Brad Rock

Brad Rock

Partner
About

Brad Rock focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture and angel investing, public offerings, and public company reporting and governance. 

Brad serves as counsel to corporations in a number of industries, including clean tech, software and information technology companies, and retail. He is also counsel to a number of family offices and venture and angel funds.

Brad regularly represents privately held and publicly traded buyers and sellers in corporate and asset acquisitions, early and later-stage technology companies in private placement equity financing transactions, and publicly traded companies in registered public offerings and PIPE transactions. He regularly advises publicly traded companies on SEC reporting, listing compliance and corporate governance matters. Brad also assists founders and officers of public companies in their compliance with securities laws and sales of stock. 

Brad is a Co-chair of DLA Piper’s Opinion Committee.

Bar admissionsCalifornia

EXPERIENCE

Recent Matters
  • Representation of S&P 500 retail company in SEC reporting and corporate governance matters
  • Representation of buyer in acquisition of operations and real property on the Island of Lanai
  • Representation of small-cap publicly traded pv solar company in equity financings and merger transaction
  • Representation of privately held target company in acquisition by Oracle Corporation
  • Representation of buyer in acquisition of small Hawaiian airline
  • Representation of publicly traded company in a complex cross border acquisition
  • Representation of publicly traded companies in acquisitions of domestic and foreign technology companies
  • General outside counsel for companies focusing on enterprise and SaaS software solutions, social media, and renewable energy
  • Representation of C-level officers and founders in establishing 10b5-1 trading plans
Education
  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 1985

    Order of the Coif

  • A.B., Economics, Princeton University 1980
    cum laude

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