Valerie C. Mann*

Valerie is the Chair of the firm’s Technology Group and the Social Impact and Sustainable Business Group. Practicing corporate commercial law and corporate governance, Val is an advisor to public and private companies, private equity firms, and institutional investors. She regularly works with clients on transactional matters and strategic advisory work across the technology, natural resource, real property development, and manufacturing sectors.

With a foundation in private equity and venture fund formations, Val has been lead counsel on a number of large mid-market transactions, providing clients with advice on complex mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance deals as well as advising on corporate governance matters.

Val has advised on investments by venture capital investors in early-stage technology companies, supported private placement financings for non-reporting technology companies, and advised on numerous licensing agreements on behalf of technology companies. She regularly provides advice on corporate and technology law, including clinical trial agreements and material transfer agreements for a publicly traded biotechnology company, as well as advising on business formation, structuring, and early-stage financings for several technology companies involved in wireless applications, software development and new media.

Having published extensively on M&A, venture capital, financing in the technology sector, and leadership, Val is dedicated to sharing her legal knowledge and practical approach to the next generation of legal minds. She regularly teaches and speaks at conferences and law schools and has served on, and chaired, numerous boards and special committees in the non-profit sector.