Ken Funahashi is a corporate law partner who helps entrepreneurs, strategic investors and buyers, venture capital funds, and private equity funds engaged in business operations in the US and globally. Ken has handled more than US$10 billion in financings, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and initial public offerings (IPOs), and has lectured in startup and corporate law at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of California, Irvine (UCI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), University of Southern California (USC) and other universities.
Ken works on a wide range of M&A and corporate finance matters, from early-stage companies raising venture capital financing to multi-billion-dollar transactions for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Ken's practice focuses on technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), consumer packaged goods (CPG), consumer retail tech (CRT), cyber security, digital assets, e-commerce, esports, gaming, mediatech, fintech, renewable energy and software as a service (SaaS), as well as life sciences and healthtech (biologics, digital health, diagnostics, genomics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals).
Ken was included in the 2025 and 2026 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for corporate law and has been recognized as a 2024 BTI Client Service All-Star highlighting attorneys "delivering the absolute best levels of client service". Ken was also recognized by Attorney Intel as one of the top 25 biotechnology and life sciences attorneys of 2024 and the top 25 blockchain and digital assets attorneys of 2025.
In addition to practicing in California's technology clusters for close to three decades, Ken has studied and worked abroad and has extensive experience in cross-border M&A, joint venture and strategic investment transactions in Asia (including China, Korea and Japan) and Europe.
