Benjamin A. Potter
Partner
Silicon Valley
benjamin.potter@lw.com
+1.650.328.4600
PRACTICES
- Digital Assets & Web3
- Emerging Companies & Growth
- Israel Practice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Public Company Representation
INDUSTRIES
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Technology
EDUCATION
- JD, University of Michigan Law School, 2006
cum laude - MBA, University of Michigan, 2006
- BA in History, Yale University, 1998
with distinction
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Ben Potter advises private and public companies, venture capital, and private equity firms, as well as investment banks involved in the technology, life sciences, and other growth industries. He serves as Global Chair of the Emerging Companies & Growth Practice and is the former Global Chair of the Technology Industry Group.
Ben provides clients timely hands-on support and leverages access to the full resources of the firm’s global platform. He draws on considerable legal insight and complementary prior experience at IBM Global Services and two education startup companies in New York City.
Ben provides clients with company representation on a full range of matters and transactions, including:
- Public and private financing transactions
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Formation issues
- Employment matters
- Equity incentives
- Securities law compliance
- License agreements
- Corporate governance matters
EXPERIENCE
Ben’s representative clients include:
Technology
- Adept
- Agility Robotics
- Area 1 Security
- Atomic Industries
- Bolt
- Black Forest Labs
- Braintrust
- Bright Cellars
- Bright Machines
- Canva
- Clarify Health
- Codi
- Convex
- dbt Labs
- Discord
- Dolls Kill
- Duolingo
- Evernote
- Expensify
- Fourier
- Fractal
- Genmo
- GoFor
- Grammarly
- Headspace
- HomeLight
- Impossible Foods
- Iron Ox
- Joby Aviation
- KoBold Metals
- Light
- Lovelace
- Medallion
- Memebox
- Mosaic
- Nobell Foods
- Optimus Ride
- Opto Investments
- Oura
- Ouster
- Owlet
- Perplexity
- Playtika
- Prepared
- Puzzle
- Pydantic
- Range
- Roam
- Rundoo
- Saronic
- SKILD AI
- Skillz
- Sleeper
- Solvvy
- Standard Metrics
- Sunwink
- Synack
- Syntiant
- Turvo
- Upside Foods
- Zarta
- Zeal
- ZeroAvia
Blockchain, Crypto, and Web3
- Aave
- Aptos
- Arpeggi
- Astaria
- Azra Games
- Bitwise
- Collective
- Connext
- Core Loop
- DeFi Alliance
- Draup
- EigenLayer
- Element
- Flow Carbon
- Halliday
- Joyride
- Mad Realities
- NEAR
- Nillion
- Nouns
- OpenSea
- OrangeDAO
- Paper.xyz
- Phantom
- Polygon
- Ritual
- Staked
- Star Atlas
- Sup
- Superdrop
- Syndicate
- Turnkey
- Wintermute
Life Sciences, Healthcare, and Medical Devices
- 3T Biosciences
- 4D Molecular Therapeutics
- Afferent Pharmaceuticals
- CARGO Therapeutics
- Character
- Coherus BioSciences
- Corium
- Crossover Health
- Curai
- Curasen Therapeutics
- Genascence
- Harbor Health
- Ideaya
- Imago BioSciences
- Innocoll Biotherapeutics
- Latus
- Memora Health
- Moment Biosciences
- Myome
- NewLimit
- Pionyr
- PROCEPT BioRobotics
- Tizona Therapeutics
- Trishula Therapeutics
- WellTheory
Venture Capital and Private Equity
- 8VC
- a16z
- B-Flexion
- Base10
- BuildersVC
- Coatue
- Eclipse
- EnergizeVC
- General Catalyst
- Gurnet Point Capital
- KKR
- Lightspeed
- Meritech Capital Partners
- Pantera
- Paradigm
- Polaris Partners
- Sequoia
- Silver Lake
- Softbank
- Variant