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Menlo Park
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Mr Boris Feldman
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner and Head of U.S. Technology
Career
Boris Feldman specializes in securities litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and fiduciary duty and disclosure counselling. Boris has represented many of the leading technology companies: Google, Facebook, Genentech, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Snap, and Hewlett-Packard (complete list here).
Boris has also represented legendary entrepreneurs, including Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Herb Boyer, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Carly Fiorina, Arthur Levinson, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Boris has defended over 240 shareholder class actions, derivative suits, and merger challenges throughout the United States on behalf of domestic and foreign issuers. He has represented boards of directors in internal investigations and regularly represents companies and individuals in SEC enforcement proceedings. A major part of his practice is advising public companies on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues.
Boris was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Yale College on a National Merit Scholarship. At Yale, he was President of the Yale Debate Association and Speaker of the Yale Political Union. Boris graduated from Yale, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in history. Boris graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as Note & Topics Editor of The Yale Law Journal. He was also the Director of Debating for Yale University while a law student.
Boris has served on a variety of legal organizations, including the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and the American Law Institute. He has been outside counsel to Palo Alto Community Eruv.
Boris has lectured at many law schools, including Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. He has published extensively on litigation and securities law topics.
Memberships
- Member, The American Law Institute
- Member, Board of Advisors, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
- Member, Board of Advisors, Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession
Education
- J.D., Yale Law School, 1980
Note & Topics Editor, Yale Law Journal (Volume 89); Director of Debating for Yale University - B.A., History, Yale College, 1977
Summa cum laude; With Distinction in History; Member, Phi Beta Kappa; National Merit Scholar; President, Yale Debate Association; Speaker, Yale Political Union
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP continues to blaze a trail for Magic Circle firms in US litigation, and clients and peers alike recognise that the firm has ‘built a real presence in this space over the last few years, and is a rising star‘. The firm has an impressive roster of clients, among them AstraZeneca, Cargill, BP, Pinterest and Tesla. Meredith Kotler (who is ‘a wonderful advocate with great judgment, presence and poise‘) and Mary Eaton (who is ‘smart, engaged, excellent with clients and judges, just top-notch‘) lead the practice from New York. The firm also has a major presence in Silicon Valley thanks to standout partner Boris Feldman, who leads the US technology practice and has ‘unparalleled experience and great relationships across the industry‘, and emerging talent Doru Gavril, who is ‘razor-sharp, masters all details and is truly tenacious‘.
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
(Hall of Fame)Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in New York continues to blaze a trail for Magic Circle firm in US securities litigation, thanks to its ‘whip-smart, creative lawyers who are very focused on getting the best result for the client’. Indeed, clients praise the firm’s ‘extraordinary creativity, experience and domain expertise in the fields of securities litigation and corporate governance litigation’. Meredith Kotler and Mary Eaton are co-heads of the securities and shareholder litigation practice, which was founded only three years ago, but is already at the forefront of the market. Kotler and Eaton successfully represented AstraZeneca, its CEO, and several other executives in a putative securities class action challenging disclosures regarding its COVID-19 vaccine, including alleged problems with its clinical trials and prospects for FDA emergency use authorization. Boris Feldman in Silicon Valley, who is noted for ‘a very celebrated career as a brilliant and creative lawyer’, gives the firm a strong presence on the West Coast and in the technology sector. Among his clients is Google’s parent company Alphabet. In the same office, emerging partner talent Doru Gavril is a key advisor to the technology and electric vehicles industries. Together, they secured a complete victory in a putative securities class action for image-sharing platform Pinterest.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A litigation: defense United States > Dispute resolution
- Securities litigation: defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Financial products
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation