Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has spent the past year trying to back away from the stock option backdating mess, but an internal e-mail now in regulators' hands is making it hard. The e-mail, unearthed by an SEC subpoena, kicks off what's sure to be an unpleasant process for Silicon Valley's top firm and for Larry Sonsini. Complicating matters is the fact that, according to SEC records, Sonsini and his firm may have profited immensely from stock awards by companies that admit to rampant improprieties.
March 29, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has spent the past year trying to back away from the metastasizing stock option backdating mess, but an internal e-mail now in regulators’ hands is making it difficult.
In a 2004 message, Wilson Sonsini lawyer Roger Stern asks his partner to dig up a document from the time when a client was “using the time machine to pick low strike prices.”
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