Established in 1980, Cooley Godward Kronish’s Palo Alto offices have served a vital role in our emergence as one of the preeminent firms serving the legal needs of a wide spectrum of private and public companies and the venture capital community. Our deep roots in and historic ties to the Silicon Valley have enabled our attorneys to develop a unique understanding of the business and legal challenges that emerging companies deal with daily. Beyond the myriad start-up companies that our Palo Alto offices service so deftly, our Silicon Valley-based attorneys team with others across the Firm in our representation of mature Fortune 1000 companies, such as Adobe Systems, Applied Materials, Brunswick Corporation, Cisco Systems, eBay, Gilead Sciences, Inc., NVIDIA, PG&E and USG.