Mr. Frahn is a Partner in the Firm’s litigation department.  His areas of practice are intellectual property, antitrust and securities litigation. 

Mr. Frahn has first-chair jury trial experience.  He has litigated numerous complex, high-technology cases, including a trial win for Daiichi Pharmaceutical on a drug patent.  Mr. Frahn has represented Cisco, Intel, NEC, Xilinx, Accenture, Avistar Communications, JDS Uniphase, Nidek, and Synchrologic.  Mr. Frahn’s antitrust experience includes a number of cases for technology clients, and he currently represents Elpida Memory in one of the largest criminal price-fixing investigations in history.  Mr. Frahn has also represented clients such as Silver Lake, Accel-KKR and Goldman Sachs in numerous cases related to mergers or acquisitions.  Mr. Frahn represents such clients as the Blackstone Group, BroadVision, Clorox, CSFB, KKR, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Oracle (special litigation committee), in a number of commercial disputes and internal investigations, both in court and arbitration, domestic and internationally. 

Mr. Frahn began practicing law in Simpson Thacher’s New York office in 1996 and was one of the founding members of the Palo Alto office in 1999.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1989, where he was an Echols Scholar, and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1996, where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review and awarded the Order of the Coif.  He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of California and New York, in the 2nd and 9th Circuits, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Publications

•	The Heightened Pleading Standard of Twombly Applies to All Federal Civil Claims
•	"The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay," In Patent Remedies: Contemporary Approaches.
•	First U.K. Criminal Charges Are Brought Against Cartel Participants Following DOJ Plea Agreements in the U.S.
•	EU Commission Dawn Raids Companies for Alleged Gun-Jumping Violations
•	In re Seagate: A New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement
•	The European Court of First Instance Upholds the European Commission’s Finding that Microsoft Abused its Dominant Position
•	eBay: The Final Word?
•	The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay
•	Supreme Court Holds That Minimum Resale Price Maintenance is Not a Per Se Violation of Antitrust Law
•	Supreme Court Rules that IPO Litigation is Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness
•	Microsoft v. AT&T: Limiting the Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patent Law

Speaking Engagements

•	Buzz Frahn Speaks at PLI's "Open Source and Free Software 2009" Conference December 11, 2009

Admissions

•	New York 1997
•	California 2000
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1997
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1998
•	U.S. District Court Central District of California 2000
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of California 2000
•	U.S. District Court Northern District of California 2000
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of California 2000
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit 2000
•	U.S. Supreme Court 2007

Education

•	Vanderbilt University Law School, 1996 J.D. Order of the Coif; Vanderbilt Law Review, Articles Editor 1995-1996
•	University of Virginia, 1989 B.A. Echols Scholar