Speaker 11.21.25
11.21
Middle East Startup Pitches and Fireside Chat
4:30PM - 7:00PM PST
Mediha Ali focuses on securities transactions and general corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financings, as well as other transactional matters.
Mediha advises entrepreneurs and startup companies across a variety of industries through all stages of their lifecycle, including formation, seed and venture capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions. She also advises public and private companies of all sizes in their mergers and acquisitions, including asset purchases, spin-offs, acqui-hires and other transactional matters. Mediha also has experience representing venture capital investors and funds.
Prior to the practice of law, Mediha served as an international diplomat at Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the United Nations, where she worked on matters under the purview of the Security Council, the Peacebuilding Commission and the General Assembly.
Representative Experience
- Represented Taulia, Inc. in its acquisition by SAP SE.
- Represented Support.com in its merger with bitcoin mining company Greenidge Generation Holdings.
- Represented McWin Capital Partners in its investment in EVERY Company’s $175 million Series C financing and Oishii’s $134 million Series B funding round.
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- Representative Mergers & Acquisitions Experience
- Represented The Appointment Group LLC, a subsidiary of UK-based parent company (TAG), in connection with TAG’s acquisition by ECI Partners.
- Represented Airgap Networks Inc. in its acquisition of NetSpyGlass’ assets and team and in its acquisition by Zscaler, Inc.
- Represented Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd in its acquisition of FBSciences Holdings, Inc.
- Represented Normalyze, Inc. in its acquisition by Proofpoint, Inc.
- Represented BluBracket, Inc. in its acquisition by HashiCorp, Inc.
- Represented Nod, Inc. in its acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Represented Pluribus Networks, Inc. in its acquisition by Arista Networks, Inc.
- Represented Tremor International Ltd. in its acquisition of Amobee Inc. for $239 million, a deal that was honored as the M&A Atlas 2023 Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year.
- Represented Clinscience, subsidiary of Poland-based pharmaceutical distributor NEUCA Group, in its partnership with OncoBay and in its investment agreement to acquire 51% of shares in Agati Systems.
- Represented Concentrix Corporation in its acquisition of ServiceSource International, Inc. for $131 million.
- Represented Provino Technologies, Inc. in its acquisition by Google Inc.
- Represented Netskope, Inc. in its acquisition of Kloudless.
- Represented Reflektion, Inc. in its acquisition by Sitecore.
- Represented CloudVector in its acquisition by Imperva.
- Represented Nexant, Inc. in its acquisition by Resource Innovations.
- Represented Barefoot Networks, Inc. in its acquisition by Intel.
- Represented Vital Therapies, Inc. in its acquisition of all the outstanding shares in Immunic AG.
- Represented Sigma Designs, Inc. in the sale of its Z-Wave Business to Silicon Labs for $282 million, a deal that was honored as the 2018 Corporate M&A Deal of the Year ($100M–$500M) by M&A Atlas Americas Awards.
- Represented NetSpeed Systems, Inc. in its acquisition by Intel Corporation.
- Represented Identiv, Inc. in its acquisition of 3VR Security, Inc.
- Represented Solium in its acquisition of Capshare, Inc.
- Representative VC Financings Experience
- Represented Rivos, Inc. in its $250 million Series A-3 financing as well as its prior funding rounds.
- Represented Enfabrica Corporation in its $115 million Series C financing and $125 million Series B financing round.
- Represented Alkira, Inc. in its $100 million Series C financing and strategic investment from LIAN Group.
- Represented Arrcus, Inc. in its $50 million Series D equity round.
- Represented Komprise, Inc. in its $37 million financing round.
- Represented HYPR Corp. in its $35 million Series C financing and $25 million Series C1 financing.
- Represented Orkes Inc. in its $9.3 million funding round.
- Represented Alokai Inc. (formerly known as Vue Storefront Inc.) in its $17.4 million Series A financing.
- Represented Prosimo Inc. in its $30 million Series B financing and $25 million Series A financing.
- Represented Liberty City Ventures in Reposite’s $2.5 million Series Seed financing.
- Represented Premji Invest/Hasham Traders in Mapbox’s $120 million Series D financing.
Professional Highlights
- Managing editor, Santa Clara Journal of International Law
Education
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J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
Cum Laude, Order of the CoifM.P.A., San Jose State University
M.A., Economics, Government College University Lahore
B.A., Economics, University of the Punjab
Admissions
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California