Mark Baudler is a prominent attorney and partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm known for its corporate and securities practice. Mark has been with the firm since 1996 and has focused his legal practice on representing technology and growth companies at various developmental stages, from seed-stage start-ups and early-stage public companies to mature public companies. With his extensive legal knowledge, Mark is an expert in negotiating mergers and acquisitions transactions, public equity offerings, private placement equity and debt transactions, strategic alliances, spin-outs, recapitalizations, and other corporate reorganizations.

Mark's current clients cover a diverse range of industries, including digital media and entertainment, the Internet, SaaS, big data, mobile, data storage and cloud computing, software, FinTech, and other emerging technologies. His expertise has resulted in advising entrepreneurs on company formation, equity structures, and negotiations with seed and venture capital investors.

Mark also advises venture capital firms and other institutions investing in technology companies. Besides counseling on corporate governance responsibilities, equity incentive plans and arrangements, employment matters, intellectual property issues, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions, Mark is frequently invited to teach at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he taught a course titled “Venture Capital & the Start-Up Technology Company.”