Craig Opperman Email & Phone Number

Portola Valley, Ca, Us

Fremont, Ca, Us

Member of the Global Leadership Team of $100+BN market cap Lam Research, one of the world's leading semiconductor equipment companies. Manage all Intellectual Property matters: strategy, risk, design, protection, transactions & evaluation for all aspects of IP, including trade secrets, data rights, copyrights/open source, trademarks, and a 12,500+ patent asset ranked as one of the top global semiconductor patent portfolios. Manage all data privacy matters.

Took a year off to follow a dream: Restored the soul to a badly neglected old stone Mas (farmhouse) and rehabilitated a small Grenache/Syrah vineyard between Montpellier and Beziers in the Languedoc. Felt the pull of history from centuries-old stone walls. Experienced the joy and challenge of restoration. Learned less of the wine making process and French than I had hoped!

Cape Town, Za

Hired by long-term client Naspers Limited, a $94BN market cap Internet, media and technology investment company operating in 130 countries. https://www.naspers.com/about The Naspers General Counsel is one of five senior corporate-level executives. Experience included:• Briefing the Board on all major legal risk areas and legal considerations in a range of matters.• Running the global Ethics, Legal Compliance and Legal Risk programs, reporting to the Board’s Risk Committee.• Handling all regulatory matters across multiple jurisdictions: UK, US and South African “SEC” regulations, FCPA, UK Bribery Act, OFAC and its European counterparts, ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations, government licensing, etc.• Reputation management.• Board advice on sensitive high-risk issues including US and European sanctions and data privacy.• Bond offerings.• Tax challenges and investigations.• All significant investment, JV, M&A and divestiture transactions. • Handling complex competition law/anti-trust issues in a multi-country environment.• All major licensing and other technology transactions.• Litigation strategy & management for the approximately 200 most important lawsuits globally. • All Intellectual Property matters.• Managing the 22-country, 100-person legal team.

London, England, Gb

Technology lawyer and partner in one of the world's largest law firms.Highlights included representing Imagination Technologies in its acquisition of MIPS and Nimbula in its acquisition by Oracle. Also, representing Irdeto in its litigation against Blue Spike and Ruckus Wireless against ReefEdge.

Worldwide, Oo

Founding partner of Reed Smith's Silicon Valley Office. Headed the Silicon Valley IP practice. Left to join DLA Piper together with most of the office's founding team. Litigation work included representing SolutionInc in its litigation against NTT Docomo/Nomadix, Pragmatus in its litigations against Yahoo!, Facebook, et al and Skype in its cookie privacy class action lawsuits. Major transactions included being part of the teams representing Cybersource in its acquisition by VISA, Friendster in its patent portfolio sale to Facebook, and leading the team in the $2.38 billion valuation of Kodak's intellectual property.

Early career in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa

Sep, Business

Bachelor Of Laws, Law

Officer Qualification, Military And Strategic Leadership

B.Sc Engineering