Mr. Gump is located in the New York and San Francisco offices of Pillsbury. His practice focuses on debt and equity finance for unregistered offerings, venture capital, private equity and corporate transactions and governance.

Mr. Gump regularly represents leading domestic and international financial institutions as well as borrowers in secured and unsecured commercial loans, leveraged and unleveraged equipment leases, structured finance transactions, venture debt facilities, project finance matters, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine loans, syndicated loan facilities, trade finance facilities, and other matters governed by the Uniform Commercial Code, in transactions valued at between $5 million to $800 million. In the area of real estate finance, Mr. Gump represents commercial lenders, pension funds and real estate developers in real property secured loan transactions, including mezzanine, construction and conduit loans.

With respect to venture capital, Mr. Gump has represented issuers and institutional and corporate venture capital funds in private placements of securities raising in excess of $1 billion for new business ventures, with particular emphasis on the semiconductor and financial services industries,

Mr. Gump's transactional experience also includes leveraged buy-outs, private resales of restricted stock, mergers, stock and asset purchases, joint ventures and other strategic business arrangements, with special emphasis on the internet, energy and financial services industries.

Before joining the firm in 1999, Mr. Gump was a member of the corporate finance group at Siemens, A.G. headquarters in Munich, Germany, where his work focused on the business aspects of raising debt and equity financing for new telecommunications ventures in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Far East.

Following law school, Mr. Gump served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Loren A. Smith, Chief Judge of the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. In addition to his clerk duties, Mr. Gump assisted the court in connection with successful law reform efforts which resulted in the passage of federal legislation to consolidate bid protest jurisdiction in the US Court of Federal Claims.

Mr. Gump was a Primary Contributor with respect to the 2005 Report of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, “Legal Opinions in Business Transactions (excluding the Remedies Opinion).

Mr. Gump is a member of the New York Bar, California Bar and the  District of Columbia Bar.

“Down Rounds: What you Don't Know Can Cost You in Equity (or in court)”, VC Experts, May 7, 2003

“California Secured Transactions under Revised Division 9 of the California Commercial Code”, Santa Clara Bar Association, May 6, 2003

“Online Banking and Alternative Online Payment Mechanisms,” Fifth Annual Internet Law Institute Practicing Law Institute, July 23, 2001

Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, 1995-1996; Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow Alumni Organization, 1996–present.

Law Clerk, Chambers of the Honorable Loren A. Smith, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Washington, DC, 1993-1994