Bay Area

At the heart of the Bay Area, with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, we are uniquely positioned to advise Northern California’s most prominent technology companies, private equity firms and financial institutions—as well as global leaders across industries. Since opening our Palo Alto office in 1999, we have grown in step with the region’s dynamic market and our clients’ evolving needs, a trajectory that spurred the launch of our San Francisco office in early 2026. Today, clients rely on our Bay Area team for deep technology-focused experience and the exceptional resources of a premier global law firm.

Augmented by the Firm’s network of 12 other offices worldwide, our Bay Area team guides clients on their most important matters across an array of areas, including:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Capital markets
• Private fund formation and fundraising
• Registered funds
• Public company advisory practice and corporate governance
• Litigation, investigations and dispute resolution
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging growth companies
• Intellectual property, including patent-related risk assessment, design patent acquisition, assertion and enforcement strategies, and trade secret protection and disputes
• Securities litigation
• Executive compensation and employee benefits

We advise leading clients across the full spectrum of the technology sector—from artificial intelligence, data centers and digital infrastructure to software, semiconductors and telecom—and deliver cutting-edge counsel to innovators in banking, biotech, healthcare and consumer products. Our clients include both well-known players and emerging companies in these sectors, as well as investors, lenders and underwriters.