Greg Beattie’s practice focuses on corporate and technology law, emphasizing private company representation, mergers, acquisitions and strategic joint ventures, raising capital, technology and trademark licensing, protection and transfers, investor representation, and securities and commercial law. He represents a broad spectrum of hardware, software and internet based companies, food and beverage companies including several wineries, cleantech/greentech companies, investment firms and a variety of other distribution, retail, service and manufacturing concerns.
Greg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1980, (J.D., cum laude). He received his B.A., with distinction and departmental honors, from Stanford University in 1976.
Greg’s past law firm experience includes Reed Smith, where he served as firmwide Chair of the Technology and Venture Group (2003-2005), Crosby Heafey Roach & May (combined with Reed Smith in 2003), Bay Venture Counsel, LLP (combined with Crosby in 2002) and Cooley Godward. He was also law clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk (1980), and General Counsel and Secretary of UB Networks, Inc., a pioneering data networking company (1986-1989).
Greg has lectured widely on early stage and privately held companies, venture financing, director and officer liability, and angel investing. He has served on the Board of the East Bay IT Group (EBIG) and the East Bay Venture Forum, the advisory board of Technology Ventures Corporation, and is the founder and a regular lecturer for the Keiretsu Forum Academy. Greg is also a founder of the Bay Area Food and Beverage Investor Fair.
Greg’s practice has been recognized by his peers and by Law & Politics magazine as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” in 2011. The annual honor by Super Lawyers selects what it determines are the top five percent of California lawyers based upon peer review and the publication’s independent research.
Greg is an accomplished songwriter and performer. His songs have won several awards and have been published and performed in television and movies. He and his wife Victoria perform in the band Calaveras, which receives airplay on independent radio stations around the country.
