Gilles S. Attia concentrates his practice on securities compliance and corporate governance advice to public companies and the representation of high-growth companies, investors, and financial institutions in financing, technology, and merger and acquisition transactions.

Mr. Attia has advised several hundred growth companies and led many of the significant public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions in the central valley of California of the past 25 years. He has counseled most of the Sacramento region's leading rapid growth companies from startup through later rounds of financing and in liquidity transactions valued at over $6 billion, including Level One Communications, USCS International, CoreLogic, Schilling Robotics, Alamar Biosciences, Sierra Logic, and Meridian Systems.

Mr. Attia previously served as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., where he represented the Commission in the federal courts and counseled the Commission on proposed rulemaking and enforcement actions. During the past 25 years, he has also taught courses in Federal Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance, and Advanced Business Planning as an adjunct professor of law at University of the Pacific.

Mr. Attia has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines.

Admissions

• California

Civic and Charitable

• Co-founder and Chairman, Entrepreneurs Foundation for the Capital Region
• Member, Dean’s Leadership Council, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
• Member, Dean’s Council, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
• Member, Office of Research External Research Advisory Board, UC Davis
• Member, College of Business Advisory Council, California State University Sacramento
• Founding Partner, Strategis Early Ventures
• Founding Director, Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA)
• Member of Executive Committee and Director, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce
• Founder and Member of Board of Directors, CEO Network
• Founding Member, Board of Directors, Sacramento Marketing Council
• Appointee, California Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Regulation
• Co-founder/Former Chairman, Sacramento Valley Forum for Growth Companies
• Founder/Former Chairman, ACCESS Capital, (now Golden Capital Network)