Gittings Global - NE85803

Luca Marquard

Associate

luca.marquard@lw.com
    Gittings Global - NE85803

    Luca Marquard

    Associate

    luca.marquard@lw.com

    Profile

    Luca Marquard is an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins.

    Luca focuses his practice on advising growth-stage companies in various industries, including software, fintech, life sciences and energy, and venture capital funds investing in such companies. Luca advises his clients in various transactional matters, including:

    • Venture capital financings
    • Early-stage formation and corporate strategy
    • Commercial agreements
    • Day-to-day corporate matters

    Luca is a member of the Emerging Companies & Growth and Digital Assets & Web3 Practices. With a commercial mindset, he provides innovative solutions to cryptocurrency and Web3 companies on token launches, DAO formation, and related regulatory matters.

    Luca also advises public companies on buy- and sell-side M&A transactions, equity and debt offerings, and public company reporting matters.

    Luca received his law degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. While in law school, he served as a senior editor of the Southern California Law Review and was an LLM Legal Writing Fellow. 

    Before attending law school, Luca competed as a division 1 college tennis player at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as team captain for two years.

    Experience

    Luca’s experience includes advising:

    • X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC in its:
      • US$500 million Series C-1 financing anchored by Amazon and related commercial agreement
      • US$80 million Series C financing and ongoing corporate work
      • Ongoing corporate work
    • ZeroAvia, Inc. in its US$220 million Series C financing and ongoing corporate work
    • Anode Labs, Inc. in its Series A financing and issuance of token warrants
    • Tau Capital in its:
      • Series A investment in Acel Power Inc.
      • Seed investment in Tavo Biotherapeutics, Inc.
    • General Catalyst in its SAFE plus token warrant and Series A investments in HDX Labs, Inc.
    • ParaFi in its Series Seed investment in Playground Network Inc. (dba Internet Game)
    • FortunaFi Holdings, Inc. in its seed financing
    • Backdrop Labs, Inc. in its entity formation and SAFE investment round
    • Oculotherapy, LLC in its conversion from Tennessee LLC to Delaware corporation
    • Realty Income Corporation in its:  
      • US$9.3 billion acquisition of Spirit Realty Capital, Inc.
      • Bond offerings
      • ATM equity offerings 
      • Public company representation 
    • Prometheus Biosciences, Inc. in its US$10.8 billion acquisition by Merck

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2021
      Order of the Coif
    • BA in Economics, University of California, Irvine, 2018

    Languages Spoken

    • English
    • German

    Practices

    Industries

    Recognition

    Badges and Logos_Law360_Fintech Group of the Year_2024
    February 20, 2025 Recognition

    Fintech Group of the Year: Latham

    Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.

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