Represent growing companies in a broad range of legal matters including company formation and governance, mergers and acquisitions, financing, joint ventures, trademarks, patents, IP licensing and strategy, privacy, and transactional due diligence. Provide M&A advisory to family offices, independent sponsors, and venture-backed companies.

Serve as independent, court-appointed counsel on appeal for indigent defendants in felony cases across California. Panel attorney for California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, and Fresno. My representation has resulted in 14 published decisions in the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Provide strategic advisory on M&A transactions, business structuring, strategic partnerships, financial analysis, and technology integration and optimization to growing companies.

Represent growing companies in M&A and corporate transactions.

Supervised legal operations and litigation for a 20-attorney international intellectual property law firm. Supported legal-tech product development and process design.

Advisor to start-ups, high-growth companies, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics in technology and life sciences in Finland, C.I.S. Managed opportunity analysis, IP acquisition, market intelligence, IT due diligence for private equity and VC investments internationally.Helped clients launch products and companies, raise capital, open international offices, license their technology, hire and coordinate international teams, execute cross-border transactions, and bring their products and services from Europe to US and Asian markets. Advisor on fundraising, M&A strategy, business operations, internationalization, regulatory compliance, joint ventures, intellectual property, privacy and technology transactions.

Acted as corporate counsel for companies and entrepreneurs for companies in a host of industries including fintech, SaaS, scientific instruments, electronics, financial services, health care, and life sciences in areas including VC transactions, corporate formation and governance, provisional patent applications, debt financing, M&A transactions, contracts, regulatory compliance, litigation, and employment issues.

Co-founder and legal counsel for a start-up developer of mobile-phone information access systems and SaaS tracking software for the advertising and media industries. Launched offices in New York, Helsinki, London, and Milan. Developed business plan and raised $6M in venture capital. Established relationships with media companies, advertisers, telco operators in US and Western Europe. Managed acquisition of one competitor and merger with another. The company was first in world to launch offline to mobile marketing technology platform (i.e. TV / print / radio to SMS).

Worked on M&A, IPOs, securities, litigation, and technology licensing projects in the technology sector.