– Firm Expands US Access and Support for UK Companies and Investors –

– Wilson Sonsini has represented more technology companies in venture financings, IPOs, and M&A deals than any other US law firm –

PALO ALTO, CA (August 1, 2018) - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, has officially opened its office in London, further expanding its capacity to offer US access and legal counsel to UK-based technology and life sciences companies, and extends the firm's practice into one of the world's top technology markets.

The firm's London office is located at 41 Old Street, in the heart of London's technology community. The office is led by Daniel Glazer, a Wilson Sonsini partner who heads the firm's US expansion practice, and who has represented UK-based companies as US counsel for more than 20 years.

Wilson Sonsini continues to support UK-based start-ups and scale-ups through all stages of their life cycle in the US—from US launch, expansion, and fundraising to US partnerships, M&As, and IPOs. The firm also will continue connecting UK-based companies and investors to its transatlantic network of capital providers, corporates, and advisors—leveraging the firm's experience in adding value to emerging companies and fostering the growth of tech ecosystems.

"Our firm has maintained its established position in the US as the leading law firm provider to innovative enterprises, dating back to Silicon Valley's formative years, because of our sustained success in helping emerging companies advance through the business life cycle," said Doug Clark, the firm's managing partner. "Our London office extends the many resources we offer to UK-based technology and life sciences companies to help them launch and scale their US operations, raise US capital, and complete cross-border transactions. This is a key milestone for the firm and we are very enthusiastic about the opportunities our London office opening offers to our clients and colleagues in London and throughout the UK."

Wilson Sonsini opened its London office at a time when investment in London technology companies has reached record levels. According to data compiled for London & Partners by PitchBook, venture capital investment into London's technology sector totaled more than $3.3 billion in 2017, nearly twice the 2016 total and up from roughly $100 million in 2010.

Wilson Sonsini has acted as US counsel to hundreds of UK and other European-based technology and life sciences companies and numerous UK and other European investors. Wilson Sonsini also regularly represents US investors seeking to deploy capital in UK and other European-based technology and life sciences companies.

"There's no better place to launch a tech or life sciences business than in the UK, and no better place to expand to than the US," said Glazer, who joined Wilson Sonsini in June 2016. "I am proud and honored to continue providing US support to the UK and the wider European technology and life sciences communities from Wilson Sonsini's Old Street base in London—the most exciting and progressive technology and start-up market in Europe."

Glazer is a Fellow at Tech Nation (formerly Tech City UK), an organization he has collaborated with since 2012, including on the development of a US expansion and fundraising online library. He was appointed a GlobalScot trade advisor by the Scottish Government, and worked with the US Department of Commerce to develop its "SelectUSA Tech" program to support non-US technology companies with US expansion. Glazer partners with Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, London Stock Exchange ELITE, Tech Nation Future Fifty, Entrepreneur First, RocketSpace, ICE, Seedcamp, the Mayor of London's International Business Programme, TechHub, the London Co-Investment Fund, Techstars, and similar organizations to support US expansion and fundraising efforts by UK companies. Glazer has been recognized by The American Lawyer as its "Transatlantic Innovator of the Year" and identified as one of London's top "International Connectors" by UK Tech News.

Including the office in London, Wilson Sonsini has offices in 15 locations worldwide. The firm has 11 offices in the US, including Palo Alto, the center of Silicon Valley; New York, the country's financial center; and Washington, D.C., the country's regulatory center. Wilson Sonsini's other US locations are in key technology and corporate markets, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Calif.; Boston, Mass.; Wilmington, Del.; Seattle, Wash.; and Austin, Texas. In addition to London, Wilson Sonsini has offices outside of the US in Brussels, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

About Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
For more than 50 years, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offered a broad range of services and legal disciplines focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. For more information, please visit www.wsgr.com.