Coda Law Group helps technology companies close commercial transactions. We represent enterprise software, SaaS, Internet, mobile, entertainment, and life sciences companies in their technology transaction matters. Current Coda clients include: SFDC, Adobe, Blue Jeans Network, Asana, Ancestry, Intercom, RingCentral, Aimmune, OneLogin, Acoustic, Aria, Branch Metrics, Prezi, Qualys, Gremlin, Sigma Compting, Zipline Retail, People.ai, Arctic Wolf, Reelgood, Covariant.io, Determined.io, Elastic Projects, Globality, Instrumental, and FiveStars

Principal/Partner at Ascenda Law Group, a law firm focused on commercial transactions and intellectual property/strategic partnerships.

• Management & Leadership: Member of company’s senior leadership team. Provide all legal support and counsel for sales, marketing and R&D departments. Manage in-house legal team responsible for commercial transactions, real estate and intellectual property. Manage outside counsel in a wide variety of subject matters. • Corporate Securities & Governance: Assist General Counsel with public filings and other SEC regulatory matters. Institute ethics training and update various corporate policies. Provide support for board meetings.• Commercial Transactions: Manage all M&A transactions (including the $270M acquisition of Packeteer (Nasdaq: PKTR) and the integration of 25 international subsidiaries). Manage the contracts team and negotiated and finalized all significant contracts with partners and customers (including multi-million dollar deals with Bank of America, IBM, VMware, Adobe and Microsoft). Successfully audit all company contracts and implement comprehensive contract management system.• Intellectual Property: Co-chair of the patent committee and responsible for patent portfolio and all intellectual property protection. Managed and successfully resolved all patent litigation.• Miscellaneous Responsibilities: Provide all legal support and guidance for sales, marketing and R&D departments. Responsible for all matters relating to data privacy (including completion of the certification for Safe Harbor), responsible for all legal aspects relating to compliance of export and environmental regulations. Successfully resolved all patent litigation and disputes with the NY Attorney General, the Department of Justice and the CA Attorney General.

• Management & Leadership: Member of company’s executive council. Built the legal team from the ground up in order to support the growth from a $50M to a $300M (and 200 employees to 1000). Managed all outside counsel. Involved in all strategic business decisions of the company. Efficient maintenance of legal department budget. • Corporate Securities & Governance: Drafted and/or reviewed 10Ks, 10Qs, proxy statements and all SEC filings. Advised on selective disclosure, materiality determinations, guidance to analysts, insider trading, press releases, analyst and other securities issues. Contributed to Board/Committee meetings as corporate secretary. Collaborated with Chairman and management to establish agendas and prepare materials for meetings. Responsible for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and related SEC and NASDAQ legal requirements. Developed and implemented corporate policies worldwide, including insider trading, codes of conduct, corporate governance guidelines, communications policy, whistle-blower policies; created the Nominating & Corporate Governance committee; performed all duties customary to the office of corporate secretary. • Commercial Transactions: Managed all aspects of M&A transactions (including the $30M acquisition of the NetCache product line from Network Appliance, Inc.) and subsequent integration. Negotiated and finalized a wide range of significant strategic partnerships with customers and partners. Drafted all corporate templates and associated legal policies. • International: Responsible for corporate maintenance for over 25 corporate subsidiaries/branch offices/representative offices. • Intellectual Property: Created patent committee and responsible for growth of the patent portfolio and all IP protection. Managed and successfully resolved all patent litigation. • Miscellaneous: Successfully managed three SEC investigations a class action securities lawsuit and a derivative lawsuit.

• Created complex legal structure by incorporating six for-profit subsidiaries under a limited liability holding company with a single member, non-profit parent. Chief legal counsel for all entities - overseeing all legal issues, including software licensing, employee matters, corporate governance, intellectual property protection and partnership agreements. Assisted with strategy, analysis and reviewing investments for the parent entity. Performed all duties customary to the office of Secretary for parent entity.

• Chief legal counsel and core member of executive counsel for a software company selling a strategic sourcing application. Negotiated and finalized venture capital round of $40M with Mobius Venture Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Oversaw all legal issues, employee matters, litigation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection and negotiated/finalized significant software licensing and corporate partnering transactions with over 30 Fortune 1000 companies. Lead company through three acquisitions, including the acquisition of a public company going through bankruptcy. Oversaw all employee issues including the successful management of a trade secret infringement case. Performed all duties customary to the office of Secretary.

• Represented emerging growth companies in venture capital financings, corporate partnering, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and intellectual property matters. Lead negotiator for strategic alliance deals with numerous Fortune 1000 companies (including Sony, Merrill Lynch, Intel). Frequent speaker at conferences on intellectual property, business negotiating and internet related agreements. Wrote sections of Corporate Partnering for Emerging Growth Companies, a handbook used extensively in the internet and computer law arena. Member of hiring committee (2 years) and co-chair of Summer Associate Program (1 year). Hired in-house by client Perfect Commerce, Inc.