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Leveraging his 25+ years of corporate law expertise and board level counsel, Josh founded Legal Architects in 2004.
Throughout his career, Josh has represented emerging growth companies and venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with particular focus in the areas of healthcare and communications. He has completed initial public offerings, merger and acquisition transactions, and venture capital transactions that rank among the largest and most successful in Silicon Valley history. Together, these transactions involve well over $10 billion dollars. Additionally, he has architected numerous complex spin-offs, spin-ins, technology licensing and corporate partnerships.
Josh has been named one of the leading lawyers in the United States for many years by numerous publications, including Chambers' Best Lawyers in America 2004.
Josh graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 1977 and the UCLA School of Law in 1980 where he was on the Law Review. In June 2001, he was commencement speaker at UCLA's largest undergraduate graduation ceremony. Josh practiced law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP from 1980 to 1995, and developed the Palo Alto office from approximately 10 lawyers to over 100 lawyers. Josh was instrumental in growing Venture Law Group from 14 lawyers when he joined in 1995 to over 110 lawyers at its peak. He also assisted in the successful merger with Heller Ehrman in 2003.
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Selected Recent Career Highlights: |
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—$7 billion acquisition of Cerent by Cisco Systems |
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—Foundry Networks IPO—the largest first day rise in stock price in NASDAQ history |
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—Numerous multibillion dollar acquisitions for Yahoo, Inc. |
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—Recent $100+ million sale of medical device company |
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—1,000+ venture financings |
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—100+ IPOs |
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—100+ M&A transactions |
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