Baird Garrett
Attorney
Location / Wyoming
Phone / (650) 331-2802
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State Bar of California
W.H. Baird Garrett is a VLP Partner based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Baird has over 12 years of experience in providing legal counsel to venture-backed and publicly traded technology companies on a wide range of domestic and international transactions in the software (including open source), telecommunications, Internet, new media and interactive advertising industries. Baird has extensive experience providing counsel to clients in the development, acquisition, commercialization, protection, licensing and disposition of intellectual property assets. Baird has represented clients in the negotiation of commercial transactions involving the manufacturing, distribution, outsourcing, supply, licensing and sale of technology products and services, and advised clients on intellectual property and technology matters in connection with joint ventures, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. Among the clients Baird has represented are Apptera, Inc., Borland Software, Corp., Definiens, Inc., Intelligence Gaming, Inc., Juniper Networks, Inc., Neohapsis, Inc., Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., Redback Networks, Inc., SpringSource, Inc., Vusion, Inc. and Walt Disney Corporation. Baird has represented clients in transactions with AOL, AMD, AT&T, Bank of America, eBay, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Hewlet Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, UBS, Verizon and many other Fortune 500 and smaller companies.
Baird began his career at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati in Palo Alto, CA and Seattle, WA, in the firm's Technology Transactions group, before establishing his own successful practice. Baird also served as Vice President and General Counsel of GreatLodge.com, Inc., and as Legal Counsel Technology for Baan Company, NV. Prior to joining Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, Baird clerked for the Honorable Jack B. Jacobs on the Delaware Court of Chancery. Baird holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an Editor and member of the Articles Review Board of the Virginia Law Review, and recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Baird also holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University. Baird is a member of the State Bar of California. Baird is Chairman of the Jackson Hole Wine Auction, one of the largest charity wine auctions in the United States, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Grand Teton Music Festival, which has provided vital music to the Jackson Hole community, and funded music education in local schools, for nearly fifty years. Baird is also an avid alpine and backcountry skier, cyclist and backpacker.