What We Do

We are Silicon Valley business and corporate attorneys with a specialty in early-stage tech startup companies. Our skilled, practical focus suits small business while our expert depth gives high tech start-ups what they need to start right and to remain free of early VC lock-ups.

Our business law practice focuses on critical life-cycle events: formation, hiring, incentives, funding, acquiring and positioning to get acquired.

Our core areas are key items not tied to life-cycle: corporate, commercial, executives, disputes, and tax.

Our high tech practice is central to our work. We help with trade secret, trademark, copyright, and other IP protection, licensing, development, distribution, and strategic partnering.

We serve start-ups in a broad range of key technologies in which we have substantial experience and expertise.

We handle commercial litigation across the range of issues that affect startup business clients and small business clients: business, corporate, contract, intellectual property, trade secret, employment, partnership, business dissolution, and other business disputes and lawsuits.

Each of the categories above is explained in depth in easy-to-find entries on our home page.

Every California business, corporate, employment, intellectual property (IP), and commercial litigation lawyer in our law firm has at least 15 years' experience as a practicing attorney in Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area.

Our attorneys represent clients in commercial deals and in commercial litigation matters throughout the state of California, including San Jose, Silicon Valley, the South Bay Area, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Saratoga, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Santa Clara County.