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Michael Nordtvedt
Partner
Corporate
Seattle
Palo Alto

D206-883-2524

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  • Extensive Corporate and Securities Experience

    Michael specializes in corporate and securities law, including general corporate representation, public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions.

  • Wide Range of Clients

    He represents public and private technology, medical device, and life sciences companies at all stages of growth, in addition to investment banks and VC and private equity firms.

  • A Leader in His Field

    Michael is consistently recognized among the top practitioners in his field by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Michael Nordtvedt currently leads the capital markets practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and is a partner at the firm’s Seattle and Palo Alto offices, where he focuses on the representation of public and private technology, medical device, and life sciences companies through all stages of their growth, as well as investment banks and venture capital and private equity firms.

Michael specializes in corporate and securities law, including general corporate representation, public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions. He also has considerable experience in counseling companies on complex governance, securities laws and disclosure issues. Michael frequently represents investment banks in their underwriting transactions and he also has broad transactional experience representing venture capital and private equity firms. Throughout the course of his career he has had responsibility for structuring and negotiating in excess of $40 billion in public and private financing transactions, for both companies and investment banks.

Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Michael practiced in the corporate group at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Menlo Park, California. Michael also served in the United States Navy as an engineering officer aboard USS Lake Champlain (CG57), as executive and weapons officer aboard USS Monsoon (PC4), and at the Pentagon as an action officer responsible for international technology transfer issues.

Experience

Michael Nordtvedt currently leads the capital markets practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and is a partner at the firm’s Seattle and Palo Alto offices, where he focuses on the representation of public and private technology, medical device, and life sciences companies through all stages of their growth, as well as investment banks and venture capital and private equity firms.

Michael specializes in corporate and securities law, including general corporate representation, public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions. He also has considerable experience in counseling companies on complex governance, securities laws and disclosure issues. Michael frequently represents investment banks in their underwriting transactions and he also has broad transactional experience representing venture capital and private equity firms. Throughout the course of his career he has had responsibility for structuring and negotiating in excess of $40 billion in public and private financing transactions, for both companies and investment banks.

Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Michael practiced in the corporate group at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Menlo Park, California. Michael also served in the United States Navy as an engineering officer aboard USS Lake Champlain (CG57), as executive and weapons officer aboard USS Monsoon (PC4), and at the Pentagon as an action officer responsible for international technology transfer issues.

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Wilson Sonsini Advises OneStream on Registered and Synthetic Secondary Offering
On November 18, 2024, OneStream, Inc., the leading enterprise finance management platform that modernizes the Office of the CFO by unifying core finance and operational functions, closed an underwritten public offering of 15,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $31.00 per share. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented OneStream in the transaction.
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2024 Mid-Year Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present the 2024 Mid-Year Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report, analyzing 124 private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings (RDOs) by U.S.-based tech and life science companies between January 1 and June 30, 2024.
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Utah Late Stage Company Liquidity Event Bootcamp
Join fellow founders, CEOs, CFOs, General Counsels, and their teams at this exclusive event designed to help private companies better understand the process behind an initial public offering as well as other late-stage financing and exit events. Experts and experienced executives from Wilson Sonsini, Ernst & Young, J.P. Morgan, IMA Financial Group (formerly Diversified Insurance), Nasdaq, and Donnelley Financial Solutions will share – how to prepare, ways to avoid pitfalls, and strategies late-stage companies face in preparing for a successful transition to being a public company and other late-stage liquidity events.
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NY/NJ NASPP Chapter Meeting - SPACs: A Primer
Selling to a SPAC can offer a quick and lucrative transaction for unlisted sellers, as well as provide an efficient way for private companies to tap public equity markets, but there are a number of key considerations, as SPACs involve a multitude of complex challenges.

Michael Nordtvedt, head of Wilson Sonsini’s capital markets practice, will provide an overview of SPACs, including:

                         • SPAC basics
                         • Recent trends
                         • Pros and cons
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