Press Release 04.01.24
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Semiconductor industry clients have relied on Pillsbury for legal counsel since 1968. Drawing from a multidisciplinary group of attorneys covering all areas of law including corporate, intellectual property, regulatory and licensing and litigation, we serve semiconductor clients from our offices in all of the major industry markets, including Silicon Valley, New York, Northern Virginia, London, Tokyo and Shanghai.
Pillsbury has represented hundreds of industry entrepreneurs, startup companies, established public companies, venture capital firms, investment banks and financial institutions. We are counsel of choice for companies in initial public offerings, with two of the 10 most active issuer-side attorneys in the U.S. since 2002, according to IPO VitalSigns, an independent market database.
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We advise semiconductor clients on a wide range of technologies, including:
Pillsbury has handled 12 percent of all completed U.S. semiconductor IPOs since 2002 and 24 percent of such IPOs involving semiconductor companies based in Silicon Valley. Our issuer-side IPOs include:
We have also completed over 700 mergers and acquisitions, including landmark semiconductor acquisitions such as Inphi’s pending $10 billion acquisition by Marvell and dozens of other semiconductor deals for companies including: Atheros, Tensilica, SiByte, Exar, Barefoot Networks, Techpoint, NetSpeed Systems, P.A. Semi, NuVia, InvenSense, Techwell, Redpine Signals, Cavendish Kinetics and Sigma Designs. Our Mergers & Acquisitions group also works closely with our Intellectual Property and Regulatory attorneys to assure that our client’s intellectual property assets are optimally protected in the process.
More than 30 of the firm’s IP attorneys have significant experience with clients in the semiconductor industry. We help clients develop comprehensive and successful IP strategies by protecting, managing, asserting, defending, and leveraging their IP assets. Semiconductor industry clients rely on Pillsbury for IP counseling, patent prosecution, dispute resolution, licensing, trade secret protection and copyright and trademark protection.