Michael Podolny
Partner
Silicon Valley
michael.podolny@lw.com
+1.650.470.4984
PRACTICES
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Governance
- Emerging Companies & Growth
- Investment Funds
- Israel Practice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Company Representation
INDUSTRIES
- Energy Tech
EDUCATION
- JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,
- BBA, Schulich School of Business, York University,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
PROFILE
Michael Podolny represents technology and life sciences companies from startup through exit as their outside corporate counsel.
Michael advises technology companies — ranging from startups to mature private and public companies — as well as venture capital and private equity firms that finance such companies, in day-to-day matters and a variety of corporate and securities transactions. He leads transactions on behalf of companies, investors, and entrepreneurs worth billions of dollars annually. His transactional work includes:
- Public and private financing transactions
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tender offers, liquidity programs, and secondary stock transactions
- Corporate governance matters
- Formations and restructurings
- Crowdfunding transactions
- Employment matters
- Equity incentives
- Securities law compliance
- License agreements
Often the first point of contact on day-to-day corporate and securities law matters, Michael regularly connects clients to the full breadth of Latham’s global platform.
With a robust cross-border practice, Michael regularly advises clients based in Israel, Australia, Europe, India, and East Asia.
EXPERIENCE
Michael's representative clients include:
- Canva
- Discord
- Grammarly
- Joby Aero
- Adept
- Perplexity
- Brillio
- Flare
- Shipper
- SummerBio
- PURE
- Ramp Corporation
- Infoworks
- Harbor Health
- Duetti
- Syntiant
- Riskified
- Vast Data
- Sirona Medical
- Trax Retail
- Zap Surgical Systems
- Earnix
- Sail Internet
- VideoVerse