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Michael A. Brown

Partner
Corporate

Throughout his career, Michael has advised emerging and established companies on some of the most high-profile transactions in the technology sector.
 

Michael serves as a trusted legal and business advisor to world-class technology companies—ranging from early-stage startups to mature, publicly traded corporations—in both day-to-day matters and a wide range of corporate transactions, including venture and growth financings, mergers and acquisitions, initial and follow-on public offerings, debt financings, and corporate reorganizations.

Michael has been involved in some of the most notable and industry-defining technology deals in recent years. Highlights include representing Wiz in its pending $32 billion sale to Google and $1 billion funding round; advising Coinbase on its direct listing and CoreWeave, Wealthfront, and BitGo in their initial public offerings; representing Databricks on a series of landmark financings, including its $10 billion Series J, $1 billion Series K, and $4B+ Series L; advising CoreWeave on nearly $1.3 billion across two secondary sales and its $1.1 billion Series C; and advising Bridge in its strategic sale to Stripe.

Michael has received numerous accolades and has been consistently recognized as a leading lawyer to technology companies and their investors by publications including Chambers, Law360, Legal 500, Super Lawyers, and LMG Life Sciences.

"Thank you Michael Brown and the Fenwick & West team for their outstanding partnership throughout the IPO process. Their guidance, commitment, and expertise were instrumental in helping us reach this milestone. Couldn't have asked for better partners on this journey."
Chuck Thompson
Chief Legal Officer, BitGo
  • Multiple financings for Horizon3.ai, including its $100M Series D, $40M Series C, and $30M Series B financing
  • Multiple financings for Databricks, including its $4B+ Series L, $1B Series K, $10B Series J, $500M Series I, $1.6B Series H, $1B Series G, $400M Series F, $250M Series E, and $140M Series D financing
  • Multiple financings for Relativity Space, including its $650M Series E, $500M Series D, and $140M Series C financing
  • Multiple financings for Tanium, including over $600M in common stock financings and its $120M Series G financing
  • Multiple financings for Carta, including its $500M Series G, $180M Series F, $300M Series E, and $80M Series D financing
  • Multiple financings for Illumio, including its $225M Series F, $65M Series E, $125M Series D, and $100M Series C financing
  • Multiple financings for Side, including its $150M Series D financing and additional $50M financing
  • Multiple financings for Dragos, including its $74M Series D extension, $200M Series D, and $110M Series C financing
  • Multiple financings for Anyscale, including its initial $100M Series C and additional $99M Series C financing
  • Multiple financings for Ursa Major, including its $100M Series E, $138M Series D and D-1 and $85M Series C financing
  • Multiple financings for Uber, including its publicly-announced $3.5B investment by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Series F, Series E, and Series D financing
  • Multiple financings for Airbnb, including its publicly-announced $1.5B Series E and $475M Series D financing
  • Multiple financings for Simbe, including its $50M Series C, $28M Series B, and Series A financing
  • Multiple financings for Modern Animal, including its $46M Series D, $75M Series C, and prior Series B and Series A financings
  • Multiple financings for Rainforest, including its $29M Series B, $20M Series A, and $8.5M Series Seed
  • CoreWeave in its $1.1B Series C funding and its $650M and $642M secondary sales
  • Wiz in its $1B funding
  • Securonix in its $1B+ financing led by Vista
  • AvantStay in its $160M Series B financing
  • MOLOCO in its $150M Series C financing
  • Nylas in its $120M Series C financing
  • Invoca in its $83M Series F financing
  • Multiple investments representing Alpha Edison, Fidelity Investments, and Lightspeed Ventures:
    • Alpha Edison in 30+ investments, including Red 6’s $97M Series B, Alto’s $40M Series B, Kin’s $35M Series B, Parsley Health’s $26M Series B, DoltHub’s $16M Series B, United Dwelling’s $10M Series B, Mojo’s $5.5M Series A, and Frame’s $5M Series Seed
    • Fidelity Investments in connection with 70+ investments, including xAI's $6B Series C and $6B Series B, OpenAI's $6.6B Series B, Stripe’s $6.9B Series I and $600M Series H, Epic’s $1.78B and $1B late-stage financings, ThoughtWorks’ $720M Series B, Lime’s $523M Series D, Zipline’s $330M Series F and $250M Series E, Bowery Farming’s $300M Series C, Sonder’s $170M Series E, Inscripta’s $150M Series E, and Endeavor in its initial investment as well as in connection with the company’s $511.2M IPO
    • Lightspeed Ventures in connection with multiple investments, including Anthropic's $13B Series F and $3.5B Series E, Vestwell's $125M Series D, Nexthop AI's $110M financings, and Farther's $31M Series B
  • Wiz in its pending sale to Google ($32B)
  • Bridge sale to Stripe
  • SingleStore in Growth Buyout led by Vector Capital
  • Alteryx sale to Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners ($4.4B)
  • Cepheid sale to Danaher ($4B)
  • Multiple acquisitions for Cisco Systems, including its acquisition of WebEx Communications ($3.2B)
  • Data Domain sale to EMC ($2.4B)
  • Opsware sale to Hewlett-Packard ($1.6B)
  • ArcSight sale to Hewlett-Packard ($1.5B)
  • Databricks acquisition of MosaicML ($1.3B)
  • Dermira sale to Eli Lilly ($1.1B)
  • OpenDNS sale to Cisco Systems ($635M)
  • ScoutRFP sale to Workday ($540M)
  • ThousandEyes sale to Cisco Systems
  • Doctor On Demand in its merger with Grand Rounds to form Included Health
  • Kareo in its merger with PatientPop to form Tebra
  • Vast in its acquisition of Launcher
  • Voyage Auto sale to Cruise
  • Elevate Security sale to Mimecast
  • Wiz in its acquisition of Gem Security
  • Dragos in its acquisition of Network Perception
  • Coinbase acquisitions of Cipher Browser, Keystone Capital, Earn.com, Memo.AI, Paradex, and Tagomi
  • Alteryx acquisitions of ClearStory Data, Lore IO, Semanta, Trifacta, and Yhat
  • Airship acquisitions of Accengage, Apptimize, Gummicube, and ReplyBuy
  • Carta acquisitions of Tactyc, Yearend, Preferred Return, MarketGrid, and Kik Interactive
  • Informatica initial public offering (underwriters’ counsel)
  • Coinbase direct listing and convertible senior notes offering
  • Nurix Therapeutics initial public offering and follow-on public offering
  • Alteryx initial public offering and follow-on public offering
  • Dermira initial public offering and multiple follow-on public offerings
  • Marin Software initial public offering and at-the-market offerings
  • Silver Spring Networks initial public offering
  • ArcSight initial public offering
  • Dexcom multiple follow-on public offerings
  • Glu Mobile follow-on public offering
  • Alteryx, Cepheid, Coinbase, Dermira, and Dexcom convertible debt offerings pursuant to Rule 144A
  • CoreWeave initial public offering
  • Wealthfront initial public offering
  • Airship
  • Alpha Edison
  • Alteryx
  • Anyscale
  • Bugcrowd
  • Carta
  • Coinbase
  • CoreWeave
  • Databricks
  • Dexcom
  • DISQO
  • Dragos
  • Espressive
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Illumio
  • Included Health
  • Instabase
  • Invoca
  • Kentik
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners
  • Machina Labs
  • Matroid
  • Modern Animal
  • Moment
  • Narvar
  • Nava
  • Nurix Therapeutics
  • Nylas
  • Pixxel Space
  • Relativity Space
  • Ruggable
  • Scopely
  • Side Real Estate
  • Simbe Robotics
  • Sonar Software
  • Tanium
  • Tebra
  • Ursa Major
  • Vast Space
  • Wealthfront
  • Wiz
  • Zumper