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Justin Bastian, a partner in Morrison & Foerster's Palo Alto office, is a corporate lawyer with extensive securities compliance and corporate finance and M&A experience. In addition to regularly representing public companies in their public reporting and compliance issues, Mr. Bastian has undertaken company-side and banker-side representations to complete over 75 public offerings involving companies in a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, software, communications, computer, Internet and REITs. Mr. Bastian has counseled numerous companies and all major investment banks in connection with various preferred stock offerings and convertible and high-yield debt financings.

Mr. Bastian’s extensive experience in advising public companies includes '34 Act reporting and disclosure issues such as Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K; Regulation FD; Regulation G; Section 16; as well as the myriad disclosure and compliance issues in corporate governance under Sarbanes-Oxley. Representative public company clients Mr. Bastian has advised include: Electroglas, Inc.; Semitool, Inc.; Novellus Systems, Inc.; JDS Uniphase; Merix Corp.; O2 Micro International Limited; Sonics, Inc.; PLX Technology, Inc.; Pericom Semiconductor Corporation; Micrel Inc.; Aerocentruy Corp.; Spieker Properties; Essex Property Trust, Inc.; and Glenborough Realty Trust.

Mr. Bastian regularly counsels public and private companies, venture funds and investment banking firms in general corporate, transactional and securities disclosure and compliance issues. He advises the management and boards of directors of public companies in strategic and corporate issues related to the growth of their businesses.

Mr. Bastian regularly lectures at seminars and conferences on various '33 Act and '34 Act law matters, and is a Staff member of the Practicing Law Institute specializing in '34 Act reporting and Section 16.

Mr. Bastian was born in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1960. He received his B.A. in Economics in 1984 and his M.B.A and J.D. degrees, magna cum laude, in 1991 from Brigham Young University.