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Jennifer Fonner DiNucci is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice group. She is resident in the Palo Alto office and has been with the Firm since 1997.
Her practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, representing public and private companies from various industries as well as investment banks and venture capital firms. In addition to M&A, Ms. DiNucci's practice includes securities and general corporate law matters. Ms. DiNucci was recognized by The Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 leading attorneys in California for 2006.
Ms. DiNucci frequently lectures on M&A related topics. Her speaking engagements include:
- Merging VC-backed Companies: What Does It Take, Dow Jones
- Going Private: Doing It Right, Players Involved in Going Private Transactions, Practising Law Institute
- Board Considerations in M&A Transactions, Stanford Directors' Forum (Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School)
- M&A Panel, Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum
- Public Company Boards: The World Has Changed; Are You Prepared?, GCA Savvian/Cooley Godward Kronish presentation
- M&A Trends, Piper Jaffray/Cooley Godward CFO Roundtable M&A as an Exit Strategy , MIT Club of Northern California, Semiconductor Entrepreneurship Series
- How To Negotiate an Acquisition Deal Term Sheet, MIT Club of Northern California, Semiconductor Entrepreneurship Series
- Distressed Company M&A and M&A and Antitrust, In-House Counsel MCLE Workshops, Cooley Godward Kronish
Ms. DiNucci has also authored, co-authored and consulted on several publications and articles including:
- "Managing the Benefits and Risks of Transactions Involving Insolvent Companies." Inside the Minds: M&A Strategies for Bankruptcy and Distressed Companies. Aspatore Books (2009)
- "Negotiating Antitrust Provisions in Acquisition Agreements." The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California
- "Expert Advice – The MAC Clause: An Emperor With No Clothes." California Lawyer, October 2008
- "Structuring Transactions Involving Intellectual Property." Intellectual Property in Business Transactions
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions, J. Rosenbaum, J. Pearl. Wiley Finance (2009)
Ms. DiNucci graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business-Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991, graduating magna cum laude, with college honors distinction. She was also elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
Ms. DiNucci is a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California.
Education- Georgetown University Law Center
JD, 1995 - University of California, Los Angeles
BA Business and Economics, 1991, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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