Gregory Lewis Watts

Working out of the firm’s Seattle and Salt Lake City offices, Greg Watts is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on securities and complex commercial litigation. For over 25 years, Greg has specialized in counseling and defending companies and their directors and officers in securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, contested mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings, and internal investigations.

Greg is the author of Director and Officer Liability, 4th Ed., published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI). Greg has represented clients in over 125 securities, shareholder, and corporate governance matters. He has had exceptional success in winning securities class action and shareholder derivative lawsuits, including most recently for Blucora, Costco Wholesale, Domo, eHealth, Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Globus Medical, Isoray, Mentor Graphics, Novan, PowerSecure International, Seagen, Starbucks, and Sterling Financial. Due to his expertise, Greg has represented clients around the country in federal and state courts, including in Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Washington.