Jason Crain Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

As a Partner at VLP, I focus on representing emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs, and investors in the areas of corporate, commercial contracts, employment and equity compensation, capital raising, and M&A. Jason represents companies from formation to exit. This includes the representation of private companies in hundreds of financing transactions, including early-stage convertible debt financings, SAFEs and bridge loans as well as angel and venture capital led preferred stock financing rounds. I also represents companies in M&A transactions, including mergers and asset sales. In addition to company representation, I have represented angel and venture capital investors in financing matters.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide outside general counsel services to start-ups and investors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide general counsel services to venture capital funded, technology-based start-up companies and investors.

San Francisco Bay Area

At Dharma, we're devoted to helping people use data to transform their work - no matter their level of expertise. Our software makes it easy for anyone to quickly gather, understand, and act on the field-level information to drive critical business and organizational decisions. Dharma's tools are user-friendly, feature-rich, and flexible enough to work in any sector - whether that means tracking a program's performance, taking attendance in a classroom, capturing patient or client information, or performing any research.

San Francisco Bay Area

I provide strategic counsel on corporate issues, equity financings, bridge financings, commercial & debt transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

San Francisco, Ca

As Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel, I provided strategic and operational guidance to the company's executives and Board of Directors and was responsible for all financial and legal matters at the company. Broad expertise includes: commercial and strategic transactions, labor law, corporate and securities laws, partnerships, intellectual property, advertising and media law and Board and stockholder matters. Say Media is a technology company at the crossroads between professional editorial publishing and modern digital distribution and monetization. Through its award-winning publishing platform, Tempest, Say Media is reinventing the digital magazine by partnering with leading digital magazines to give them a best-in-class publishing platform and professional services, allowing them to focus on their content, their readers, and their business instead of their technology. With over a decade in the digital advertising market, Say Media continues to invent beautiful new experiences like Adaptive Ads, which seamlessly incorporate quality content and brand messaging on any device.

Menlo Park, Ca

As a managing associate in the Emerging Companies group, I advised venture capital-backed private companies, public companies, venture capital firms and investment banks in a wide range of corporate matters, including equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, employee compensation, corporate governance, capitalization administration, supervise and train junior attorneys and conduct seminars on general corporate matters.

Served as lead prosecutor or defense counsel in over thirty criminal proceedings, supervised criminal and general legal departments of over seventy personnel in three branch offices, responsible for providing defense and legal assistance services to all naval personnel stationed in Mid-Atlantic region, supervised a command legal department of three personnel responsible for providing command legal advice to twenty-five submarines stationed in Groton, Connecticut.

Represented emerging, high-tech companies and venture capital and angel investors. Focus included corporate and securities laws, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, public company representation and technology licensing.

Wilmington, Delaware

Drafted opinions for judicial rulings in cases involving patent infringement, ERISA and securities law violations and Habeas Corpus petitions

Nuclear Engineering Trained Officer, supervised hundreds of military personnel, responsible for all electrical, sonar and communications equipment and all radiation controls aboard the submarine

J.D.

Masters, Operations Research

Bachelors, Marine Transportation And Marine Engineering