Does anyone have any insight on GD strategic transactions and licensing? I know some folks at WSGR and Cooley tech trans, are the practices similar?

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I also saw they lost a bunch of partners to Orrick last year and this year, is that group in trouble?

They are similar. Chambers ranks WSGR and Cooley higher for the practice in CA, but to a certain extent the strength of the group is dependent on city/market and there’s often movement among partners between the different tech firms.

See: https://chambers.com/legal-rankings/technology-california-5:479:12059:1?l=en-GB

In a vacuum I’d imagine that at Gunderson there’s likely more investor-side VC work in that group just given the strength of that practice at Gunderson generally. Lots of deal volume and likely less later stage financing / M&A work than at Cooley or WSGR.

I know people in the practice at all the major tech firms. Happy to chat via DM if you like.

Not in that group but work with them daily. Agree that, as a firm, we probably do more investor side work than Cooley and WSGR. That said, the licensing ppl do a lot of company side stuff too. One advantage to that group at GD is that it’s not formally split between life science and tech, so you can get reps at both types of work. I think WSGR splits its group and not sure about Cooley.

I can say the LA departures were really specific to that office and shouldn’t bear on your decision if you’re looking at another office.

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