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Greg L. Beattie
Greg maintains a corporate and technology law practice, emphasizing start-up and private company representation, venture fund representation, mergers, acquisitions and strategic joint ventures, technology licensing, protection and transfers, and securities and commercial law. He represents a broad spectrum of computer device, networking and infrastructure companies, venture capital firms and a variety of 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 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.
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greg@mbvlaw.com
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