Jon B. Fougner

Jon B. Fougner, a senior associate at Freshfields 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. His experience includes coordinated and multidistrict litigations in technical industries involving 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 the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and the Yale Law Journal.

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 duties, expert witnesses in securities class actions, and attorney-client privilege.