David J. Berger

David J. Berger is the Director at Long-Term Stock Exchange and Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

David J. Berger is a member of the board of directors at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and chair of the Policy Committee. David also chairs WSGR's Pro Bono Committee and serves on the board of the firm's venture capital fund.

David is a leader in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate governance practice. He specializes in representing officers, directors, and shareholders in corporate control contests and mergers and acquisitions. He has had a leading role in many of the most prominent corporate control and governance disputes in Silicon Valley and Delaware, including representing Google in its adoption of its Class C stock; Chevron in the successful litigation amending its bylaws to include a mandatory forum selection provision; AATI in the leading case involving Delaware's confidential arbitration program; Hewlett-Packard's board in its proxy contest and litigation to acquire Compaq; Genentech in response to Roche's merger proposal; the Special Committee of Freescale Semiconductor in one of the largest going-private transactions in the technology arena; 3PAR in its auction and eventual sale to HP; Ameritrade in its merger with TD Waterhouse and, subsequently, TD Ameritrade in a variety of matters; and Pixar in its merger with Walt Disney.

David also serves as counsel to a number of private equity firms, including Silver Lake Partners, Oak Hill Capital Partners, and Francisco Partners. Additionally, he served as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange's Proxy Working Group and acted as chief counsel to the NYSE Commission on Corporate Governance, which issued its final report in the fall of 2010. He was a participant in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Proxy Roundtable, and has taught corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and related classes at institutions such as Harvard Law School, Stanford University's Directors College, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and Duke's Director Education Institute.

David maintains an active pro bono and public service practice. He was one of the lead counsel in a case that successfully challenged the use of written tests to determine disability qualifications under the Americans with Disabilities Act, led a multi-week trial in a federal court in San Francisco to end discrimination in county-contracting processes, was co-counsel with the Equal Justice Society on an amicus brief on behalf of social and organizational psychologists in the Fisher v. University of Texas case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and led the WSGR team honored by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights for its work in de Abadia-Peixoto v. United States Department of Homeland Security, a class action lawsuit filed in August 2011 on behalf of thousands of immigration detainees who have been forced to appear in shackles before the immigration court. David has served on the board of directors of the California Culinary Academy (NASDAQ:COOK), as well as a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Smuin Ballet, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center of San Francisco, and the Legal Community Against Violence.

David J. Berger is the Director at Long-Term Stock Exchange, based in United States, North America. With a background in Financial Services, David J. Berger has a rich history of leadership and innovation.David J. Berger studied BA History at Duke University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.