Craig Jacoby

Craig represents high-growth companies and their investors. He has helped to form, finance and advise hundreds of emerging businesses in areas such as internet and digital media, consumer products, clean technologies, software, medical devices, and business services. He has led numerous startup financings, with an aggregate value in the billions of dollars, and has led teams advising companies on mergers and acquisitions.

Craig’s representative clients include AllTrails, Yelp, New Relic, Patreon, Alma, Ethic and Tecton. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2016 – 2023 editions of Chambers USA – Startups & Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, the 2015 and 2016 US editions of Legal 500 in the category of M&A/Corporate and Commercial – Venture Capital and Emerging Companies, and the 2016 – 2018 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. Additionally, he was recognized by The Recorder’s inaugural Innovator Awards in 2014.

Following law school, Craig was a judicial clerk with US District Judge Charles A. Legge of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, and he also studied Italian cinema as a Fulbright Scholar in Rome, Italy. Craig also co-founded the nonprofit organization VolunteerMatch and served as board chair for the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.