Boris Feldman Bio
Boris Feldman specializes in securities
litigation and counseling. In its nationwide ranking of securities litigators, Chambers USA awarded him its Band One
designation (one of only two in the United States), describing him as “simply
one of the top practitioners in the country for mammoth, bet-the-company
securities litigation” – “tactically very smart and knows the law cold.” The 2008 edition of Chambers USA called him “an
exceptionally gifted, incredibly smart lawyer with excellent judgment.”
Other legal publications have been similarly generous. The American Lawyer named Boris one of
the top 45 lawyers in the country under the age of 45 in 1995. The
San Francisco Chronicle profiled Boris as one of the Top
Ten Lawyers in the Bay Area. The
Recorder (the California affiliate of American Lawyer) named Boris the "go
to" securities defense litigator in Northern California. The Los Angeles Daily Journal included him on
its list of the 100 most influential lawyers in California, as well as on its
list of top securities litigators in the state. He was recently profiled in SuperLawyers Magazine. LawDragon has chosen him as one of the 500 Leading
Lawyers in America.
Boris has defended over 150 shareholder class actions and
derivative suits around the country.
Among his clients:
Genentech, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Boston Scientific,
Franklin-Templeton Funds, and Intuit.
(For a complete list, click here).
In addition to defending shareholder suits, Boris also represents boards
of directors in internal investigations and represents companies and
individuals in SEC enforcement proceedings. He regularly advises public companies on disclosure issues.
Boris was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1955. 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 in 1977 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in
history). Boris graduated from
Yale Law School in 1980. There, he served as Note & Topics Editor of The
Yale Law Journal (Volume 89). He was also the Director of Debating for Yale
University.
Boris has been at Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati since 1986. He is a member of its Board of Directors
and Chair of the firm's Policy Committee.
Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Boris was law clerk to Judge Abraham D.
Sofaer (S.D.N.Y.), as associate at Arnold & Porter, and Special Assistant
to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.
Boris has served on a variety of boards related to securities law.
He is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of the Israel
Securities Authority, the Israeli equivalent of the U.S. SEC. He is a member of
the Board of Advisors of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate
Law. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Securities Regulation
Institute. Boris also served as a lawyer-representative to the Ninth Circuit
Judicial Conference, a member of the Ninth Circuit's Lawyer Representative
Coordinating Committee, and co-chair of the lawyer representatives to the
Northern District of California.
Among other pro bono
activities, Boris is a member of the Board of Directors for the Endowment Fund
of San Mateo County Legal Aid. He
served on the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal
Services. He has been outside
counsel to Palo Alto Community Eruv.
Boris has lectured on shareholder and disclosure issues before
ALI-ABA, American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Glasser Legalworks, NASDAQ,
National Investor Relations Institute, New York Stock Exchange, PLI,
Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Risk & Insurance Management
Society, SEC Institute, Stanford Directors' College, and Software Publishers
Association. He has written articles on a variety
of disclosure topics.
You can reach Boris at (650) 565-3500 or obtain his e-mail address
by contacting "ncarvalho" at "wsgr.com"