About Seattle

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Seattle office provides clients in the Pacific Northwest with legal services specifically designed to meet the needs of technology, life sciences, and other growth companies. The Seattle office represents a broad range of clients at all stages of development, from start-up businesses to mature and long-established corporations.

The Seattle office focuses particularly on facilitating the corporate formation of technology and growth start-ups; negotiating venture capital financings; and advising on complex technology and business transactions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, including those involved in project development and finance. Our attorneys also represent companies and bankers in initial public offerings and secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions, employment law matters, and complex corporate and governance issues; provide advice on protection of intellectual property; and defend companies and individuals in securities and corporate governance litigation, litigation of complex commercial disputes, and internal and SEC-related corporate investigations.

The Seattle office serves clients in multiple growth industries such as clean technology and renewable energy, software, the Internet, telecommunications, networking, life sciences, financial services, and business services throughout the Pacific Northwest. Representative clients include Action Engine, ADAPTIX, Aventail, Calypso Medical, drugstore.com, ePartners, InfoSpace, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Isilon, Nighthawk Radiology Services, Nura, Pure Networks, RealNetworks, Sharebuilder, Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Western Wireless, Who's Calling, Wild Tangent, and World Wide Packets.

The seamless integration of all Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati offices enables high-quality service on a local level while leveraging the institutional experience and resources of the entire firm. Our proprietary collaborative systems allow our attorneys immediate access to the firm's collective expertise and knowledge so that they can respond quickly with effective solutions for our clients.