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| type, state, number: | attorney, ca, 39407 |
| issuer: state bar of california | |
| current status: active | |
| district: district 3 | |
| county: santa clara | |
| sections: | business law |
| license history | |
| 12/23/1966 | admitted to the state bar of california |
Lawrence Sonsini is king of the IPO and a dominant lawyer in Silicon Valley. He usually remains the chief outside counsel after handling an IPO; many of the companies he has taken public, such as Apple Computer in 1980, or Seagate Technology Inc. in 1981, have become Fortune 500 mainstays. He handled two of the largest IPOs ever, for Agilent Technologies Inc. in 1999, and Palm Inc. in 2000. He is the lawyer of choice for most executives in the high-tech field, as well as investment bankers dealing with such companies, and his client list reads like a who's who of Silicon Valley, including: Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Novell, LSI Logic, Pixar, Cypress Semiconductor, 3Com, Agilent Technologies, and GoTo.com, as well as Apple. Sonsini is chairman of one of the nation's fastest-growing firms; he is also a director of Novell, Pixar, Brocade Communications Systems, and Echelon Corp.