Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP
Headquarters Redwood City, California
No. of offices 9
No. of attorneys 220[1]
Major practice areas corporate law, private equity law, venture capital law, employee compensation
Date founded 1995
Company type Limited liability partnership
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Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP (Gunderson Dettmer) is an international law firm headquartered in Silicon Valley in California. The firm focuses exclusively on business law and commercial matters for venture-backed and public technology and life science companies and venture capital investors, while performing no litigation work.[2] In addition to its headquarters in Redwood City, California, Gunderson Dettmer maintains offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Beijing, and Singapore.[2]

History

Gunderson Dettmer was founded in 1995 when a group of partners, led by Bob Gunderson and Scott Dettmer, left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's tech startup focused division to create a new firm.[3] Gunderson had also earlier worked for Cooley LLP, in its Silicon Valley-focused practice area.[4] The firm grew rapidly along with the Dot Com boom of the late 1990s, and by 1999, Gunderson Dettmer became notable for being the first law firm in the country to raise first-year associate salaries to $125,000.[5] The firm was able to weather the collapse of the Dot-com bubble and Early 2000s recession to remain a significant player in the tech start-up field, even as Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison went bankrupt due to its practice of accepting equity as payment from start-ups, many of which wound up going bankrupt in the crash.[6]

By the early 2010s, Gunderson Dettmer had become the top global law firm in venture funding by number of deals. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gunderson Dettmer had surpassed Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as the most active law firm in venture capital.[7] In 2017, Pitchbook ranked Gunderson the most active venture capital law firm in the world,[8] while Chambers and Partners observed that the firm, "displays dominance throughout the North American and Chinese venture capital fund formation markets."[9]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. News & World Report. http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/profile/gunderson-dettmer-stough-villeneuve-franklin-hachigian-llp/overview/16919
  2. 1 2 https://www.gunder.com/about/firm
  3. ↑ "Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP". Vault.Com. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Marcus, David (2010-10-29). "Silicon law". The Deal. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Mystal, Elie. "Nationwide Layoff Watch: Gunderson Dettmer Says 'Hello and Goodbye'". Above the Law. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Gross, Daniel (2003-01-31). "The Dot-Firm's Dot-Bomb: How a leading West Coast law firm killed itself". Slate. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Austin, Scott. "Gunderson Dettmer Tops Venture Capital's Most Active Law Firms". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "2017 Global Venture Capital League Tables" (PDF). Pitchbook.com. February 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian". Chambers and Partners. 2017.


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