Stoel Rives Adds Mark Bonham to Corporate Group in Salt Lake City

5/9/17

Corporate and litigation law firm focused on technology, energy, natural resources, environmental law and climate change adds Of Counsel lawyer to Corporate Group

Stoel Rives LLP, an Am Law 200 law firm, is pleased to announce that Mark Bonham has joined the firm in the Salt Lake City office. Bonham will focus his practice on providing corporate legal counsel to technology companies and emerging businesses.

“Mark is well-known in the Salt Lake City region due to his emerging business and venture capital experience,” said Stoel Rives Corporate Group leader Jason M. Brauser. “He has worked with numerous tech start-ups and emerging businesses, and has extensive experience in financing, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions.”

Bonham formerly was a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he served corporate clients for 20 years in California and Utah. Thereafter, he and four other executives formed an emerging business consultancy, SageCreek Partners LLC, which advised technology companies in all stages of business from start-up to growth and succession. He has served as general counsel and chief privacy officer of an innovative software company and as the director of a leading networking tools software company.

Scott F. Young, Salt Lake City Office Managing Partner of Stoel Rives said, “We are pleased to welcome Mark to our corporate group. His depth of knowledge in corporate law, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and business strategy will be of great value to Stoel Rives’ clients.”

“It is a pleasure to join such a well-regarded and market-leading law firm,” said Bonham. “I look forward to working with a firm rooted in a client-first, client value philosophy. I hope to make the most of my decades of experience in the technology industry and with emerging businesses by serving as a strategic partner to our clients.”

A magna cum laude graduate and Trustees Scholar of Brigham Young University, Bonham earned a juris doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics. He has been listed in Chambers USA as one of America’s Leading Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Capital Markets Lawyers in Utah. Bonham has achieved an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell®, and has been listed among the Legal Elite and Utah Super Lawyers®. In addition, he has been awarded Utah Corporate Lawyer of the Year and Salt Lake City Area M&A Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers®.

Bonham resides in Alpine, Utah with his wife of more than three decades, Kelly. They are active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for which Bonham recently served as president of its Washington Everett Mission.

About Stoel Rives LLP: Stoel Rives is a leading U.S. corporate and litigation law firm. One of the largest national firms focused on energy, natural resources, environmental law and climate change, Stoel Rives also serves the agribusiness, food and beverage, health care, life sciences and technology industries. With more than 350 attorneys operating out of 10 offices in seven states and the District of Columbia, Stoel Rives is a leader in regulatory and compliance matters, business, labor and employment law, intellectual property, land use, real estate development and construction law.

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