Tom Tobiason,

a partner in the San Francisco office, is a member of the Technology Companies Group, which advises high growth technology companies, venture capital firms and investment banks.

Mr. Tobiason represents public and private high-tech and life science companies in the renewable energy, life science, mobile, Internet, display, semiconductor and other high-tech industries, focusing on formation, financing and general corporate counseling.

Mr. Tobiason has completed hundreds of venture capital financings as well as numerous acquisitions (representing both acquirers and sellers), public offerings (representing both issuers and underwriters) and commercial transactions.

Mr. Tobiason, who spent most of his career based in California's Silicon Valley, also advises a number of entrepreneurs and companies doing business in China, Taiwan, Vietnam and India. He regularly advises on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters, including Sarbanes-Oxley counseling and compliance.

Mr. Tobiason has represented numerous investment banking clients including Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. He has also represented numerous venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Maveron, Sequoia Capital, Steamboat Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and Walden International.

Over the years, Mr. Tobiason has worked with many companies in the Internet, solar, mobile, display, semiconductor and healthcare industries, including:

AcroMetrix (funded by Telegraph Hill Partners)
Shanghai Comtec Solar
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK)
Energo Solar S.A.
Endforce (funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, INVESCO Private Capital, WK Technology Fund and others)
Handmark (funded by Hanna Ventures and others)
IGG (funded by IDGVC, Vertex, Hearst)
Intellisync Corporation (NASDAQ: SYNC)
Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm)
Lambdaflex (acquired by Avanex)
Laserscope (NASDAQ: LSCP)
myShape (funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
OneStop, Inc. (funded by Bessemer Venture Partners)
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL)
Photop (funded by Walden International)
Preview Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: PRVW)
Patholase (funded by Nexus Medical Partners)
RF Nano (funded by OKapi Ventures)
Voyan Technology Inc. (acquired by Tokyo Electron Ltd.)
VXtreme (acquired by Microsoft)

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Tobiason was a director of Venture Law Group.