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For more than four decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation.
Fenwick & West was founded in 1972 in the heart of Silicon Valley—before “Silicon Valley” existed—by four visionary lawyers who left a top-tier New York law firm to pursue their shared belief that technology would revolutionize the business world and to pioneer the legal work for those technological innovations. In order to be most effective, they decided they needed to move to a location close to primary research and technology development. These four attorneys opened their first office in downtown Palo Alto, and Fenwick became one of the first technology law firms in the world.
From our founding in 1972, Fenwick has been committed to promoting diversity and inclusion both within our firm and throughout the legal profession. For almost four decades, the firm has actively promoted an open and inclusive work environment and committed significant resources towards improving our diversity efforts at every level.
At Fenwick, we are proud of our commitment to the community and to our culture of making a difference in the lives of individuals and organizations in the communities where we live and work. We recognize that providing legal services is not only an essential part of our professional responsibility, but also an excellent opportunity for our attorneys to gain valuable practical experience, learn new areas of the law and contribute to the community.
Year after year, Fenwick & West is honored for excellence in the legal profession. Many of our attorneys are recognized as leaders in their respective fields, and our Corporate, Tax, Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups consistently receive top national and international rankings, including:
- Nearly 15 percent of Fenwick partners named America's Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers USA and Chambers Global
- Selected as a "Go-To" law firm by in-house legal departments at Fortune 500 companies in Corporate Counsel magazine
- Named to The National Law Journal's inaugural "Intellectual Property Hot List" for outstanding patent, copyright, trademark and IP litigation services
We take sustainability very seriously at Fenwick. Like many of our clients, we are adopting policies that reduce consumption and waste, and improve efficiency. By using technologies developed by a number of our cleantech clients, we are at the forefront of implementing sustainable policies and practices that minimize environmental impact. In fact, Fenwick has earned recognition in several areas as one of the top US law firms for implementing sustainable business practices.
Read more about our commitment to sustainability and cleantech
At Fenwick, we have a passion for excellence and innovation that mirrors our client base. Our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes—allowing us to deliver best-in-class legal services more effectively.
Mountain View Office
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
650.988.8500
San Francisco Office
555 California Street
12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
415.875.2300
Seattle Office
1191 Second Avenue
10th Floor
Seattle, WA 98101
206.389.4510
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Mr. Roussel is a partner in the Mountain View Office. His practice concentrates on mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions involving technology companies. He has extensive experience with clients in the social networking, software, electronic game, and mobile application sectors. Mr. Roussel also counsels companies on corporate governance matters and takeover defenses.
Some of Mr. Roussel's representative transactions include:
- Over 30 acquisitions for Facebook
- Multiple acquisitions for Dropbox
- VeriSign's merger with Network Solutions
- Macromedia's merger with Adobe Systems
- Data Domain's merger with EMC
- TellMe Networks's acquisition by Microsoft
- Lexar Media's merger with Micron Technology
- VeriSign's Jamba! joint venture with News Corp./Fox Entertainment Group
- Ngmoco's acquisition by DeNA
- VeriSign's sale of its payment processing business to EBay
- Photobucket's acquisition by Fox Interactive Media
- BioWare Corp.'s acquisition by VG Holdings (an Elevation Partners entity)
- Elevation Partners’s investment in Yelp!
- VeriSign's sale of its registrar business to Pivotal Private Equity LLC
- The acquisitions of Newtoy, Area/Code and Astro Ape by Zynga
- The acquisitions of Clicker Media and Dotspotter by CBS Interactive
- Capcom's acquisitions of Cosmic Infinity and Blue Castle Games
- The acquisition of Three Rings by Sega
- Glu Mobile's acquisition of China MIG
- Electronic Arts's acquisition of Rupture and other acquisitions and strategic investments
Mr. Roussel led the Fenwick team in representing Facebook in its acquisition of Instagram, which was honored in 2013 as the “Global M&A Deal of the Year” by Global M&A Network. In 2012, Mr. Roussel was named ‘Top 20 Under 40’ list by the Daily Journal for his outstanding transactional work and track record in recent years, including his role of lead counsel for Facebook. Also in 2012, the Daily Journal recognized Mr. Roussel in the list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in California’ for his involvement in cases that had a broad legal or industrial impact.
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