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About Danielle
Danielle’s practice focuses on representing emerging companies and venture capital investors in the formation and financing of high-growth technology and life sciences companies. She also counsels emerging companies on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, spinouts, and general corporate matters, and she has experience representing companies with respect to their initial public offerings and various other public financing and strategic transactions.
Danielle is an active member of the National Venture Capital Association’s general counsel advisory board, and she’s a frequent speaker for the Practising Law Institute, the American Bar Association and various law schools. In 2024, she was recognized as a Band 4 lawyer for venture capital in California by Chambers USA; in 2022 and 2021, she was listed among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America; and in 2015, she was an honoree at the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s Tribute to Women in Industry.
Education
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
JD, 2000
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
AB, 1997, History, with honors
Rankings and accolades
Chambers USA: Venture Capital – California (2023 – 2024)
Northern California Super Lawyers: Rising Star
Lawdragon: 500 Leading Dealmakers in America
YWCA of Silicon Valley: Tribute to Women in Industry