Jeffrey Gould
Lawyers
Represents issuers and underwriters on a wide range of public and private securities offerings, with a focus on transactions in technology and life sciences.
Jeff represents issuers and underwriters on a wide range of public and private securities offerings, including debt and convertible debt financings, initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings. He also advises clients on public reporting and corporate governance matters. His practice focuses primarily on transactions involving technology and life sciences companies.
Experience highlights
Financings
- Comcast’s $16.7 billion acquisition of GE’s interest in NBCUniversal, including the related $4.7 billion of debt and preferred stock financing at the 3(c)(7) investment company exempt issuer, NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc.
- Convertible debt offerings by Yahoo!, NVIDIA, Workday, Solazyme, Palo Alto Networks, Affymetrix, Lam Research and others
- Investment-grade debt offerings by Cisco, Intel, Juniper Networks, KLA Tencor and others
- High-yield debt offerings by Equinix and others
- IPO and follow-on equity offerings by Netflix, GT Advanced Technologies, Endocyte, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Xeno Port and others
- Getty Investments on the take-private transaction of Getty Images by Hellman & Friedman and the subsequent sale to The Carlyle Group
General Corporate Advisory Work
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Public reporting, securities compliance and corporate governance advice for Solazyme, among other companies
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School
- Associate Managing Editor, Stanford Journal of International Law
M.A., Germanic Studies, Yale University
B.A., Germanic Studies, Amherst College
- Phi Beta Kappa
Professional history
- Counsel, 2013-present
- Associate, Davis Polk, 2007-2013
- Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, 2003-2006
Qualifications and admissions
- State of California
- State of New York