CONTACT: 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Phone | 650-493-9300 Fax | 650-493-6811
One Market Plaza Spear Tower, Suite 3300 San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone | 415-947-2000 Fax | 415-947-2099 mkorman@wsgr.com
| | CONTACT: 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Phone | 650-493-9300 Fax | 650-493-6811
One Market Plaza Spear Tower, Suite 3300 San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone | 415-947-2000 Fax | 415-947-2099 mkorman@wsgr.com
| | | EXPERIENCE: Martin Korman is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he leads the firm's mergers and acquisitions practice. In 2009, the firm advised on nearly 120 M&A transactions valued at over $70 billion. Representing public and private companies in purchase and sale transactions on both a friendly and contested basis, Marty is recognized as a leading mergers and acquisitions attorney in the technology industry. Marty is a frequent guest lecturer on the subject of mergers and acquisitions. He has presented at a number of law schools throughout the country, including Columbia University Law School, Stanford Law School, and Yale Law School. Marty is currently a member of the firm's Policy Committee. SELECT TRANSACTIONS: - Sun Microsystems in its merger with Oracle
- Genentech in its acquisition by Roche
- Freescale Semiconductor in its going-private transaction
- Hewlett-Packard in its merger with Compaq
- Sun Microsystems in its acquisition of StorageTek
- Pixar in its merger with Disney
- VMware in its sale to EMC
- Netscape in its sale to America Online
- Overture Services in its sale to Yahoo!
- Palm in its merger with Handspring
- Represented in excess of 10 companies in sale transactions to Cisco Systems
EDUCATION: - J.D., Yale Law School
- Undergraduate Degree, Stanford University
Martin W. Korman
continued | HONORS: - Selected for inclusion in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 editions of Best Lawyers in America
- Selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Legal 500 US
- Named in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 as one of the Northern California "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics magazine
- Described as "a star" within the firm in the 2005 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- Selected as one of the top 45 U.S. attorneys under the age of 45 by American Lawyer magazine
- AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
ADMISSIONS: - State Bar of California
- State Bar of New York
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