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Mark Medearis is a partner in the Emerging Companies practice group and a member of the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. Mr. Medearis joined the firm in 2008 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.
Mr. Medearis represents emerging growth and public companies, with an emphasis on private financings, public offerings, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. His clients are primarily in the technology industry, including: telecommunications, networking and wireless; digital commerce and digital media; software and software-based services; semiconductors; and cleantech. Mr. Medearis regularly represents venture capital firms in investments in emerging growth companies and investment banks in initial and follow-on offerings.
Mr. Medearis co-founded Venture Law Group and was also a shareholder at Heller Ehrman and a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America in Venture Capital Law and a Northern California Super Lawyer by San Francisco Magazine.
Representative technology company clients and transactions include:
Telecommunications/Networking/Wireless:
- Airespace (funding by Storm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Fidelity Ventures; strategic partnerships with Nortel, Alcatel; acquisition by Cisco)
- AirMagnet (funding by VenGlobal, IP Fund One, Intel; acquisition by Fluke)
- Aspect Communications (funding by Mayfield Fund, Matrix Partners, Menlo Ventures; IPO led by Morgan Stanley)
- Latitude Communications (funding by Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures; IPO led by Credit Suisse First Boston; acquisition by Cisco)
- Stratacom (strategic partnership with Motorola; IPO and follow-on offering led by Montgomery Securities)
- Sylantro Systems (funding by Mayfield Fund, Accel Partners, others; acquisition by Broadsoft)
- Sync Research (funding by Menlo Ventures, Canaan Partners; IPO led by Robertson Stephens; acquisition by Osicom)
Digital Commerce/Digital Media/Internet Services:
- AdInfuse (funding by Storm Ventures, Comventures, Softbank; acquisition by Velti)
- Atom Entertainment (funding by Macromedia, Sequoia Capital; acquisition by Viacom)
- HealthCentral.com (funding by InterWest Partners, Delphi Ventures, Alta Partners, Tenet Healthcare, MedVentures; IPO led by Lehman Brothers)
- OnePage (funding by Vulcan Ventures, Allen & Co.; acquisition by Sybase)
- Phone.com (funding by Greylock Partners, Matrix Partners, Sofinnova Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners; IPO and follow-on offering led by Credit Suisse First Boston)
- Preview Travel (funding by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, AOL; IPO and follow-on offering led by Hambrecht & Quist; acquisition by Travelocity)
- Wine.com (funding by TH Lee, New Millenium Partners, GE Capital, Inroads Capital; acquisition by WineShopper)
Semiconductors/Semiconductor Equipment:
- AMCC (IPO and follow-on offering led by Robertson Stephens)
- Foveon (funding by New Enterprise Associates, National Semiconductor, CMEA; acquisition by Sigma Corporation)
- Linear Technology (funding by Mayfield Fund, Hambrecht & Quist; IPO led by Morgan Stanley)
- Linkup Systems (acquisition by NeoMagic)
- Peak International (acquisition by a subsidiary of Daewon Semiconductor Packaging Industrial Co.)
Software/Software-based Services:
- Active Software (funding by Enterprise Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lehman Brothers; IPO led by Goldman Sachs; acquisition by WebMethods)
- Cendura Corporation (funding by New Enterprise Associates, Crosslink Capital, NeoCarta Ventures; acquisition by CA)
- Gupta Corporation (IPO led by Morgan Stanley)
- Instill Corporation (funding by Mayfield Fund, J.P. Morgan, Charles River Ventures, Altos Ventures; acquisition by iTrade Network)
- Persistence Software (funding by Morgan Stanley Ventures; IPO led by Robertson Stephens; acquisition by Progress Software)
- Trigo Technologies (funding by Bessemer Venture Partners, JAFCO, Mayfield Fund, Pequot; acquisition by IBM)
Mr. Medearis received a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Mr. Medearis received an M.S. in Structural Engineering from Stanford, where he was a John Blume Fellow. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering with Special Honors from the University of Colorado.
Mr. Medearis is admitted to practice in California and Colorado.
Education- Stanford Law School
JD, 1979 - Stanford University
MS Structural Engineering, 1976, John Blume Fellow - University of Colorado at Boulder
BS Civil Engineering, 1975, Special Honors
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