# Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ("WSGR") is the national technology-focused law firm whose attorneys serve as the **signatories / organizers of record** on the Arkansas Google-linked data-center shell entities. Its appearance in the DEE-DEQ production is the **Tier-1 Arkansas confirmation of the professional role** of the two recurring shell-officers, [[Michael Montfort]] and [[David Thomas]] — the question the [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] / [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] line had bracketed. ## Roles in this corpus - **[[David Thomas]] is a WSGR attorney.** [[GROOT LLC]]'s Delegation of Authority delegates signing authority to *"David Thomas, Attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati"* and provides that the delegation auto-revokes if *"the Authorized Signatory is no longer … an employee of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati"* ([[Project Pyramid SEEK Construction-Stormwater Records]], `Groot LLC - DOA - David Thomas.docx.pdf`, p. 1). - **[[Michael Montfort]] uses a WSGR email.** Montfort signs Groot's SEEK construction-stormwater submissions and is the addressee of the [[Project Pyramid Title V Air Permit (2507-AOP-R0)|Title V air permit]] as "Manager," from **`[email protected]`** (Wilson Sonsini's domain). ## Why it matters [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] identified **Montfort's (and Thomas's) professional role** as "the rate-limiting fact for the whole T003 line": if the recurring officers were *in-house* personnel of a principal, the multi-shell cluster would be probative of a common principal; if they were *outside formation counsel*, the cluster proves far less. This production answers it at Tier-1 — **both are Wilson Sonsini lawyers**, i.e., **outside formation/transaction counsel acting as nominees**, not beneficial principals. That **vindicates the wiki's restraint** on naming Montfort/Thomas as principals and is fully consistent with the [[D006 Synthesis]] characterization of a "documented multi-state Google-linked nominee apparatus." Crucially, **WSGR's involvement does not name the beneficial principal** of the Conway/Port shells ([[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] / [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] / [[Spark Innovations, LLC]]). A law firm acting as organizer/signatory is exactly the kind of vendor relationship the [[D006 Synthesis|D006]] verdict held cannot, by itself, un-bracket the attribution — so the [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] status is unchanged. ## Notes WSGR represents many technology companies; its appearance as Groot's counsel is consistent with — but does not by itself prove — the confirmed-Google character of the West Memphis site (which rests on other Tier-1 channels). The earlier Tier-3 reporting that [[Michael Montfort]] and [[David Thomas]] recur as officers across ~7 Google-data-center LLCs in four states (STLPR/KCUR, 2025-09-08) now has a Tier-1 Arkansas anchor for the firm affiliation.