Speaker 04.29.26
04.29
Deep Tech Connections - Alignment Summit
8:00AM - 8:00PM PDT
Santa Clara, CA
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Ranked among the Top 4 most active law firms for venture capital financings in the world, Pillsbury’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital team counsels high-growth enterprises and venture capital investors domestically and abroad.
Recently ranked by LSEG among the Top 4 most active law firms for venture capital financings in the world and among the Top 4 most active law firms in the world (for investor representation), entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and emerging growth companies rely on Pillsbury for advice on everything from company formation to financings, corporate governance, technology transactions, acquisitions, and public offerings. Our Emerging Companies & Venture Capital team is structured to grow with our clients. For newly established startups and emerging entities, our practice operates as a specialty boutique, assisting them with financing, structuring, and their other legal needs while positioning them for future success. As our clients grow, so does our team, providing the right lawyers to meet our clients’ specific needs at every stage of their development. With decades of experience, we have assisted thousands of entrepreneurs, startups and investors across fast-paced, developing industries.
We have taken shoestring startups to market-leading positions, regularly assisting in client fundraising efforts through venture financings, technology transactions and acquisitions as they grow. We help emerging company clients and investor clients analyze and navigate exit strategies, whether through an initial public offering or a strategic acquisition to accomplish their business objectives.
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We counsel a wide range of high-growth enterprises and institutional investors throughout the United States and abroad. We have assisted numerous companies in technology, life sciences and other sectors at every stage of their life cycle, helping them analyze capitalization structures, develop employee incentive and stock arrangements, and evaluate financing alternatives—including venture capital opportunities, government funding sources, and other institutional investors. Our team draws on the experience of more than 300 technology and intellectual property lawyers and leverages the firm’s strengths in general corporate law, technology licensing, cross-border transactions, and state and federal securities laws to provide comprehensive legal services. We also have extensive experience in areas such as executive and employee compensation, tax, privacy and data protection, export controls, outsourcing, and cyber insurance. We offer deep experience in:
Further, our investor relationships are an asset in assisting the companies we represent, as we facilitate business introductions when we see opportunities for collaboration. Our experience with investors—whether representing them or the companies in which they invest—has provided us with insights to better assist both venture capital fund clients and company clients in obtaining, evaluating and structuring their financing.
In recent years, we have completed over $20 billion in venture financings and have stewarded many unicorns as well as emerging companies from formation to valuations in excess of $1 billion. Some of our relationships include:
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