| EXPERIENCE: Craig Sherman is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on corporate and securities laws, representing companies, venture capital firms, and investments banks in private placements and public offerings. Craig also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and domestic and international joint ventures. Craig began private practice in 1989 with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Paris, and joined Perkins Coie in Seattle in January 1995. He became a director in the Kirkland office of Venture Law Group in December 1996 and was managing director of the Kirkland office from May 2000 until August 2002, when he joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He currently serves as a member of the firm's Policy Committee. In addition to English, Craig is fluent in French and knowledgeable in Italian, Spanish, and Korean.
SELECT MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: - 4thpass in its sale to Motorola
- AdRelevance in its sale to Media Metrix
- Atom Films in its sale to Shockwave
- Avogadro in its sale to Openwave Systems
- CapitalStream in its sale to HCL
- Intelligent Results in its sale to First Data Corporation
- iShip.com in its sale to Stamps.com
- Marketwave in its sale to Accrue Software
- M:Metrics in its sale to comScore
- Pi in its sale to EMC
- Positronic in its sale to eBay
- Pure Networks in its sale to Cisco
- Rendition Networks in its sale to Opsware
- SingingFish in its sale to Thomson Consumer Electronics
- Viathan in its sale to Dantz Development
- Wavtrace in its sale to Harris Corp.
- Who's Calling in its acquisitions of Clickpath and StandardCall
- Who's Calling in its sale to Vista Equity
- XYPOINT in its sale to TeleCommunication Systems
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continued | - Zango in its acquisition of Hotbar
SELECT CLIENTS: Craig's current corporate clients include: - 5to1
- ADAPTIX
- Ascentium
- Billing Revolution
- BuddyTV
- Bungie
- Cozi
- Daptiv
- Dashwire
- DocuSign
- ecohaus
- ePartners
- GoAhead
- GotVoice
- High Gear Media
- Inrix
- Isilon Systems
- Likewise
- mInfo
- Modiv Media
- Mpire
- Omeros
- Ontela
- PayScale
- RadioFrame Networks
- SchemaLogic
- Seventymm
- Smilebox
- UIEvolution
- Vantos
- Verdiem
- Visible
- Widevine
- WildTangent
- Yapta
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continued | Craig's recent venture capital clients include: - Foundry Group
- Frazier Healthcare Ventures
- Frazier Technology Ventures
- Greylock Partners
- Ignition Partners
- Madrona Venture Group
- Northwest Venture Associates
- OVP Venture Partners
- Trilogy Partners
- Voyager Capital
EDUCATION: - J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989
Cum Laude; Articles Editor, Harvard Human Rights Yearbook - M.A., International Political Studies, and B.A., International Relations and French, Stanford University, 1985
With Honors - Certificat d'Etudes Politiques, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France, 1983
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: - Board Member, University of Washington Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Former Board Member, Northwest Entrepreneur Network
- Honorary Board Member, Daniel Pearl Foundation
HONORS: - Selected for inclusion in the 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions of Best Lawyers in America
- Recognized in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which described him as "one of the best venture capital attorneys on the West Coast"
- Named a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law & Politics magazine, 2003-2009
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ADMISSIONS: - State Bar of New York
- State Bar of Washington
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