Eric Deeds is of counsel in DLA Piper's Corporate and Securities group, based in San Francisco. He concentrates on representing startup and emerging growth technology companies and venture capital investors.

His practice encompasses venture capital financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, commercial and strategic transactions, equity compensation matters, intellectual property strategy and transactions, SEC reporting and disclosure, corporate governance and general corporate and business counseling.

Mr. Deeds has represented both private venture-backed companies and public companies in the Internet, software, media/entertainment, clean technology, semiconductor, networking hardware, life sciences and consumer products sectors and also represents venture capital firms in financing transactions and underwriters in public offerings.

Representative Clients

• Alphatec Spine
• Emergence Capital Partners
• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Independent Online Distribution Alliance
• Institutional Venture Partners
• Jobvite
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• NewBridge Pharmaceuticals
• One Kings Lane
• OptoAtmospherics
• Passport Capital
• Quixey
• Salesforce.com
• Stion Corporation
• TubeMogul
• Unity Software
• Wombat Financial Software