Eric Deeds is an associate 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

• APT Pharmaceuticals
• Crushpad
• Emergence Capital Partners
• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Independent Online Distribution Alliance
• Intelligent Energy Ltd.
• Jobvite
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• plaYce
• salesforce.com
• Stion Corporation
• TubeMogul
• Wombat Financial Software (acquired by NYX)
• VistaGen Therapeutics