Jeffrey R. Vetter is a partner in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP. The firm specializes in a full array of services to high technology companies, including Internet companies, computer software and electronics corporations, telecommunications companies, digital media companies, semiconductor manufacturers and medical device and biotechnology companies. Mr. Vetter's practice concentrates on public and private offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, counseling public and late-stage private companies, and other securities law matters.
Mr. Vetter’s recent public offerings include Workday, Facebook, Proofpoint, Fusion-io, Jive
Software, Responsys, SuccessFactors and ShoreTel. He has worked on more than 45 IPOs
during his career. Mr. Vetter also represents underwriters of numerous initial public offerings,
including the initial public offerings of Marin Software, Model N, Jive Software, Fusion-io,
Salesforce.com, Omniture, and has experience with other public and private offerings of debt
and equity securities and stock exchange listings, including the listing of SuccessFactors on
the NYSE, NYSE Euronext and Frankfurt Stock Exchange, corporate governance matters and
joint ventures. Mr. Vetter's mergers and acquisitions transaction experience includes the
acquisition of SuccessFactors by SAP, Plateau Systems by SuccessFactors, the sale of
Omneon to Harmonic, Postini to Google, VeriSign's acquisition of Network Solutions and
Illuminet Holdings, @Home Corporation's acquisition of Excite, and a large number of other
transactions involving public and/or private companies.
Mr. Vetter has also advised companies with respect to corporate governance and SEC
matters, activist stockholders and joint ventures. He also advises a variety of late-stage private
companies.
Mr. Vetter was named a 2012 Attorney of the Year by The Recorder and is listed in Chambers
USA for capital markets: debt & equity, U.S. News – Best Lawyers® for securities and capital
markets law and is repeatedly selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super
Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters publication.
Prior to joining Fenwick & West in 1995, Mr. Vetter represented public companies and
financial institutions in a wide range of corporate finance, lending and merger and acquisition
transactions.
Mr. Vetter received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley,
graduating with a B.A., with honors and with distinction, in 1987. He attended law school at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, graduating with a J.D., magna cum
laude, in 1990. He also served on the Hastings Law Journal and was named to the Order of
the Coif.