Jorge Del Calvo Profile


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Name:	Jorge Del Calvo
Company:	Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP
Title:	Co-Chair of Silicon Valley Business Group
Profile:	Mr. del Calvo focuses on the representation of technology companies in venture capital and securities transactions, including public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He joined the firm in 1982 and was made a partner in 1990. Mr. del Calvo currently serves as co-chair of the firm's Silicon Valley Business Group. During his career, Mr. del Calvo has represented the issuer in hundreds of public and private offerings of equity securities, including initial public offerings for PeopleSupport, Inc., Atheros, Inc., Synnex, Inc., Magma Design Automation, Inc.,WebEx, Inc., SupportSoft, Inc., Tvia, Inc., Alliance Fiber Optics Products, Inc., Critical Path, Inc., Network Solutions, Inc., Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., SONICblue Incorporated, Paradigm Technology, Inc., and NexGen, Inc. In 2000, he represented Network Solutions in its $2,200,000,000 follow-on public offering, which was the largest internet follow-on public equity offering in history. Mr. del Calvo has also been involved in numerous merger and acquisition transactions, representing both sellers and purchasers. Representative transactions include; Applied Semantics in its merger with Google; Jareva in its merger with Veritas; Teralogic in its merger with Oak; NexGen in its merger with AMD; Yago in its merger with Cabletron; Acclaim Communications in its merger with Level One; and NETCOM in its merger with ICG. Mr del Calvo's representation of investment bankers includes work with such clients as Goldman Sachs & Co., Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, Lehman Brothers Inc., A.G. Edwards, and Needham & Company, Inc. on a number of public offerings, private placements, spin-offs, and other transactions. Mr. del Calvo has also represented a number of venture funds (including Redwood Ventures IV and Raza Venture Fund A and B) and incubators (including New Path, LLC and Raza Foundries) in connection with their formation and has represented a number of venture capital funds and investors in private placements of equity and debt. Currently, Mr. del Calvo is on the board of directors of Riverstone Networks (RSTN), Berkeley Process Control and Deepa Textiles. He has served on a number of other boards in the past, including those of Procket Networks, Xambala and New Path, LLC. Mr. del Calvo is a Coordinating Editor of the Venture Capital and Public Offering Negotiation, a two-volume treatise for lawyers. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford Law School where he has taught several corporate law courses and Continuing Education for the Bar (CEB) courses. Mr. del Calvo is a charter member of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Asian American Multicultural Association (AAMA), and HispanicNet. He has been a speaker at various conferences sponsored by TiE, AAMA, HispanicNet, Silican Iran, and other industry organizations. Education J.D., Harvard Law School (cum laude), 1981 M.A., Harvard University (public policy), 1981 M.A., University of California at Los Angeles (Latin American History), 1978 B.A., Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction), 1977 N.D., University of the Philippines, 1982 Affiliations Admitted to practice: State of California Member of: American Bar Association