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Taylor rejoins Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto

By Richard Binder

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has announced that Barry Taylor has rejoined the firm as a partner in the corporate and securities practice. He will be based in their Palo Alto office.

Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he had been a senior corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. As a managing director in the technology, media, and telecom group at Warburg Pincus, Taylor participated in the investment process for new deals and supported existing portfolio companies in Silicon Valley. He also managed the Menlo Park office for eight years and worked with Warburg's professionals in India and China on cross-border investments and servicing India- and China-based portfolio companies active in the United States.

In his prior 16-year tenure as a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate and securities practice, Taylor represented public and private companies in a wide range of matters, including private financings of preferred stock, convertible debt, and bridge loans with warrants, as well as both issuers and underwriters in public offerings. He also advised clients on public company governance and disclosure, reporting, and proxy matters, and negotiated and structured merger and acquisition transactions.

Taylor was a member of the New York Stock Exchange's Legal Advisory Board for three years and the National Association of Securities Dealers' Legal Advisory Board for six years. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975, and a B.A. in political science from Dickinson College in 1970.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).