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Shannon Eagan is a partner in the Securities Litigation, White Collar & Regulatory Defense and Commercial Litigation practice groups and a member of the Cooley Litigation department. She joined the Firm in 2007 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.
Ms. Eagan has substantial experience in representing corporations in Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and internal corporate investigations. Ms. Eagan also served on the trial team for Kent Roberts, the former general counsel of McAfee, Inc. who is the only defendant to date to obtain an acquittal in a stock options backdating prosecution.
She also has handled a wide variety of other complex litigation matters, including securities litigation, civil RICO, contract litigation, antitrust, employment-related litigation, health care, environmental and other general commercial disputes. Ms. Eagan's clients have included companies in the following industries: hardware, software, semiconductor, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, health care and public utility.
Ms. Eagan's representative matters include:
- Representation of the Special Committee of the Board of Directors in its internal investigation into stock options practices of a publicly-traded multi-billion dollar semiconductor company.
- Representation of a publicly-traded multi-billion dollar software company in connection with internal and SEC investigation into its accounting practices.
- Representation of individual employees of publicly-traded technology company in connection with internal investigations and securities litigation.
- Representation of a medical device company in a dispute over a multi-national distributorship agreement.
- Representation of private company's Audit Committee in connection with internal investigation into alleged sexual harassment by President and CEO.
- Representation of a multi-billion dollar software company in connection with creating legal, business, and political strategy regarding protection of its intellectual property in response to competitor's entry into client's primary markets.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Eagan was an associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins LLP, where she focused on securities litigation and complex commercial litigation. Prior to joining Latham, Ms. Eagan clerked for the Honorable Sarah Vance, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana from 2000 to 2001.
Ms. Eagan received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and was a member of Stanford Law Review. In 1996, she graduated cum laude from Duke University, receiving a B.A. in Public Policy Studies.
Ms. Eagan is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. She is a member of the State Bar of California.
Education- Stanford Law School
JD, 2000 - Duke University
BA Public Policy Studies, 1996, cum laude
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
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