| EXPERIENCE: Yoichiro (Yokum) Taku is a corporate and securities partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Yokum represents technology and growth companies at all stages of development, through private financings, strategic transactions, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents investors in venture capital financings. Yokum has advised numerous entrepreneurs from initial company formation to liquidity event. At any time, Yokum typically represents several start-up companies seeking venture financing, private companies that have received financing, and publicly traded companies. Yokum also leads Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Japan practice. He advises U.S. companies on their transactions in Japan, and Japanese companies on their transactions in the United States. Yokum also advises numerous companies with operations in Asia. Yokum worked at the Tokyo law firm of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 1994 and 1995. Yokum maintains a personal blog at www.startupcompanylawyer.com.
SELECT CLIENTS: - Alchip Technologies (semiconductor design)
- Chemoil (marine fuel)
- Clixtr (mobile photo sharing)
- Edufire (online education)
- GCA Savvian (investment bank)
- Moonshoot (virtual world)
- Private Access (healthcare information)
- Realcom (knowledge management)
- SK Telecom Americas (telecommunications)
- TheFunded Founder Institute (entrepreneur education)
- VantagePoint Venture Partners (venture fund)
- Winking Entertainment (video games)
- Yoics (remote access)
- Zenshin Capital Partners (venture fund)
 Yoichiro Taku
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SELECT TRANSACTIONS: - Represented companies that have been sold to Access, Cadence, EA, Earthlink, Fox Interactive Media, McAfee, Microsoft, Namco, Novellus, Nvidia, RockYou, Winbond, Yahoo!, and many others
- Represented issuer or underwriter in IPOs for Biopsys, Blaze Software, broadcast.com, Chemoil Energy, Convergent Group, Corsair, Ditech, drugstore.com, First Virtual, Hambrecht & Quist Group, Newgen Results, Packeteer, PeoplePC, Ramp Networks, Terayon, Xylan, and Zynga.
EDUCATION: - J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1993
- B.A., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1990
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: - Chairman, Angel Venture Financing Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Committee on Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Advisor, Strategic Venture Association
- Advisor, Stanford Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneur Society
- Board Member, Asian Law Alliance
- Board Member, Japanese American Chamber of Commerce of Silicon Valley
- Secretary, N! Leadership Network
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