Mr. Yaghmaie’s practice entails the representation of private and publicly-held emerging growth high technology and life science companies, leading investment banks and venture capital funds, with a particular focus on private placements and venture financings, public offerings of equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Yaghmaie is the head of the New York Corporate and Securities Technology group and head of the firm’s national Venture Capital practice.

Mr. Yaghmaie has been involved in many of the leading corporate and financing technology transactions in the New York area, and regularly represents numerous venture-backed companies and venture capital funds. Mr. Yaghmaie was recently recognized by Chambers USA as one of “Americas Leading Lawyers” and has been selected as a New York Super Lawyer.

Mr. Yaghmaie has represented both issuers and underwriters in more than 30 public offerings across a variety of industries, including public offerings by Albany Molecular Research, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Best Software, Emcore, Globix, Hologic, IDX, Innovasive Devices, Knight/Trimark, Media Metrix, MediciNova, Myriad Genetics, Predictive Systems, StarMedia, Technitrol, Tellium and Trimeris.

Mr. Yaghmaie has also served as counsel to many leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank Securities, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Goldman Sachs, Hambrecht & Quist, Morgan Stanley, Robertson Stephens, Cowen & Company and Thomas Weisel Partners. Mr. Yaghmaie has been named among the Top 100 IPO Lawyers in the United States.

Mr. Yaghmaie is a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute. His topics of instruction include venture capital, securities laws, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Yaghmaie has authored chapters in the Securities Filings volume entitled, "Compliance with the Securities Act in the Acquisition Context and in the Venture Capital: Nuts and Bolts volume entitled, “Venture-backed Company Structures 101: Basic Issues to Consider."

Mr. Yaghmaie also is amongst the authors of the widely-used book, Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business. He is a senior contributing editor of VC Experts' Venture Capital Encyclopedia.

Before joining Pillsbury, Mr. Yaghmaie was a co-founding partner of the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law

B.A., Emory University

Admissions

State of New York, Commonwealth of Massachusetts