Wilmer Hale - Palo Alto
Curtis Mo is the founding and managing partner of WilmerHale's Palo Alto Office and a member of the Corporate Department. Mr. Mo is recognized as a leading corporate and securities lawyer in Silicon Valley. He has represented emerging growth companies, major public companies, investment banks, venture capital funds and private equity funds in hundreds of public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital financings and other complex transactions. He has extensive experience in corporate governance matters and regularly acts as general outside counsel to companies at all stages of development, particularly in the technology, life sciences and retail sectors. Mr. Mo also has lectured extensively at seminars sponsored by the Practising Law Institute and other professional groups and has given expert legal commentary on emerging growth companies and the technology sector for CNN Moneyline, CNBC Business Center and various publications. Representative clients have included Cisco Systems, Digital Island, Doubletree Hotels, E*TRADE Group, JetBlue Airways, Restoration Hardware and many top-tier investment banks and venture capital funds in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Israel. Mr. Mo is a co-chair of PLI's Annual Institute on Securities Regulation and has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Annual Securities Regulation Institute in San Diego.