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Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:15 pm
by reasonable troll
I know, NY is the be-all, end-all for corporate practice. Larger class sizes mean better odds of landing a biglaw position in the first place.
BUT transactional work does exist in CA. I'm curious which region TLSers know/perceive that the greatest amount (and quality) of transactional work is available.
LA, SF, or SV?
References to specific firms/offices would be great as well.
TIA
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:37 pm
by Anonymous User
obviously SV has the most/best/highest profile transactional work. lots of VC/start ups, but also tons of established tech companies. SF gets a bit of that too. In SV, all the local firms are good if you want VC/emerging company work (wilson, cooley, fenwick). the larger CA firms do plenty of m&a and general corporate work as well (mofo, latham, OMM, gibson). the new york outposts do lots of NYC style cap markets, finance, and m&a too.
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:42 pm
by WODKilla123
Just do corp at Fenwick & West but don't get no offer like Tucker Max bro
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:03 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:obviously SV has the most/best/highest profile transactional work. lots of VC/start ups, but also tons of established tech companies. SF gets a bit of that too. In SV, all the local firms are good if you want VC/emerging company work (wilson, cooley, fenwick). the larger CA firms do plenty of m&a and general corporate work as well (mofo, latham, OMM, gibson). the new york outposts do lots of NYC style cap markets, finance, and m&a too.
This on Silicon Valley stuff (especially Fenwick, which took Facebook public).
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:25 pm
by NoleinNY
GDC and Skadden are great for CA corporate. MTO's LA office does a lot of high profile media work.
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:17 pm
by bk1
It depends on what type of work you want to do. You can't just say that one area is better than the other at corporate. For example, if you want to do PE it makes a lot more sense to go to KE SF than it does any of the SV heavyweights, but for other practice areas it is the opposite.
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:14 am
by itbdvorm
bk187 wrote:It depends on what type of work you want to do. You can't just say that one area is better than the other at corporate. For example, if you want to do PE it makes a lot more sense to go to KE SF than it does any of the SV heavyweights, but for other practice areas it is the opposite.
Check Chambers for a good breakdown. Certainly does depend on what you want to do - different places have different strengths.
Re: Best Place in CA for Transactional Work?
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:03 am
by Anonymous User
Also check out Cooley and Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto.