Fenwick & West

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Fenwick & West LLP

Headquarters	Silicon Valley Center Mountain View, California
No. of attorneys	350[1]
Major practice areas	Corporate, litigation, tax, intellectual property, regulatory[1]
Key people	Richard Dickson, Chairman Rodger Cole, Managing Partner
Revenue	$723.3 million (2020)[1]
Date founded	1972
Company type	Limited liability partnership
Website	www.fenwick.com

Fenwick & West LLP is a law firm of nearly 430 attorneys with offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Santa Monica, Washington, DC and Shanghai. The firm's practice focuses on technology companies, life sciences companies and start-ups.^[2] Fenwick's lawyers are divided among four primary practice groups, with numerous subgroups within each: Corporate, Litigation, Tax and Intellectual Property.

• Fenwick allegedly assists their client, the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, FTX in creating shell companies to launder money. ^[3][4]

• Fenwick represents WhatsApp in its $16 billion acquisition by Facebook^[5]

• Fenwick announces a new version of the Series Seed Documents on GitHub, curated by Fenwick Partner Ted Wang.^[6]

• Fenwick is the #1 issuer adviser on IPOs both globally and in the United States; in the U.S., the firm handled 41 percent of the IPO market by volume and globally, Fenwick handled 17 percent^[7]
• Fenwick represents Facebook in its $1 billion purchase of Instagram^[8]
• Fenwick represents Facebook in its IPO, the largest Internet IPO in U.S. history^[9][10]

• Pro bono counsel to Democratic Underground in Righthaven LLC v. Democratic Underground LLC, which is widely regarded as a legal victory against copyright trolls^{[11][12][13][14]} and called Copyright Case of the Year by Managing Intellectual Property^[15]

• Fenwick partner Ralph Pais creates Flex by Fenwick^[2][16]

• Handles VeriSign's $21 billion acquisition of Network Solutions, the largest internet merger in history^[2][17]

• FTX: Helped in key aspects of now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. ^[18][19]
• Apple Computer: Apple was a very early client of the firm; the firm advised Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on the incorporation of the company and also advised Apple on the creation of the first shrinkwrap license agreement in 1976.^[20]
• Amazon.com: Fenwick defended the 1-Click patent for Amazon.^[20]
• eBay: Fenwick advised eBay on its IPO.^[20]
• Facebook: In 2012, Fenwick & West represented Facebook in the largest tech IPO in history.^[9][10] Fenwick also advised Facebook on its acquisition of Instagram in 2013.^[8]
• Oracle: Fenwick advised Oracle on its IPO.
• Wang Laboratories: Created the first clean room protocols for software, which later became an industry standard to prevent IP infringement.^[20]
• Virgin America: Fenwick advised the airline on its initial rounds of debt and equity financing in 2007.^[21]

• Fenwick & West website