Michael Glaser

Michael Glaser is a leading Partner in the firm's Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, which earned Perkins Coie recognition as U.S. News & World Reports, "Firm of the Year for Venture Capital Law" in 2012 and 2013.  Michael is involved in firm management as a member of Perkins Coie's Executive Committee. Michael has a background in finance, and he brings a valuable quantitative perspective to transactional negotiations through modeling and other analytical tools. Michael is a member of the Model Document Working Group for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and a leader in the effort to streamline venture capital negotiations through the use of standardized documents.  He has led clients in the consumer e-commerce, interactive entertainment, digital media, cloud services, and premise-based software sectors through hundreds of venture capital transactions ranging from seed stage through mezzanine financings. Michael's clients have been financed by top tier traditional venture capital firms, such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Accel Partners, as well as leading "super-angel" firms such as SV Angel, Felicis Ventures and Floodgate Capital. Michael also has an active M&A practice, and has advised clients in complex mergers and strategic business combinations ranging in size from several million dollars to several hundred million dollars. Michael works with a number of non-profit organizations including Twestival and Jamie Oliver's Food Foundation.

REPRESENTATIVE EMERGING COMPANY CLIENTS

• Animoto (interactive media)
• Applifier (mobile gaming)
• App.net (social media)
• AVST (enterprise communications)
• Ayasdi (big data / analytics)
• Balanced (online payments)
• BranchOut (career networking)
• Bunchball (web gamification)
• Couchsurfing (social travel)
• Exablox (storage appliances)
• Fonality (cloud communications)
• Gridium (energy management analytics)
• imgix (cloud-based image processing)
• Mashape (marketplace for APIs)
• Media Gobbler (cloud services for media professionals)
• Nexus Research Intelligence (business analytics)
• PogoPlug (personal cloud storage)
• RentJuice (residential rental property search)
• Rocket Space (tech accelerator)
• SOMA Water (consumer products)
• Sporcle (interactive media)
• StarAppz (mobile app subscription)
• ToyTalk (consumer product/media)
• TenMarks Education (interactive media for education)
• Triposo (travel apps)
• Trulia (residential real estate services)
• Zetta (enterprise cloud storage)

Professional Recognition

• Ranked by Chambers USA, as one of "America's Leading Venture Capital Lawyers", 2011 - 2012
• Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine as a "Northern California Rising Star," 2011 - 2012
• Named one of Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "40 under 40" in 2007
• Rated as AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell
  (AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.) 
• Speaker, panelist and moderator at technology business events sponsored by organizations such as Stanford BASES/Forge, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Red Herring, IBDNetwork, TiEcon and the Hastings Business Law Journal

Professional Leadership

• National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Model Document Working Group, member, 2006 - present
• ABA Working Group on Legal Opinions, Member, 2010 - 2012

Related Employment

• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA, Corporate Securities Associate, 1997-1999
• Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY, Summer Associate, 1996
• Morgan Stanley, New York, NY, Summer Associate, 1995