EDITORIAL REVIEW

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Bochner built the Aruba Networks IPO. Now he's piecing together a merger between Flextronics and Solectron.


A corporate name to know, he represents Genentech, Network Appliance, Goldman Sachs, Autodesk, Monolithic Power Systems, Quantum (and Lawdragon) on issues relating to public and venture finance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. He is a lecturer at Boalt Hall and serves as an SEC Advisory Committee member as well as co-chair of the Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council.




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Chief Executive Officer

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Law & Governance
• Entrepreneurial Services
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Venture Capital

EXPERIENCE:

Steven E. Bochner is the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In his nearly 30 years of experience practicing corporate and securities law, Steve has served as lead counsel for some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies, and has assisted clients in venture capital, public offering, and merger transactions valued in the billions of dollars. Steve has also represented numerous start-up companies, as well as leading venture capital and investment banking firms. Prior to becoming CEO, Steve served in various other management positions at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, including as a member of the firm's Policy Committee and as chair of its Compensation Committee.

Since 2002, Steve has been a lecturer on corporate and securities law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he designed and taught the "Venture Capital and IPO Law" course. He also has been a lecturer at Stanford Law School, as well as a guest instructor on venture capital and business law issues at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

In 2005, Steve was appointed as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies. This select committee was charged with evaluating the current securities regulatory system relating to governance, disclosure, financial reporting, internal controls, and capital formation for smaller public companies, including the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The SEC Advisory Committee's final report was delivered to the Commission on April 23, 2006. Steve served as chairman of the Governance and Disclosure Subcommittee of the SEC Advisory Committee. Many of the SEC Advisory Committee recommendations have since been adopted as proposed and final rule changes by the SEC.

In 2006, Steve was appointed to his second term as co-chair of the Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council, on which he's served since 1996. The council is responsible for making recommendations to the Nasdaq board on policy and rule changes related to issuer listing standards. Steve was extensively engaged in the development of Nasdaq's rules with respect to corporate governance reform and other listing standards. Steve also served on the California Department of Corporations' Securities Regulation Advisory Committee.

Steve frequently speaks on a variety of securities law topics for the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and is a co-chair of PLI's Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in New York City. Steve is also a member of the executive committee of, and frequent speaker at, the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute in San Diego. Steve has been a frequent panelist at the SEC's Small Business Forum in Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION:

• J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, 1981
  Research Assistant to the late Professor Richard W. Jennings, a leading scholar in the field of securities regulation
• B.S., Political Science, San Jose State University, 1977

ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member, West Professional Development Corporate & Securities Law Advisory Board
• Chairman, Advisory Board, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Member, SEC Advisory Committe, 2005 and 2006
• Co-chair, Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council
• Director, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
  Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network recently published a spotlight of Steve in its Valley Vision newsletter. Click here to read the article.
• Member, Advisory Board, VentureOne
• Member, Advisory Board, wallstreetlawyer.com
• Member, SEC Historical Society Advisory Council

HONORS:

• Named in the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business where he was praised by clients as "a lawyer to look to for high-level advice"
• Named a "Northern California Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine from 2004 through 2010
• Named to "Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers" list, 2007
• Selected for inclusion in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of The Legal 500 US
• Named to "Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America" list, 2006, 2007, and 2010
• Named by San Jose Magazine as one of the leading business lawyers in Silicon Valley
• Ranked among the nation's top initial public offering attorneys by the IPO Journal
• Selected for inclusion in the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 editions of Best Lawyers in America
• AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

ADMISSIONS:

• State Bar of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

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SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

• IPO Guide, Merrill Corporation, Seventh Edition, 2010
  
  
• "Using Corporate Websites for Regulation FD-Compliant Disclosures: Recommended Best Practices," Wall Street Lawyer, Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2009
  
  
• "When Is Managing to a Forecast Illegal 'Earnings Management'?" Insights, Vol. 22, No. 5, May 2008
  
  
• "Earnings Releases: Legal Requirements and Best Practices," Insights, Vol. 22, No. 3, March 2008
  
  
• "Fixing 404," Michigan Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 8, June 2007 (Co-author with Professor Joseph A. Grundfest)
  
  
• "Keys to Minimizing Director Liability," Corporate Board Member Magazine/Nasdaq Board Governance Series, Vol. X, 2007
  
  
• IPO Guide, Merrill Corporation, Sixth Edition, 2006
  
  
• "The Recent Evolution of Underwriter Lock-Up Agreements," Insights, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2004
  
  
• "The Duty to Update and Disclosure Reform: The Impact of Regulation FD and Current Disclosure Initiatives," Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Vol. 7, Number 2, Spring 2002

Please see wsgr.com for a complete list of publications.

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

• Session Chair, "Capital Transactions in 2010," 37th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Northwestern Law School, Coronado, California, January 21, 2010
  
  
• "The Root Causes & Potential Solutions for the Exit Crisis," National Venture Capital Association Webcast, December 11, 2009
  
  
• "Global Capital Market Developments," 36th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Northwestern Law School, Coronado, California, January 28-30, 2009
  
  
• "Current Issues in Securities Regulation for Smaller Companies," SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, Washington, D.C., November 20, 2008
  
  
• "Modernizing the Securities and Exchange Commission's Disclosure System" roundtable, 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2008
  
  
• "Disclosure, Materiality and Regulation FD," Compliance Week webcast, April 29, 2008
  
  
• "Materiality and Restatements" and " XBRL Implementation," Testimony before the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, March 13-14, 2008
  
  
• "U.S. Capital Market Developments," 35th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Northwestern Law School, Coronado, California, January 23-25, 2008
  
  
• "Shareholder Activism and the Board of Directors," 39th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, Practising Law Institute, New York, New York, November 8-10, 2007
  
  
• "Private Securities Offering Reform: The New Frontier?" American Bar Association, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2007
  
  
• "Fixing 404," New Frontiers in Law & Business, The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, UC Berkeley School of Law, April 13, 2007
  
  
• "The Future of Capital Formation in the U.S. — Have the SEC and the PCAOB Gone Far Enough?", The Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and The New York Stock Exchange Group, Menlo Park, California, January 30, 2007
  
  
• "Trends in Capital Formation," 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Northwestern Law School, Coronado, California, January 24-26, 2007
  
  
• "Current Accounting and Auditing Issues," 38th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, Practicing Law Institute, New York, New York, November 2006
  
  
• "MD&A Best Practices," SEC Reporting and FASB Update Forum, The SEC Institute, Orlando, Florida, June 1-2, 2006
  
  
• "The SEC Advisory Committee - Governance and Disclosure," 33rd Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Northwestern Law School, San Diego, California, January 18-20, 2006

Please see wsgr.com for a complete list of speaking engagements.