Allison Spinner

Allison Berry Spinner is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focuses on corporate and securities transactions in the technology sector. Allison's clients include companies in the software, networking, wireless communications, semiconductor, Internet, consumer goods, energy and clean technology, and retail industries. She regularly handles corporate governance matters for public and private companies, investment banks, and venture capital and private equity firms. Allison has been involved in more than 20 public offering processes and also has extensive transactional experience in venture capital and private equity and debt transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies. She has represented clients who have received funds from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Warburg Pincus, among others. Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Allison clerked in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1996 B.A., Political Science, Stanford University, 1993