Related Practices
Mergers & Acquisitions
International Corporate Transactions
General Corporate Transactions
Joint Ventures
Startups
Financing and Secured Lending
Investment Funds and Search Funds
Securities Laws Compliance
Edward Grenville, the managing partner of the firm, is admitted to practice in California and has over 25 years’ experience representing companies in M&A transactions, financing transactions, emerging company transactions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, and other business transactions. He also provides day-to-day advice to companies on corporate governance, contracts, partnerships, vendor relationships, technology transactions, employments matters, and intellectual property matters. Edward is experienced in representing startups in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, representing these companies from incorporation of the business, through friends and family capital raises, seed rounds, Series A and later rounds, and to eventual exit in an M&A transaction. Edward’s practice also includes representing lenders and borrowers in a range of secured lending transactions, including revolving and terms loans. Edward also represents sponsors and investors in hedge fund, private equity fund, and search fund formations, including drafting the principal fund documents, the private placement memorandum, the fund subscription documents, securities laws compliance, and regulatory compliance. Edward has broad experience in M&A, representing private equity firms and strategic buyers in acquisitions, sellers, and management teams. Edward also represents clients in cross-border M&A transactions.
Edward combines big law firm experience with the personal approach of a boutique business law firm. He has been a partner in leading national and international law firms, and was formerly the head of the corporate practice for the West Coast of a global law firm. He was also previously the General Counsel of a subsidiary of GE Capital, which financed transportation assets, and engaged in global transactions. He has worked across many industries, including technology, software, fintech, adtech, manufacturing, healthcare, consumer, and transportation sectors.
Representative work includes:
Represented private equity firm in a series of acquisitions of manufacturing companies
Represented manufacturing company in stock sale to private equity firm
Represented US private equity firm in acquisition of services company
Represented a software technology company (seller) in a stock sale transaction
Represented a technology company (acquirer) in an acquisition transaction
Represented a public strategic acquirer of a private software technology company
Represented a US private company in an asset sale transaction
Represented a US services company in a stock acquisition transaction
Represented a private equity firm in a sale of a portfolio of loans and equipment leases
Represented the management team in a $100 million private equity acquisition transaction
Represented a foreign private company in a US stock acquisition transaction
Represented numerous Silicon Valley startups in formation, financing, Series A, employment, and intellectual property matters
Represented fintech company in restructuring and Series A transaction
Represented US and UK company in joint venture for a fintech product
Represented sponsors in the formation of a long-short hedge fund
Represented sponsors in the formation of real estate private equity funds
Represented US bank in numerous revolver and term loan credit transactions
Represented UK bank in US asset-based transactions
Professional Memberships and Activities
State Bar of California – Business Law Section
American Bar Association – Business Law Section
Director and Chairman of the Board (2021) of the British American Business Council (BABC) – San Francisco
Member of the Association for Corporate Growth – San Francisco
Director of Tech Bay Area Advocates (TBAA) – San Francisco
Bar Admissions
Education
B.A., M.A., Modern History, University of Oxford, England
JD, University of San Francisco - Law Review - Managing Editor, Maritime Law Journal
