• Member, American Bar Association

• Listed in the 2013-2024 editions of Best Lawyers in America in the area of corporate law
• Selected for inclusion in the 2012-2021 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers

Representative Matters

• Scale Computing in its acquisition by Acumera

• Ampere Computing in its pending $6.5 billion acquisition by Softbank Group

• Hammerspace in its $100 million financing with Altimeter and other strategic investors

• SK Growth Acquisition Corporation in its SPAC merger with WeBull

• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Securities in the initial public offering of ServiceTitan

• Frequence, Inc. in its 2024 sale to Madhive
• The underwriters in Nextracker’s $660 million secondary offering
• MerQube, Inc. in multiple financings with strategic investors
• BlackSky Technology Inc. in its 2023 PIPE financing and ATM offering
• Ampere Computing LLC in multiple financings with strategic investors
• 4Me, Inc. in its sale to PSG
• The underwriters in Nextracker’s $700 million initial public offering
• The initial purchasers in Upwork, Inc’s $575 million senior convertible note financing
• Nightdragon Acquisition Corp. in its $300 million initial public offering
• Vectra AI in its $130 million preferred stock financing with Blackstone, TCV, Koshla Ventures, and other existing investors
• StockX in its $335 million preferred stock financing with Altimeter, Dragoneer, Capital Group, and existing investors
• CollectiveHealth in its $280 million preferred stock financing with HCSC and existing investors
• InTouch Health in its $1 billion sale to Teladoc
• fuboTV in its $400 million senior convertible note financing
• Sunrun in its $400 million senior convertible note financing
• Cloopen Group Holding Limited in its $368 million initial public offering
• fuboTV in its $200 million initial public offering
• The underwriters in Cambium Networks Corporation's initial public offering and follow-on public offerings
• The initial purchasers in The RealReal’s $150 million senior convertible note financing
• Podium in its $125 million preferred stock financing with YC and existing investors
• Vivint Solar, Inc. in its $4 billion merger with SunRun
• Vectra AI in its $100 million preferred stock financing with TCV
• The underwriters in The RealReal, Inc.'s $345 million initial public offering
• ASU Enterprise Partners in its collaboration with The Rise Fund to launch InStride
• The underwriters in Upwork, Inc.'s $215 million initial public offering
• The underwriters in Zuora, Inc.'s $177 million initial public offering
• Pluralsight, Inc. in its $358 million initial public offering
• Gigamon, Inc. in its $1.6 billion sale to Elliott Management, Evergreen Coast Capital, and Qatar Investment Authority
• Jive Software, Inc. in its sale to ESW Capital, LLC
• The initial purchasers in GoPro, Inc.'s $175 million convertible senior notes offering
• The underwriters in IronPlanet, Inc.'s initial public offering (sold to Ritchie Bros. in dual-track process)
• Hipmunk, Inc. in its sale to SAP
• Harmonic Inc. in its strategic warrant agreement with Comcast
• Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation in its $927 million secondary sale of American Homes 4 Rent Class A common shares
• Vormetric, Inc. in its $450 million sale to Thales
• comScore, Inc. in its acquisition of Rentrak
• Harmonic Inc. in its $125 million convertible senior notes offering
• comScore, Inc. in its strategic alliance with WPP's data investment management division, Kantar, and in the acquisition of certain of WPP's European internet audience measurement assets
• Vivint Solar, Inc. in its initial public offering
• The underwriters in GoPro, Inc.'s initial public offering and follow-on public offering
• Answers Corporation in its sale to Apax Partners
• Answers Corporation in its acquisition of ForeSee Results
• Fusion-io, Inc. in its sale to SanDisk Corporation
• Fusion-io, Inc. in its initial public offering and follow-on public offering
• AFCV Holdings in its acquisition of Answers Corporation
• Harmonic Inc. in its acquisition of Omneon
• Harmonic Inc. in its $150 million self-tender
• The underwriters in Proofpoint, Inc.'s initial public offering and convertible note offerings
• The underwriters in Guidewire, Inc.'s initial public offering and follow-on offering
• Cyan, Inc. in its initial public offering
• PayLease in its sale to Francisco Partners
• Sprinkles Cupcakes in its sale of controlling equity interests to Karp Reilly
• Jive Software, Inc. in its initial public offering
• Aviat Networks in activist defense
• Harmonic Inc. in activist defense
• comScore, Inc. in its initial public offering
• The underwriters in IPG Photonics' initial public offering and follow-on public offering
• Fusion-io, Inc. in its acquisition of io-Turbine
• The underwriters in Ancestry's initial public offering and follow-on public offerings 

Select Clients

Companies represented in public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate law and governance include:

• AFCV Holdings, LLC
• AlphaSmart, Inc.
• Ampere Computing
• Answers Corporation
• Aviat Networks, Inc.
• BlackSky Technology Inc.
• CollectiveHealth
• comScore, Inc.
• Cyan, Inc.
• Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.
• fuboTV, Inc.
• Fusion-io, Inc.
• Gigamon, Inc.
• Harmonic Inc.
• Inter-Tel, Incorporated
• InTouch Health
• International Manufacturing Services, Inc.
• Jive Software, Inc.
• McAfee, Inc.
• MerQube, Inc.
• Oportun Financial Corporation
• Pluralsight, Inc.
• Proxim Corporation
• SB Technology, Inc.
• ServiceTitan, Inc.
• Sipex Corporation
• StockX, Inc.
• Vectra AI, Inc.
• Vivint Solar, Inc.
• Vormetric, Inc.
• Yext, Inc.

Underwriters represented in public offerings include:

• BofA Securities
• Citigroup
• Credit Suisse
• Deutsche Bank Securities
• Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Jefferies
• J.P. Morgan
• Morgan Stanley
• UBS Investment Bank

Select Publications

• Co-author, The Initial Public Offering: A Guidebook for Executives and Boards of Directors, Third Edition, Bowne & Co., October 2008
• "Administrative Watchdogs or Zealous Advocates? Implications for Legal Ethics in the Face of Expanded Attorney Liability," 45 Stanford Law Review 645, 1993

Select Speaking Engagements

• Adjunct Visiting Lecturer, Capital Markets and Securities Regulation, Stanford Law School, Spring 2009
• Annual Ernst & Young IPO Transformation CEO Retreats
• Corporate Board Member's East Coast Peer Exchange and West Coast Peer Exchanges