Representative Experience
Mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, securities offerings, entity formation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, corporate governance matters, technology transfers and licensing, and outside general counsel to emerging technology companies
Chairman of firm’s Emerging Business and Technology Group
Representative Clients
Eagle River Holdings in preferred equity investments in S5 Wireless, Inc., Tello Corporation and World Wide Packets, Inc.
Clearwire Corporation in $900 million equity financing and spectrum license and asset acquisitions
Big Fish Games, Inc. in private equity financings and various asset acquisitions in casual game space
GE Capital in over 20 venture capital investments in technology companies and related strategic alliances
Microsoft Corporation in numerous software licensing and strategic partnering agreements
Tenzing Communications, Inc. in $40 million preferred equity and related debt financings and in sale to OnAir N.V.
ICO Global Communications in successful bid for global communications and satellite assets of Globalstar, L.P.
Extend America, Inc. in preferred equity financings totaling $18.5 million and in strategic partnership with Nextel Communications, Inc.
Institute for Systems Biology in formation of ISB Accelerator Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation in $25 million preferred equity financing of digital imaging software company
Orca Bay Partners in $25 million acquisition of 1838 Investment Advisors and other private equity investments
Crothall Services Group in $200 million merger with Compass Group
Publications and Presentations
Officers’ Liability Pre-existed Sarbanes-Oxley, Puget Sound Business Journal, October 4, 2002
Memberships and Activities
Trustee - Plymouth Housing Group
Washington State Bar Association - Corporate Counsel and Business Law Sections
WSA (formerly Washington Software Alliance)
Prior Experience
Systems Engineer, Scitor Corporation, a consulting firm based in Sunnyvale, CA
Education
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY, 1992
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1987
