Mr. White represents emerging growth companies and investment
funds on all matters relating to the formation, financing,
growth and liquidity of technology-based enterprises. He represents
and advises companies on a wide variety of transactional matters,
including business and legal issues as they pertain to complex
strategic and venture financings, acquisitions, and licensing
and distribution arrangements. Mr. White’s practice principally
covers corporate, technology, financing and corporate partnering
matters for a wide variety of private and public company clients
in the ecommerce, internet infrastructure, internet services,
enterprise networking, telecommunications, mobile computing,
and software and hardware peripherals industries. He regularly
advises companies on strategic positioning, business model
and revenue generation issues, the preparation of investment
materials and presentations, and the structure of complex
corporate reorganizations, consolidations and commercial partnerships.
Mr. White also represents investment funds on formation issues
and regularly represents investors in making portfolio investments.
Mr. White has represented recognized companies such as HotMail,
ClassmatesOnline, Nuvomedia, Native Minds, 3ware, SurfMonkey.com,
garageband.com, Betasphere, the EDA Consortium and AirFlash
and venture capital funds such as New Enterprise Associates,
Nexit Ventures and Selby Ventures.
Mr. White has written several papers on matters affecting
emerging growth companies and has spoken on these topics in
seminars organized by the Software Development Forum, the
Northern California Association of Harvard Business School,
the International Angels Institute, the Asian Business Association,
the EDA Consortium and other groups. Mr. White has also spoken
on these topics in Singapore, the People's Republic of China
and Malaysia. He was the organizer of the "Soup to Nuts"
seminar series, which in 2000 was sponsored by Silicon Valley
Bank, New Enterprise Associates, NASDAQ, Microsoft and Oracle.
He currently spearheads the organization of Silicon Forest
Forum in the Pacific Northwest and the Executive Leadership
Series in Silicon Valley.
Prior to co-founding White & Lee in 1996, Mr. White formed
two other law firms: White & Altman, and the firm of Carr,
DeFilippo, White & Ferrell. Mr. White started his legal
career as an attorney in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley
Godward and Fenwick & West. Prior to his legal career,
Mr. White worked as the Managing Director of the International
Trade division of the Harper Group, a Fortune 500 company
and was the founder of Campamericana, an international travel
operator based in Brussels, Belgium.
Mr. White is an avid golfer, runner and oarsman.
Education
University of California
at Berkeley – Boalt Hall School of Law
J.D., 1987
Harvard University, Graduate School of Business
M.B.A., 1979
Rutgers College, Rutgers University
BA, Economics, 1977 – Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
California
Awards
Recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2007 by
Super Lawyers magazine (independent research by Law &
Politics).
