Sale Kwon

Sale works with emerging companies in all stages and industries, advising on company formations, venture financings, M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic and corporate governance matters. Sale focuses on building long-term relationships, typically partnering with startups from the very beginning and providing legal and strategic advice along their shared journey toward success. Sale also advises venture capital funds and global corporations on venture investments and complex strategic transactions. In the earlier part of his career, he advised companies and underwriters on initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and other capital markets transactions and assisted public companies with their US Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance work.

The Legal 500 US recognized Sale as a Next Generation Partner in Venture Capital and Emerging Companies from 2021 through 2025. He frequently speaks on various topics related to startups and venture capital and serves as a member of the investment committee for Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs United.

Sale is fluent in Korean and actively involved in various South Korean organizations in the startup and venture ecosystem.

Sale’s current and former representations include:

• ACVC Partners Alchemy Insights
• AIM Intelligent Machines Alsop Louie Partners American Lending Center ANAFLASH
• Andreessen Horowitz Arch Veterinary Services Asia2G Capital Auditoria.ai
• Banyan Infrastructure
• Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeons (Tech Beauty) CapitalG
• Centaurus Therapeutics Cogniac Controlrooms.ai Crowdbotics
• CTK USA Holdings
• DFJ Growth Doosan Corporation
• Dragon Global Partners EarlyBird
• EOFlow EverCharge
• Genvax Technologies GS Futures
• Hanwha Asset Management Higgsfield
• Higher Life Ventures HOYA Corporation Hyundai Mobis
• IPV Global Capital Jetson
• KB Investment Kodra Technologies
• Korea Investment Corporation Korea Investment Partners LevitasBio
• LFX Ventures
• LG Technology Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Maverick Ventures Millennium New Horizons MIMCHIK
• Mitsubishi Corporation Naver Corporation NCSoft
• Neosapience (Typecast) Noom
• NOVA Prime Fund NVIDIA Corporation Pathwater
• Premier Partners Proxima Enterprises PWVentures Ramen Networks RAPT Therapeutics RegCell
• RLWRLD
• Samsung Venture Investment Corporation Sandlot Partners
• Shinhan Investment Soulbrain
• StartX Svexa
• Thai Oil/TOP Ventures Vanilla Technologies Wheeler Bio
• Woori Venture Partners Yum! Brands
• ZENIX
• Zoom Video Communications

Sale served as a captain in the Republic of Korea Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps and represented South Korea in various defense procurement deals.

While in law school, he completed an externship with Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.