Julia Reigel

Julia Reigel

Partner Emeritus

A Trusted Advisor

Julia counseled public company clients and acted as general outside counsel for private companies, serving as a day-to-day primary support contact for most of her clients.
Corporate Counseling and Transactional Experience

Her corporate counseling activities included advising boards and issuers on fiduciary matters, disclosure questions, and compliance issues, as well as counseling directors and issuers on corporate governance matters. She also assisted clients with venture financings, M&A transactions, public offerings, and private placements of public equity or convertible debt.

Julia Reigel retired as a partner from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in 2024.

During her time at the firm, she counseled public company clients and acted as general outside counsel for private companies. She also served as a day-to-day primary support and client contact for most of her clients. Julia represented issuers, strategic investors, and venture capital funds in venture financings. Her corporate counseling activities included advising boards of directors and issuers on fiduciary matters, disclosure questions, and compliance issues, as well as counseling directors and issuers on corporate governance matters. Julia assisted clients in mergers, acquisitions, and spin-off transactions on both the buy and sell side. She also represented issuers in public offerings and private placements of public equity or convertible debt.

Prior to attending law school, Julia served in several different economic research and bank holding company regulatory capacities at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Experience

Julia Reigel retired as a partner from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in 2024.

Education

J.D., Stanford Law School, 1996With Distinction, Founder and Symposium Section Editor, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance
M.A., Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1987
B.S., Economics, Colorado State University, 1986With Honors and High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Outstanding Junior

Credentials

Education

J.D., Stanford Law School, 1996With Distinction, Founder and Symposium Section Editor, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance
M.A., Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1987
B.S., Economics, Colorado State University, 1986With Honors and High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Outstanding Junior

Select Publications

Co-author, "Perspective on the New California Ratification Law Based on California Corporate and Delaware Ratification Practices," Business Law Annual Review, California Lawyers Association, 2023

Insights

Select Publications

Co-author, "Perspective on the New California Ratification Law Based on California Corporate and Delaware Ratification Practices," Business Law Annual Review, California Lawyers Association, 2023

Recent Insights

Alerts

On February 28, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) CHIPS Program Office published the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) under the CHIPS and Science Act (for background on this Act, see Wilson Sonsini’s prior alert, here). This initial FOA is directed towards funding the construction, expansion, or modernization of commercial facilities for the front- and back-end fabrication of leading-edge, current-generation, and mature-node semiconductors. Those interested in obtaining funds should review the FOA and related documentation at https://www.nist.gov/chips/notice-funding-opportunity-commercial-fabrication-facilities. Further FOAs focused on funding opportunities for facilities that build semiconductor materials and manufacturing equipment and facilities that support semiconductor research and development will be released later this year. A brief outline of the eligibility requirements, application process, and evaluation criteria for this initial FOA are set forth below:

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Bylined Articles

A new Section 119 has been added to the California Corporations Code (the “CCC”). Section 119 provides for corporate ratification and judicial validation of noncompliant corporate actions, as an analogue to Section 78.0296 of the Nevada Revised Statutes (the Nevada Law) and Sections 204 and 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the Delaware Law). In a previous article, the authors provided an overview of the background, framework, and key provisions of Section 119 in a previous legislative session. This latest article, co-authored by Wilson Sonsini partner Julia Reigel and published by Wolters Kluwer, is intended to provide a practical perspective on the processes for implementing corporate self-help and seeking judicial relief under Section 119.

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