On February 3, 2023, the Silicon Valley Business Journal ( SVBJ ) published its inaugural Power 100 list, comprising the most important and influential business people working in Silicon Valley. Unlike other SVBJ lists, the Power 100 is not limited to people of a certain age, gender, ethnicity, or by the type of business they operate—it instead is an all-encompassing round-up of the area’s most preeminent leaders. Wilson Sonsini Managing Partner Doug Clark has been recognized in the Power 100 list, where he is described as a specialist in securities matters, having represented defendants in more than 70 class and derivative actions as a litigator. In addition to leading the Bay Area’s largest firm by number of locally-based lawyers for the last 11 years, Doug led the firm during its representation of LinkedIn in its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft Inc. in 2016, and more recently, Twitter in its $44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk. Doug is joined in the Power 100 by leaders like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (general partners, a16z), Tim Cook (CEO, Apple), David Entwistle (CEO, Stanford Health Care), Jensen Huang (CEO, Nvidia), Pat Gelsinger (CEO, Intel), Sundar Pichai (CEO, Alphabet and Google), Susan Wojcicki […]