Mr. Goldenberg specializes in corporate and business matters for companies ranging in size from startup companies to large publicly traded corporations in the United States and overseas. Representative areas of expertise include company formations, licensing and commercial transactions, debt and equity financings, stock option and executive compensation matters, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, management buyouts, strategic partnerships, intellectual property and internet issues, leasing transactions, corporate governance, and the other areas affecting the formation, growth, and operation of business clients.

Prior to founding Lion Tech Law, Mr. Goldenberg served as general counsel for Mediabolic, Inc., the leading embedded entertainment software company in Silicon Valley, for nearly three years. He oversaw all legal aspects for the company, including sales and business development transactions (including negotiation of over 75 separate licensing transactions with companies such as Intel, Motorola, Sony, Cisco/Linksys, Fujitsu, Phillips, HP, Broadcom and Marvell), financing issues (including two rounds of venture capital financing), stock option matters, employee matters, and the eventual sale of the company to Macrovision, Inc.

Prior to Mediabolic, Mr. Goldenberg practiced law at the San Francisco headquarters of Morrison & Foerster, one of the country’s premier law firms, for nearly seven years. At MoFo, he completed a variety of transactions, including venture capital financings, IPOs, SEC compliance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, executive compensation and other general corporate matters. He completed at least thirty venture capital financings of all types during his tenure (preferred stock, common stock, convertible debt, secured loan, up-round, down-round, bridge, warrants, and other types of financing), and multiple mergers at all size levels, from $6M to $1.9B, as well as licensing, strategic partner, and IPO transactions. He also advised publicly traded companies in mergers and acquisitions, financing, corporate governance, stock option, executive compensation, and stock exchange listing (and delisting) matters.

Mr. Goldenberg graduated from Stanford Law School in 1996, where he was Chair (Managing Editor) of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance. Prior to that, he received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University with honors (where he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa). Mr. Goldenberg is a member of the Bar in California.

Ms. Chávez has spent her entire professional career negotiating and closing large technology transactions in the semiconductor, networking, software and electronic commerce areas. For over ten years, she has represented both early stage and established companies in licensing, joint ventures, technology transfers, outsourcing, system acquisitions and other commercial and strategic transactions in the United States and abroad. Some of the companies she has represented include: Ventro Corporation (one of the first online exchanges), Snaptrack Inc. (acquired by Qualcomm), Yahoo! Inc., Oracle Corporation, AvantGo, Active Software and Netro Communications.

After completing an AB cum laude in Philosophy at Harvard and a JD and MS in Computer Science at Stanford, Ms. Chávez commenced her legal career at Venture Law Group. She subsequently co-founded Mediabolic, the leading provider of embedded software for next generation consumer electronics products. Ms. Chávez ran all sales, business development and legal initiatives at Mediabolic prior to leaving to co-found Lion Tech Law.

Ms. Innis focuses her practice on technology and commercial transactions and general corporate matters. She has extensive experience negotiating licensing agreements, professional services agreements, IT agreements, outsourcing agreements and other commercial contracts. Ms. Innis also serves as outside general counsel to internet and technology companies, advising them in any number of issues that arise in the day-to-day of their business, such as entity formation, intellectual property protection, terms of service, open source, issues with users, customers or vendors, and general commercial contracts.

Upon completing her JD, magna cum laude, from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Ms. Innis clerked for the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy of the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and later joined Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, where she represented emerging companies. After practicing in-house with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. as Vice President, Senior Corporate Counsel of its technology and contracts group, Ms. Innis co-founded the firm of Silicon Counsel LLP. She left Silicon Counsel to co-found Lion Tech Law.

Ms. Gavin’s practice focuses primarily on technology transactions and intellectual property. She has worked with numerous software, digital media, semiconductor and open source technology companies. Ms. Gavin’s experience includes structuring and negotiating a wide variety of transactions involving content development, distribution, services, manufacturing, licensing of intellectual property assets, and software and hardware development.

After receiving her JD, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, Ms. Gavin joined the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and later practiced law with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC before joining Lion Tech Law.