• Marty Dunn
      1625 Eye Street, NW
      Washington, DC, 20006
      Phone: +1-202-383-5418
      Fax: +1-202-383-5414
  • Jay Herron
      610 Newport Center Drive, 17th Floor
      Newport Beach, CA, 92660
      Phone: +1-949-823-6922
      Fax: +1-949-823-6994
  • Warren T. Lazarow
      2765 Sand Hill Road
      Menlo Park, CA, 94025
      Phone: +1-650-473-2637
      Fax: +1-650-473-2601
  • Sung Pak
      Times Square Tower
      7 Times Square
      New York, NY, 10036
      Phone: +1-212-408-2456
      Fax: +1-212-326-2061
  • Mark D. Peterson
      610 Newport Center Drive, 17th Floor
      Newport Beach, CA, 92660
      Phone: +1-949-823-6971
      Fax: +1-949-823-6994
  • Robert Plesnarski
      1625 Eye Street, NW
      Washington, DC, 20006
      Phone: +1-202-383-5149
      Fax: +1-202-383-5414
  • Paul Sieben
      2765 Sand Hill Road
      Menlo Park, CA, 94025
      Phone: +1-650-473-2613
      Fax: +1-650-473-2601
  • Gary Singer
      610 Newport Center Drive, 17th Floor
      Newport Beach, CA, 92660
      Phone: +1-949-823-6915
      Fax: +1-949-823-6994
  • Andor Terner
      610 Newport Center Drive, 17th Floor
      Newport Beach, CA, 92660
      Phone: +1-949-823-6980
      Fax: +1-949-823-6994
  • Sam Zucker
      2765 Sand Hill Road
      Menlo Park, CA, 94025
      Phone: +1-650-473-2638
      Fax: +1-650-473-2601
PROFESSIONALS

  • Advanced Marketing Services, Inc.
    American Capital Strategies, Ltd.
    Berkeley Heartlab, Inc.
    Brion Technologies
    Broadcom Corporation
    Castle & Cooke, Inc.
    Exar Corporation
    International Game Technologies
    Nektar Therapeutics
    Pixelworks
    QLogic
    Red Robin
    SanDisk Corporation
    Spansion LLC 
    • Symantec Corporation
      UBS AG
      UPEK, Inc.
      Western Digital
      Wyse International, Inc.

Corporate Practice

Executives in the 21st century marketplace need outside counsel with the ability to help anticipate and address legal issues on every level, from day-to-day corporate counseling and securities law compliance, to intellectual property, tax, and employment law and benefits matters to complex boardroom situations relating to “bet-the-company” crises, mergers and acquisitions or sophisticated cross-border undertakings.

O’Melveny’s Corporate Practice Group is an executive’s best friend. Our lawyers provide efficient and accessible advice spanning the full suite of practice areas encountered by public and private company executives. Our deep experience representing clients across a diverse range of industries permits us to offer practical counseling with a keen focus on the business’ bottomline. We offer clients the best of both worlds: seasoned business lawyers in local offices, and the full global resources of a premier international law firm.

A billion-dollar cross-border acquisition for the world’s largest provider of flash memory. A management-led leveraged buyout of a multinational manufacturer. A sale involving Nobel Prize-winning RNAi therapeutics. A going-private bid for one of the United States’ largest homebuilders. A China-based manufacturing joint venture. For their endeavors novel or straightforward, O’Melveny’s Corporate Practice is dedicated to helping executives anticipate, understand, and resolve their most pressing legal issues.

Key Facts

  • O’Melveny’s Corporate Practice Group lawyers sit in many of the world’s major commercial centers, including Southern California, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York and Washington, DC.
  • Our lawyers are boardroom-level advisors who frequently serve as de facto outside general counsel. Our decades of experience advising boards allows us to anticipate and address critical strategic and day-to-day issues.
  • Clients benefit from the practical, solutions-oriented approach of Corporate Practice Group lawyers with years of high-level public service within the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s office.
  • Our practice includes lawyers with invaluable insight into the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and regulations. Two Corporate Finance partners in our Washington, DC office formerly served with the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance: Martin Dunn as the division’s deputy director and former acting director, and Robert Plesnarski as its deputy chief counsel. 
  • Our lawyers have received national and international recognition as leading practitioners in such publications as Forbes Magazine, Time Magazine, California Law Business, Global Counsel, Chambers Global - World’s Leading Business Lawyers, The Legal 500, and Corporate Counsel’s “Top Primary Counsel” list, among others.
  • Our robust venture capital and private equity practice in California, New York, and internationally (we closed such deals at a one-per-day pace in 2006 and 2007, and consistently rank among the most active law firms in this field) makes us uniquely suited to addressing the particular needs of private investment firms and their portfolio companies.
  • Our top-tier international offices — our China-based colleagues were recently awarded “China Practice of the Year” by Asian Legal Business — allow us to seamlessly provide unique expertise for clients considering expansion overseas.


Participant Media General William Lyon Sirna Therapeutics International Game Technology (IGT) American Capital Strategies (ACAS)