Richa Sharma is senior counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on corporate and securities transactions in the technology sector. Her clients include a variety of emerging growth companies, mid-to-late-stage private companies, and public companies. She regularly represents companies across all aspects of their life cycle, including private financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC compliance, and 1934 Act issues.
Richa Sharma is senior counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on corporate and securities transactions in the technology sector. Her clients include a variety of emerging growth companies, mid-to-late-stage private companies, and public companies. She regularly represents companies across all aspects of their life cycle, including private financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC compliance, and 1934 Act issues.
- J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, 2017
- B.A., Georgetown University, 2013
- State Bar of California
- J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, 2017
- B.A., Georgetown University, 2013
- State Bar of California
Select Public Offering Representations
- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the initial public offering of ServiceTitan
- Spire Global in its de-SPAC transaction
- DoorDash in its $3.4 billion initial public offering
- Sumo Logic in its initial public offering and $1.7 billion acquisition by Francisco Partners
- Lyft in its $2.6 billion initial public offering
Select Financing Transactions
- Uniphore in its $260 million Series F equity financing
- Clio in its $900 million Series F equity financing
- Astranis in its $200 million Series D equity financing
- Flock Safety in multiple late-stage equity financings
Select Public Offering Representations
- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the initial public offering of ServiceTitan
- Spire Global in its de-SPAC transaction
- DoorDash in its $3.4 billion initial public offering
- Sumo Logic in its initial public offering and $1.7 billion acquisition by Francisco Partners
- Lyft in its $2.6 billion initial public offering
Select Financing Transactions
- Uniphore in its $260 million Series F equity financing
- Clio in its $900 million Series F equity financing
- Astranis in its $200 million Series D equity financing
- Flock Safety in multiple late-stage equity financings
The company aims to dramatically accelerate technological and scientific progress by automating complex science and engineering tasks. Specifically, it is developing advanced AI systems that leverage massive computational scale to fundamentally transform the speed and efficiency of innovation by automating complete experimental loops. In conjunction with its launch, Discovery Loop has established a long-term partnership with Alphabet for cloud and compute resources.
The Wilson Sonsini team advising Discovery Loop on its launch and initial financing includes Lang Liu, Barath Chari, Alyssa Worsham, Richa Sharma, Sunny Kumar, Will Andrews, MJ Han, Jing Xu, Robert Deng, Jason Choi, and Patrick Begian.
For more information, please see coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Wired.