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Armando Castro, Partner

Armando Castro

Partner
Silicon Valley

Partner, Silicon Valley

T: +1.650.233.4040
T: +1.650.233.4040

Areas of Focus

Armando Castro is a partner in Pillsbury’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital group. With a diverse practice, he represents clients ranging from formation-stage to mature public companies.

Armando also represents the boards of directors, investors and investment banks that invest and work with those companies. His industry background includes financial technologies and payment systems, cybersecurity, software, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, renewable energy, enterprise and telecom networking, wireless technologies and semiconductors. He has represented clients in domestic and international matters of many types. Experienced in both in-house counsel and law firm environments, he is also a certified public accountant.

Representative Experience

  • Represent Premji Invest/Hasham Traders in over a dozen financings, including EQRx’s $500 million Series B financing, Iora Health’s $125 million Series F financing, Moderna Therapeutics’ $500 million Series G financing, Carta’s $200 million Series F financing, Icertis’ $80 million Series F financing, Innovium’s $170 million financing, Looker Data Sciences’ $103 million Series E financing, Anaplan, Inc.’s $60 million Series F financing, and Mapbox’s $120 million Series D financing.
  • Formation of Cullgen Inc. and GNI Group Limited and subsequent representation of financings and licensing, and more recently its $50 million Series B financing led by 3E Bioventures Capital.
  • Represented SmartPlay Global PCC in its sale to Aricent.

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  • Represented HealthQuest Capital as lead investor in connection with its investment in Inbound Health’s $30 million Series B financing round.
  • General corporate representation, including all financing transactions, for eMint Ltd. and SS8 Networks Inc.
  • Represented MoBolt Inc. in its sale to Indeed Inc.
  • Directly advise the board of directors for a majority of clients on matters of corporate governance and all significant transactions.
  • Represent and counsel companies raising investment capital, and their boards of directors, investors, placement agents and underwriters, with a track record of approximately 60 public offerings and over 500 private placements.
  • Counsel approximately 25 different publicly traded companies with respect to SEC and stock exchange requirements.
  • Represent both acquiring and target companies in M&A transactions, handling more than 100 corporate reorganizations, mergers and asset acquisitions.
  • As general counsel for Cyras Systems Inc., served as primary legal advisor to company’s board of directors and management team for all legal matters, including its $2.7 billion merger with Ciena.

Professional Highlights

Honors & Awards

  • Recognized by Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC), Corporate Law (2022 – 2024).
  • The Legal 500 U.S., Venture Capital and Emerging Companies (2015)

Associations

  • Hispanic National Bar Foundation, treasurer and board member

Education

  • J.D., Stanford Law School

    B.S., Loyola Marymount University

Admissions

  • California

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