Fenwick & West, LLP
Dedicated to helping technology and life sciences companies thrive at every stage of growth, we are inspired by our clients and driven toward their success.
Goodwin
Growth. Performance. Managing risk. However you define it, success in today’s global and digital age means addressing increasingly complex issues faster and more efficiently amid rapid change. Making the right decisions in this environment requires strategic counsel from an advisor who not only knows how laws are evolving in jurisdictions around the world, but also has a deep understanding of your particular industry. This is Goodwin.
We are a global 50 law firm with a history of working on groundbreaking matters, and an increasingly focused approach to working with clients in the financial, private equity, real estate, technology and life sciences industries. Our more than 1,400 corporate and litigation attorneys leverage their specific experience and assemble full-service teams to advise clients in these and adjacent industries
Kilpatrick Townsend
Kilpatrick Townsend’s start-up team specializes in advising entrepreneurs who want to rapidly scale new businesses by accessing private investment from friends and family, high net worth individuals and/or venture capital or private equity firms. Using experience gained working with hundreds of emerging companies, we provide first-time and serial entrepreneurs with timely legal advice on a wide range of matters, including choice of entity, corporate formation, founders share issuances and restrictions, stock option plans and appropriate uses of equity-based compensation, negotiation of debt and equity financing terms, board composition and governance, licensing and commercial transactions and agreements, and exits by asset sale, merger or acquisition, or initial public offering.
Littler
With a singular focus on labor and employment law, our team is better equipped to serve your business. Why? Because our experience is vast and our knowledge is deep. For more than 75 years, we’ve focused exclusively on labor and employment law. But we realize it’s not enough to know just the law – we have to know your business, too. By understanding your challenges and opportunities, we can tackle everything from simple questions to complex litigation needs with the same rigor and nuanced approach. And, we can respond to each of your questions – not just with an answer, but with your answer.
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
With robust corporate, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and emerging growth, business litigation, public securities, entertainment, and intellectual property practices, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ attorneys assist clients with virtually every legal issue a business or an individual may face. Since its inception in 2002, SA&M has worked alongside innovators and leaders of businesses large and small whose ideas are world changing. SA&M takes a long-term approach to its relationship with clients, partnering with them all along their evolutionary path, from idea to growth to exit, or whatever their future may hold. SA&M’s mission is, and has always been, to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business advisory perspective. Consistent with SA&M’s commitment to supporting the entrepreneur ecosystem, the firm operates an accelerator for early-stage companies called the Preccelerator out of its Santa Monica office.
STLG
STLG is a boutique law firm counseling domestic and international companies, founders, and investors. We offer customized, value-added services in intellectual property, technology-related transactions, and corporate law. Additionally, we serve as local general counsel. Our clients span various industries, including medical devices, technology, consumer products, energy, and pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our team members bring operational experience from previous roles as technical staff or business managers. Leveraging our strategic insights from decades of legal expertise and a practical approach, we provide sound strategies from a lean perspective. We are small, agile, with extensive domestic and international reach, and the flexibility to act swiftly. Operational excellence is paramount in every engagement.