SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Silicon Legal Strategy today announced that associate Steve James has joined the firm in its San Francisco office.
Steve James is an associate at Silicon Legal Strategy. Steve helps startup companies at every stage, including formation, equity and debt financing, M&A, and day-to-day corporate matters. Steve also advises venture capital investors on their investments in startup companies.
Prior to joining SLS, Steve was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in New York City, where he advised startup companies and venture capital investors. Steve also worked in-house at Thrivent, a Fortune 500 insurance company in Minneapolis, where he advised private equity investors.
Steve received his law degree from the University of Iowa and his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University.
“SLS has a well-known reputation among attorneys, founders, and investors for excellent work by good people,” Steve reflected. “It’s an innovative firm with elite talent, and I’m excited to dig in and get to work.”
“Steve’s earnest approach to client service and enthusiasm for the ECVC space will benefit our clients and colleagues alike,” said Andre Gharakhanian, Managing Partner of Silicon Legal. “We are pleased to hire another remarkable individual to our team, continuing Silicon Legal’s ethos of attracting and cultivating high-caliber talent.”
About Silicon Legal Strategy
Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup — like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We face these challenges every day — and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually “get” what entrepreneurs are going through.
