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Gilles S. Attia  


Partner
Managing Partner, Sacramento Office

gilles.attia@dlapiper.com

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400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400
Sacramento, California 95814-4428
United States
T: +1 916 930 3230   F: +1 916 403 1625

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 public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions during the past 27 years. He has counseled many rapid growth companies from startup through later rounds of financing and in liquidity transactions valued at over $10 billion.

Mr. Attia previously served as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, where he represented the Commission in the federal courts and counseled the Commission on proposed rulemaking and enforcement actions. During the past 27 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 recognized in Legal 500, which comments that clients praise his "standout knowledge of early stage funding and excellent support of early stage companies." He 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

  • Trustee, UC Davis Foundation Board of Trustees
  • Co-founder and Chairman, Entrepreneurs Foundation for the Capital Region
  • Member, Dean's Leadership Council, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
  • Member, Office of Research External Research Advisory Board, UC Davis
  • Member, College of Business Advisory Council, California State University Sacramento


EDUCATION

  • LL.M., Columbia University School of Law 1980
  • J.D., University of the Pacific 1978 cum laude
    Managing Editor, Pacific Law Journal
  • B.S., University of California at Berkeley 1971

EDUCATION

  • LL.M., Columbia University School of Law 1980
  • J.D., University of the Pacific 1978 cum laude
    Managing Editor, Pacific Law Journal
  • B.S., University of California at Berkeley 1971

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