Changing firms mid-career—or returning to private practice after serving in government or in-house roles—can be an incredibly exciting time. Transitioning your practice at a time of your career marked by substantial growth means you need a firm who will set you up for success.
By joining Wilson Sonsini, you’ll have a global platform and an incredibly dynamic client base on which to grow your business. And our robust lateral integration efforts and associate training academies will ensure that you don’t miss a step on your way up the ladder.
Join our elite team of corporate lawyers working with a mix of life science and tech clients. We work with exciting companies, guiding and supporting them from inception, through funding, and on to the IPO process and life as a public company, or sale. We are looking for corporate attorneys with three to four years of experience for an associate position with background and interest in the incredibly dynamic world of life sciences and tech. Desired expertise includes an ability to advise companies through the start-up and venture capital phase, IPOs and equity capital markets, and public company reporting. Expect to lead EC/VC and/or capital market offerings and manage a varied team of associates that support you. We are a group of corporate generalists serving these two client bases. You will gain deep and broad experience working directly with clients bringing world-changing products and technologies to market. This is a fun and collaborative group!
Join our elite team of corporate lawyers working with a mix of life science and tech clients. We work with exciting biotech and tech companies, guiding and supporting them from inception, through funding, and on to the IPO process and life as a public company, or sale. We are looking for corporate attorneys with five plus years of experience for an associate or of counsel position with background and interest in the incredibly dynamic world of life sciences and tech. Desired expertise includes an ability to advise companies through the start-up and venture capital phase, IPOs and equity capital markets, and public company reporting. Expect to lead EC/VC and/or capital market offerings and manage a varied team of associates that support you. We are a group of corporate generalists serving these two client bases. You will gain deep and broad experience working directly with clients bringing world-changing products and technologies to market. This is a fun and collaborative group!
Our Technology Transactions Group offers an excellent opportunity for self-motivated and entrepreneurial individuals with a strong interest in technology companies at all stages of growth to help build and grow an established and dynamic national practice group. Our team primarily works on structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of intellectual property and commercial transactions as well as the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, and other multidisciplinary transactions. If you have 7+ years of relevant experience and enjoy training associates and working as part of a national team, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for a UK qualified Share Incentive lawyer to join the London office to work with the existing UK Share Incentive partner. You will gain excellent experience and exposure to clients, with opportunities for progression. You will advise the firm’s clients on share option and employee incentive arrangements while supporting the London corporate team in relation to investments, M&A and IPOs. With a focus on UK/US advisory work, you will work regularly with members of the firm’s wider U.S. Employee Benefits and Compensation (EB&C) team on mutual clients as well as with corporate teams across the firm on both advisory work and cross border financings, M&As and other exits. We want to hear from you if you spent a majority of your 2-5 years PQE on employee share incentives and have a technical understanding and knowledge of incentive arrangements for private companies, with a particular emphasis on EMI arrangements, non-qualified plans, CSOP and growth shares. Ideally, you be commercially minded and solution driven with the ability to clearly explain and advise on complex issues.
If you would like to submit an application to Wilson Sonsini, but do not see an active posting for the office or practice you are interested in, please apply here.
Our Academies are the cornerstone of our professional development programming. The academies are offered for associates in their first, third, fifth, and seventh years. There is also an academy for summer associates and one for those who have newly joined our member ranks. Conducted as multi-day conferences and held…
Part of our strength as a firm comes from working across practice groups to serve our clients. Learn more about the many industries where our myriad practice groups and areas of expertise come together to serve bleeding-edge clients and technologies.
Associates represent the future of our firm, and their insights, perspectives, and talents are a key ingredient for the firm’s success. Therefore, it’s critical that they have a voice in firm decisions and policies.
Every firm has its own insider knowledge base—the quirks and ways of working that are hard to understand until you actually work there. Wherever possible, we try to tell you about those quirks as you’re researching us so that you can get a better understanding of how we operate. Which leads us to answer the question: At Wilson Sonsini, what do we mean by “neighborhoods”?
