Jon B. Fougner

Jon B. Fougner, a senior associate at Freshfields US LLP in Redwood City, California, serves clients in securities litigation and M&A. He represents companies, officers, and directors in high-stakes shareholder and fiduciary-duty litigation. His practice involves complex disputes, class and non-class cases, and trials and appeals in state and federal courts and arbitration. His work includes defending technology companies and executives in securities litigation, securing dismissals in shareholder derivative litigation and obtaining expedited relief from the Delaware Court of Chancery.  He handles books-and-records demands and has represented clients in California state-court merger litigation, winning summary judgment. Hisprior experience in coordinated and multidistrict litigations includes antitrust cases in science, engineering, and medicine. He also helps venture-capital and private-equity funds and technology companies avoid court in the first place.At Yale Law School, he was awarded the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize in law and economics and the William K.S. Wang Prize for corporate law.  He served on theYale Journal on Regulation, theYale Journal of Law & Technology, and theYale Law Journal.  Before law school, he advised financial-technology businesses at Goldman Sachs and contributed to the development of Facebook's social advertising platform.  He has received patents for inventions in dispute resolution.Jon is admitted to practice in New York, California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and all four United States District Courts in California.  He served as a summer clerk to the Honorable Susan G. Braden of the United States Court of Federal Claims.  He is an active CLE presenter on boards' fiduciary duty, expert witnesses in securities class actions, and attorney-client privilege.Jon's pro bono work serves under-resourced local entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, in collaboration with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.