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12.12.25
Greg Watts of Wilson Sonsini Releases Definitive Guide on Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
Gregory Watts, a partner at Wilson Sonsini, sheds light on one of corporate law’s most complex areas in his latest book, Directors' and Officers' Liability: Current Law, Recent Developments, Emerging Issues (Fourth Edition), published by the Practising Law Institute. Written for corporate counsel, private practitioners, and directors themselves, the book provides a comprehensive roadmap through the responsibilities, protections, and potential pitfalls facing directors and officers of public companies, combining current law with recent developments and emerging trends.
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12.11.25
Wilson Sonsini Recognized Among Leading Law Firms in 2025 GIR 100
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has been named among the leading global law firms in Global Investigations Review’s 2025 GIR 100 guide, profiling the best firms for companies and executives to call on during high-stakes corporate investigations. GIR’s research and editorial teams selected the top 100 firms handling multilayered and intricate investigations based on rigorous market research, data, submissions, and insights. The result is an in-depth survey of the best-performing investigations practices, specialist white-collar defense firms, and consulting businesses in the world.
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12.04.25
2025 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report
Wilson Sonsini’s 2025 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report reviews the corporate governance practices and disclosures of Silicon Valley’s largest public companies. The report includes information regarding board matters, officer matters, defensive measures, proxy statement disclosures, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability reporting, stockholder proposals, activism, and executive compensation of the SV150 companies.
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2.28.25
Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update, February 2025
We are pleased to share the February 2025 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters relevant to public and private companies internationally.
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12.04.24
2024 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report
Wilson Sonsini’s 2024 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report reviews the corporate governance practices and disclosures of the Valley's largest public companies between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The report includes information regarding board matters, officer matters, defensive measures, proxy statement disclosures, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability reporting, stockholder proposals, activism, and executive compensation of the SV150 companies.
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8.16.22
Wilson Sonsini Adds Former Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou to Fast-Growing Litigation Department
Christopher (Chris) Chiou has joined Wilson Sonsini's litigation department as a partner in the Los Angeles office. He joins the firm’s expanding trial and commercial litigation practices after serving as Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada.
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11.16.21
Wilson Sonsini Named Among World’s Leading Firms for Investigations
On November 10, 2021, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was named to the 2021 edition of the GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices published by Global Investigations Review. Based on extensive research, the publication selected 100 law firms and 12 investigations consultancies from around the world that handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations and related settlement negotiations or prosecutions of corporates and individuals.
The accompanying profile notes that the firm has “added to its investigations practice over the past year by recruiting big-name lawyers in New York and London,” and references several FCPA-related matters handled by the firm, including its representation of a group of shareholders in Africo Resources Limited who sued for restitution in an FCPA investigation against Och-Ziff, representation of several large cybersecurity companies in various FCPA investigations being conducted by the DOJ and SEC, representation of a computer scientist at a Chinese university who faced a charge of wire fraud conspiracy, and representation of witnesses in connection with an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption involving the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA. The profile also highlights the practices of partners Caz Hashemi, Tarek Helou, Leo Cunningham, and Moe Fodeman, and mentions the recent hires of Jessica Lonergan and Mike Casey, as well as the return of Beth George.
For more information on the 2021 GIR 100 recognition, please click here.
The accompanying profile notes that the firm has “added to its investigations practice over the past year by recruiting big-name lawyers in New York and London,” and references several FCPA-related matters handled by the firm, including its representation of a group of shareholders in Africo Resources Limited who sued for restitution in an FCPA investigation against Och-Ziff, representation of several large cybersecurity companies in various FCPA investigations being conducted by the DOJ and SEC, representation of a computer scientist at a Chinese university who faced a charge of wire fraud conspiracy, and representation of witnesses in connection with an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption involving the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA. The profile also highlights the practices of partners Caz Hashemi, Tarek Helou, Leo Cunningham, and Moe Fodeman, and mentions the recent hires of Jessica Lonergan and Mike Casey, as well as the return of Beth George.
For more information on the 2021 GIR 100 recognition, please click here.
News Articles
8.02.21
Wilson Sonsini Named a “Delaware Powerhouse” by Law360
Wilson Sonsini was one of five firms honored as 2021 “Delaware Powerhouses” by Law360 as part of the publication’s 2021 Regional Powerhouses feature. According to Law360, Delaware has long been a special arena among the nation’s centers for bankruptcy, patent, corporate, and complex commercial litigation, and these five firms “consistently excell[ed] even after the global pandemic rewrote practice and courtroom playbooks.”
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6.20.19
Delaware Supreme Court Offers Guidance on Board Oversight Obligations
On June 18, 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an opinion addressing the fiduciary obligation of directors and officers to exercise proper oversight over the corporation and to implement a system of controls to ensure the corporation's legal compliance.
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5.01.19
DOJ Issues Guidance for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
May 1, 2019
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski announced the release of an updated version of the Criminal Division's "The Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs" during a keynote address at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative 2019 Annual Impact Conference.