Mark Baudler is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He has been an attorney in the firm's corporate securities practice since 1996.

Mark primarily represents technology and growth companies at all stages of their development, from seed-stage start-ups to early-stage public companies to more mature public companies. He structures, manages, and negotiates merger and acquisition transactions, public equity offerings, private placement equity and debt transactions, strategic alliances, spin-outs, recapitalizations, and other corporate reorganizations.

Mark regularly advises public and private companies and their management on a broad range of corporate matters, including corporate governance responsibilities, equity incentive plans and arrangements, employment matters, intellectual property issues, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions. In addition, he often counsels entrepreneurs on the formation of their companies, equity structures, and negotiations with seed and venture capital investors, as well as representing and advising venture capital firms and other institutions investing in technology companies.

Mark is currently an adjunct professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, where he teaches a course titled "Venture Capital & the Start-up Technology Company."