Los Angeles, CA – Silicon Legal Strategy announced today that Bess Blumenfeld has joined the firm as a managing associate in its Los Angeles office. Bess represents emerging companies and investors in formation and startup matters, venture capital equity and debt financings, mergers & acquisitions and other strategic transactions, and in day-to-day corporate matters.
Prior to joining SLS, Bess was a senior associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where she advised startups, late-stage private companies and venture capital investors. She previously advised public and private corporate clients and venture capital investors with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Gunderson Dettmer.
Bess received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif.
“SLS has built a practice around genuinely understanding what founders and investors need, and I am excited to contribute to the firm’s mission of providing premier legal services to our clients,” said Bess. “I’m thrilled to work alongside this talented, dedicated and kind team.”
“Bess is exactly the kind of advisor founders and funds keep close,” said Gaurav Mathur, Partner at Silicon Legal and head of its Los Angeles office. “She pairs the transactional depth she built at firms like Skadden and Gunderson with the hands-on counsel our clients count on. We’re ecstatic she is joining the SLS team.”
About Silicon Legal Strategy
Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup — like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We face these challenges every day — and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually “get” what entrepreneurs are going through.
