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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/style/weddings-allison-berry-steven-spinner.html
WEDDINGS; Allison Berry, Steven Spinner
Published: March 10, 2002
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Allison Lynn Berry, the daughter of Susan and Brian Berry of Murrells Inlet, S.C., is to be married today to Steven Jonathan Spinner, a son of Paula Spinner and Dr. Morton Spinner of North Woodmere, N.Y. Rabbi David Steinhardt will perform the ceremony at the B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla.
The bride, 30, is an associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm in Palo Alto, Calif. She graduated from Stanford and Columbia Law School. Her father retired as the owner of B. Berry’s, a former men’s clothing store in Columbia, S.C., that was founded in 1898 by her great-grandfather Barney Berry.
The bridegroom, 32, is a media, technology and entertainment consultant in Menlo Park, Calif. He graduated from Wesleyan University, was a Henry Luce Scholar in Hong Kong and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. His father is a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. A retired hand surgeon, Dr. Spinner had a practice in Cedarhurst, N.Y., which was managed by the bridegroom’s mother, also retired.
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Allison Berry Spinner
Partner
Corporate Finance
Corporate Law & Governance
Energy & Clean Technology
Entrepreneurial Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
EXPERIENCE:
Allison Berry Spinner is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focuses on corporate and securities transactions in the energy and clean technology sector, as well as the software, networking, wireless communications, semiconductor, Internet, consumer goods, and retail industries. She regularly handles corporate governance matters for public and private companies, investment banks, and venture capital and private equity firms.
Allison is a leader of the firm’s capital markets practice. Her recent experience includes the representation of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a number of underwriters in the initial public offerings of Amyris, Inc. and Solazyme Inc., two of the leading clean tech IPOs in recent years. She also has extensive transactional experience in venture capital and public and private equity and debt transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies. She has represented clients who have received funds from Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Warburg Pincus, among others.
Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, she clerked in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
SELECT CLIENTS:
Amobee
Blade Network Technologies (sold to IBM)
BrightGrid
Caitin
Carbon Motors Corporation
Ecologic Brands
HCL CleanTech
Ingres Corporation
Nexant
QuantumScape Corporation
Serious Materials
Tapulous (sold to Disney)
Tula Technology
EDUCATION:
J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1996
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Managing Editor, Columbia Law Review
B.A., Political Science, Stanford University, 1993
With Distinction
SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
Moderator, “Investor Perspectives,” Next Generation Bio-Based Chemicals Summit, San Diego, California, February 14-17, 2011
Moderator, “The Road to IPO,” Next Generation Bio-Based Chemicals Summit, San Diego, California, February 14-17, 2011
Panelist, “Rise of Super Angels and Seed Investment Funds,” Advanced Venture Capital, Practising Law Institute, December 2010
Panelist, “The Rules, the Players and the Annual SEC Filings; Executive Compensation Disclosure, the Quarterly Report and Practical Tips,” Year-End and Quarterly Reporting, Practising Law Institute, September 2010
ADMISSIONS:
State Bar of California
Firm Represents Solyndra in First-Ever Close
of a DOE Loan Guarantee
On September 3, 2009, Solyndra became the first company to complete a U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee transaction under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati assisted Solyndra in negotiating the $535 million guaranteed loan facility and an associated equity financing to fund Solyndra’s construction of a $733 million solar panel manufacturing plant that will expand its manufacturing capacity in California, creating thousands of new jobs.
The completion of the transaction was announced by Vice President Joe Biden participating via satellite at a groundbreaking ceremony on September 4 at the project site in Fremont. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger were also in attendance.
The Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, along with programs offering tax credits and other incentives, is intended to promote the commercial use of innovative energy technologies. Over the course of their lifetime, Solyndra’s manufacturing facilities are expected to produce enough solar panels to cut over 350 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Please click here to read the Solyndra press release.
Yes, Spinner’s wife worked for the firm that represented Solynda. WH logs from late 2009 to early 2010 show a LOT of visits by Spinner.
Some more info over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2779904/posts