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Clients look to Heller Ehrman’s extensive on-the-ground resources in San Diego to support their corporate and business needs. Our practice includes Craig Andrews, Ross Burningham, Alan Jacobs, Mike Kagnoff, Martin Nichols, Kirt Shuldberg, Jeff Thacker and Hayden Trubitt.
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Through Venture Law Group, one of the premier emerging technology practices in the world, Heller Ehrman works closely with early-stage companies and entrepreneurs to connect them with the venture capital community throughout San Diego, the Bay Area, and around the world. As a firm, we are leaders in the areas of venture funding, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, and work with many of the top VCs, including Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, Enterprise Partners and others.
Our local emerging technology team has an extensive record in the San Diego region and has handled scores of groundbreaking deals on behalf of life sciences and technology companies. We regularly partner with clients on issues facing the community and hold board positions on local industry organizations such as UCSD Connect, BIOCOM and the Software Industry Council.
Public and Established Companies
Public and established companies turn to Heller Ehrman for the full range of corporate legal services, including counsel on corporate governance, executive compensation, tax, mergers and acquisitions and IP counseling advice. Our San Diego team has a strong record of success, including handling the $1.3 billion initial public offering of SAIC.
Life sciences and technology companies increasingly thrive on partnering transactions to gain market share and traction. Heller Ehrman has negotiated and completed in recent years some of the largest and most innovative life sciences and technology partnering transactions in the San Diego region, throughout the country and globally. Our experience includes agreements and ventures ranging from joint venture and strategic partner agreements to Internet and multimedia agreements, IT and business-process outsourcing agreements, and material transfer agreements. Led by Rick Kaufman, our San Diego team has significant experience developing global IP protection and technology commercialization strategies for a strong international client base.
Companies turn to Heller Ehrman to solve complicated issues involving reorganizations, debt restructurings and, when necessary, bankruptcy. In San Diego, clients look to Margaret Mann, chair of our global Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group. Ms. Mann is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a commercial litigator and insolvency attorney with particular experience in technology-transaction issues, as well as real estate and low-income tax credit housing.