M. Wainwright Fishburn, Jr. is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. He joined the Firm in 1992 as a founding partner in the San Diego office and currently serves on the Firm's Marketing Committee.
Mr. Fishburn's practice emphasizes general representation of high growth technology and other operating companies that range from start-ups to publicly held corporations. His practice focuses on corporate governance matters as well as mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and intellectual property licensing and management. He also assists his client companies in financing matters, often involving the placement of debt and equity securities. Mr. Fishburn has been counsel to public and private companies operating in a variety of environments, including biotechnology, information technology, internet, computer hardware and software, communications, composite materials, retail, service and manufacturing industries. He has also represented U.S., European and Japanese companies in international transactions of varying descriptions.
Mr. Fishburn lectures frequently on corporate governance matters and is a founding board member of the Corporate Directors Forum as well as BIOCOM/san diego. He has assisted as counsel to numerous start-up companies and is a founder of two publicly-traded companies. Mr. Fishburn served as a Director of the Burnham Institute and is currently active on the Board of Trustees. He has been active with the UCSD CONNECT program in entrepreneurship, having served as the President of the CONNECT San Diego Technology Financial Forum and is active in numerous other community organizations.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Fishburn worked in the corporate environment serving as assistant to the CEO during the divestiture of a group of 12 operating companies. Thereafter, as a corporate development officer for the acquiror, St. Paul Companies, Inc., a Fortune 500 insurance and financial services company, he served as Assistant Vice President Planning and Development of the newly formed operating subsidiary.
Mr. Fishburn received a J.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and served as President of the Hastings Board of Governors. He received a B.A. from the University of Arizona and has served on the University of Arizona Technology Advisory Committee. Mr. Fishburn completed post-graduate study at the Australian National University and was appointed as a Senior Fellow of Bergmann College affiliated with the A.N.U.
Mr. Fishburn is admitted to practice before the State Bar of Arizona and the California State Bar and is a member of the American Bar Association.
Education- University of California, Hastings College of the Law
JD, 1981 - University of Arizona
BA
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