Practice Areas

Woodside Counsel is a boutique law firm that provides corporate legal services to public and private companies and the investors and professionals who work with them.  Our mission is to provide quality service to a select and limited number of clients of all sizes seeking timely and cost-effective corporate legal advice from quality attorneys without the more cumbersome bureaucracy and expense of a large, traditional law firm.

Recent Transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions
• Sophos in its acquisition of Rook Security;
• Anchor Brewing in its acquisition by Sapporo;
• Sophos in its acquisition of Invincea;
• Juno Therapeutics in its acquisition of AbVitro;
• Workday in its acquisition of MediaCore Technologies;
• SurveyMonkey in its acquisition of TechValidate;
• Sophos in its acquisition of DarkBytes;
• SurveyMonkey in its acquisition of Renzu;
• Juno Therapeutics in its acquisition of X-Body;
• Sophos in its acquisition of Avid Secure;
• SurveyMonkey in its acquisition of Fluidware;
• Organ-I in its acquisition by Immucor;
• BioPharm Systems in its acquisition by Perficient;
• Tessera Technologies in the sale of its micro-optics business to FLIR Systems;
• Zynga in its acquisition of November Software;
• SurveyMonkey in its sale of ZoomPanel to Critical Mix;
• LogLogic in its acquisition by Tibco;
• SurveyMonkey in its sale of TrueSample to Five Peaks Capital;
• Corel (CREL) in an unsolicited tender offer and going private transaction;
• DecisionView in its acquisition by IMS Health;
• Smule in its acquisition of Khush;
• Ebay in its acquisition of Mission Fish;
• Corel in its acquisition of Bibble Labs;
• Simplify Media in its acquisition by Google;
• Sundia in an asset purchase transaction; and
• Bare Fruit in an asset purchase transaction.

Finance
• Kubit AI in a Series Seed preferred financing;
• Lenovo in connection with various strategic investments;
• Smule in a Series H preferred financing;
• Smule in a Series G preferred financing;
• Smule in a Series F preferred financing;
• Lolli and Pops in connection with various preferred equity financings;
• SurveyMonkey in connection with various equity investments;
• Shiver Entertainment in a strategic investment by Nexon;
• Bare Foods in a Series A preferred financing led by NGEN;
• Smule in a Series E preferred financing;
• Partners for Growth in a convertible note financing by Comverge Inc. (COMV);
• Mytonomy in various debt financings;
• Smule in connection with various secured financing transactions;
• SwiftStack in a Series A financing;
• A founder and lead investor in a recapitalization and preferred financing for an educational software company;
• Smule in a Series D preferred financing;
• A technology company in a recapitalization and common stock offering;
• Partners for Growth in a loan and security financing for Selway Capital Acquisition Corporation;
• SwiftStack in a seed financing;
• Smule in a Series C preferred financing;
• GroundCntrl in various preferred stock financings;
• Partners for Growth in a secured financing for Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSII);
• Granite Ventures in a Series B Preferred financing for HireVue; and
• Smule in a Series B preferred financing.

Licensing, Partnering & Commercialization
• Shiver Entertainment in a strategic partnership with Nexon;
• Simplify Media in software license and distribution agreement with a leading OEM;
• DecisionView in numerous licensing transactions with leading pharmaceutical companies;
• Bunchball in numerous licensing transactions;
• A biotechnology company in a licensing and commercialization arrangement;
• A number of start-up companies entering into development or commercialization agreements; and
• Smule in a variety of in- and out-licensing transactions.

Emerging Growth Clients
• Great Bay Software
• Knowhere App
• Kubit AI
• Smule
• Shiver Entertainment
• Sundia

Employment & Compensation
• The Chief Financial Officer of a public  company in connection with his resignation and employment at a public company;
• The Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of a public technology company in connection with his resignation;
• The Chief Financial Officer in connection with commencement of employment at a public technology company;
• The General Counsel of a public technology company in connection with his resignation;
• The Executive Vice President of Marketing of a public technology company in connection with his resignation;
• The CEO and Chairman of the Board of a public healthcare company in connection with a management reorganization of the company; and
•Numerous private companies in connection with the retention and termination of board and management positions.