Jeffrey Saper is vice chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a global technology law firm specializing in the representation of technology and emerging growth companies.
Jeff specializes in public and private financings of technology and other emerging growth companies, as well as the representation of leading investment banks and corporate issuers in connection with public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in more than 200 public offerings, and has served as company counsel with respect to the initial public offerings of such prominent companies as Activision, Apple, Barracuda Networks, Gigamon, Infosys, LinkedIn, NetSuite, Palo Alto Networks, RingCentral, and Splunk. In addition, he has served as lead underwriters' counsel on numerous public offerings, including those of Ancestry.com, Cavium, Extreme Networks, Guidewire Software, Imperva, Infoblox, Macrovision, Nimble Storage, and Pandora Media. Jeff also has extensive expertise in cross-border corporate transactions, including the $640 million acquisition of Dr. Solomon (U.K.) by Network Associates and the initial public offering by Infosys Technologies, Ltd., the first U.S. initial public offering by an Indian company.
Jeff has spoken on a variety of corporate securities issues, including the public offering process as well as related disclosure and corporate governance obligations of publicly traded issuers.
