SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Silicon Legal continues to set the standard for venture capital legal expertise, ranking seventh in 2025 and securing a spot among the world’s top 10 VC law firms for the seventh consecutive year, according to PitchBook’s Data’s 2025 Annual Global League Tables.¹
Silicon Legal partner Andre Gharakhanian observes,
Seven consecutive years in PitchBook’s Global Top 10 is a milestone that speaks to something bigger than rankings. It reflects our focus on evolving alongside the market. In 2025, the Silicon Legal team rose to the challenge of advising a record number of venture capital deals while navigating the ongoing AI evolution and guiding clients through an unprecedented surge in M&A activity. Our clients come to us because we combine deep transactional expertise with the speed and business-first mindset that today’s most ambitious founders and investors demand. I’m incredibly proud of what this team continues to build.
In 2025, Silicon Legal advised clients in over 438 venture capital financings across the full startup lifecycle.
PitchBook’s league tables are the industry’s most comprehensive and independent coverage of venture capital firm and service provider deal activity. Their annual report provides the most complete information on rapidly changing trends in venture capital deal making.
In a year defined by the accelerating shift toward AI-driven innovation and a resurgence in M&A and exit activity, Silicon Legal remained a trusted partner to provide targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs, and seasoned investors.
Most active globally
| 1 | Gunderson Dettmer | 1453 |
| 2 | Cooley | 1360 |
| 3 | Goodwin | 779 |
| 4 | Orrick | 741 |
| 5 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 614 |
| 6 | DLA Piper | 464 |
| 7 | Silicon Legal Strategy | 438 |
| 8 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | 354 |
| 9 | Latham & Watkins | 353 |
| 10 | Fenwick & West | 323 |
PitchBook Data also ranked Silicon Legal highly across numerous sub-categories¹:
Company-Side Representation
| Global | #11 |
| US | #11 |
Investor-Side Representation
| Global | #5 |
| US | #4 |
| Europe | #19 |
Lifecycle
Representation
| Early Stage | #6 |
| Late Stage | #9 |
| Exits | #9 |
Industry Sectors
| Software | #6 |
| IT Hardware | #8 |
| Media | #2T |
| Energy | #8T |
| Transportation | #3 |
| Commercial Products & Services | #7 |
| Healthcare Services & Systems | #8 |
| Consumer Goods & Services | #14 |
| Pharma & BioTech | #14 |
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.