBM
- MadVision in its acquisition of the Soul Train assets from Don Cornelius Productions
- Setagon in its merger with Medtronic Vascular
- Intervideo in its merger with Corel
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continued | - ParAllele in its merger with Affymetrix
- InterVideo in its acquisition of Ulead
- yellowpages.com in its merger with a subsidiary of BellSouth and SBC
- Hewlett-Packard in its acquisition of Novadigm
- Crystal Decisions in its merger with Business Objects
- Documentum in its merger with EMC
- Synopsys in its acquisition of inSilicon
- E-Stamp in its merger with Learn2.com
- Silicon Valley Group in its merger with ASML
- Viant in its merger with divine
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: - "Using Early Exercise Stock Options to Attract, Motivate, and Retain Employees of Emerging Growth Companies: Pitfalls and Practical Considerations," Business Law News, Issue 3, 2006
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