EMERGING COMPANIES SUMMIT - Nvidia

Jon Gavenman
Partner – Cooley Godward Kronish
Jon Gavenman is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish
Business department and a member of the Emerging Companies
and Securities Regulation practice groups. He joined the Firm in
2008 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.
Mr. Gavenman represents a wide range of companies from
start-ups to public companies in the software, semiconductor,
telecommunications and internet-related industries. His practice
focuses on securities, and merger and acquisition transactions,
as well as advising companies on general corporate, securities
matters and implications of proposed business transactions.
Mr. Gavenman has represented both issuers and underwriters
in numerous public offerings across these industries, and has
substantial experience in both buyer and seller-side merger and
acquisition transactions and in both issuer and investor-side
venture capital and other private financing transactions.
Mr. Gavenman has worked on complex international and domestic
joint venture transactions. His clients have included Access360,
Aspect Communications, Bowman Capital LP, Brio Software,
Cirrus Logic, CrossWorlds Software, Fibex Systems, Goldman,
Sachs & Co., Grouper Networks, Lam Research Corporation,
Matrix Partners, META Group, Meta Software, OSA Technologies,
Sequoia Capital, Spinner Networks, Unison Software, and
WebTV Networks.
From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Gavenman was a shareholder at Heller
Ehrman in its Venture Law Group. Prior to Heller Ehrman, Mr.
Gavenman was a director of Venture Law Group. He began his
legal career at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Mr. Gavenman received a J.D. from the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law in 1991. He received a B.A. in
Mathematical Economics from Pomona College in 1988.
Mr. Gavenman is a member of the State Bar of California
and Connecticut.
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