News

• March 12, 2008

  WeGame.com, Inc. closes its Series B Preferred Stock Financing with True Ventures, The Hit Forge and SoftTechVC.

  Press Release: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/12/wegames-19-year-old-founder-raises-3-million-financing/

• December 20, 2007

  Ticketmaster Announces Paciolan Deal Set to Close.

  Press Release: http://press.ticketmaster.com/Extranet/TMPRArticlePressReleases.aspx?id=5500

• December 11, 2007

  Vaccine Technologies, Inc. closes first tranche of its Series B-2 Preferred Stock Financing with Morningside Technology Ventures.

• October 10, 2007

  Matrivax, Inc. closes its Series A Preferred Stock Financing with Morningside Technology Ventures.

• October 9, 2007

  Oracle Buys Automated Applications Controls Leader LogicalApps.

  Press Release: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_oct/logicalapps.html

• July 11, 2007

  LogicalApp supports Qualcomm’s rapid financial close with embedded process automation solution.

  Press Release: http://www.logicalapps.com/pdf/press_release/PRQUALCOMMFINAL.pdf

• July 2, 2007

  Paciolan enters into an agreement to be acquired by Ticketmaster.

• April 2, 2007

  BlueRun Ventures leads investment in the Series C Preferred Stock financing of Hyperpia, Inc.

• March 28, 2007

  Vaccine Technologies, Inc. closes its Series B Preferred Stock financing with Morningside Technology Ventures.

• March 2, 2007

  Fortis General Counsel, LLP (FGC) is proud to announce that Joyce Lan Kim has joined FGC as a Counsel in its Silicon Valley office. Joyce brings to FGC an extensive experience in representing Web 2.0 companies. Joyce also represents a variety of clients ranging from software companies, angel and seed investors, and consulting services companies.

  Joyce is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of New York. Prior to joining Fortis General Counsel, Joyce practiced law in the Palo Alto office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where she worked on venture capital financings and merger and acquisition transactions involving U.S. and Korean companies. Joyce was also a member of the capital markets group in the New York office of Shearman & Sterling LLP where she worked on securities regulation issues, exchange offers, and debt and equity offerings ranging in value from $150 million to $1.35 billion.

• March 1, 2007

  Fortis General Counsel, LLP (FGC) is pleased to announce that Joe Hayashi has joined FGC as a Partner in its Southern California office. The addition of Joe enhances FGC’s premier services in representing start-ups and emerging growth companies in all corporate transactions, including venture and debt financings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, recapitalizations, corporate governance and strategic business counseling, licensing and commercial agreements, and closely-held businesses, including partnerships, sole proprietorships and limited liability companies. Joe’s experience includes representing start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in various industries ranging from technology to life sciences.

  Prior to joining Fortis General Counsel, Joe practiced law in the Southern California offices of Dorsey & Whitney LLP and the Silicon Valley offices of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP representing venture capital firms and investment banks that fund emerging companies and acting as general outside counsel to companies at all stages of development. Joe is a member of the State Bar of California.

• February 19, 2007

  Fortis General Counsel, LLP (FGC) is pleased to welcome Joey M. Tran as a Partner in its Silicon Valley office. Joey formerly practiced law at the Palo Alto offices of WilmerHale. The addition of Joey marks the further strategic expansion of FGC’s Silicon Valley office.

  Joey’s practice focuses on outsourced general counsel services, with an emphasis on the general representation of emerging growth companies in all stages of maturity. Joey has represented a wide variety of companies - ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies - and in many industries - ranging from technology companies to Web 2.0 companies to life sciences companies.

  Joey has handled all matters of corporate representation, including venture capital and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and strategic counseling, IP/technology licensing and commercial agreements. Joey has structured, managed and led both venture capital equity financings and convertible debt financings with an aggregate value of over $230,000,000. He has facilitated mergers, acquisitions and asset purchase transactions with an aggregate value of over $740,000,000 between both private and public companies. As primary outside corporate counsel, Joey has drafted and negotiated a broad range of commercial licenses and agreements, including software licenses, software development and assignment, joint development, technology transfer, distribution, product distribution, strategic partnership, professional services, reseller, application service provider, master subscription, office lease and sublease agreements.

  Joey is a member of the State Bar of California. Joey received his B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology and B.A., Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

• February 7, 2007

  Hewlett-Packard acquires Bitfone Corporation.

  Press Release: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/mobility/nr_070207.pdf

• February 1, 2007

  Fortis General Counsel, LLP (FGC) is proud to announce the opening of its new office in Silicon Valley. Ideally situated to address the growing legal needs of start-ups, FGC’s new office is located at One Lagoon Drive, Suite 100 in Redwood Shores, California.

  About Fortis General Counsel, LLP

  Fortis General Counsel, LLP is a boutique law firm that provides general counsel services, as well as traditional corporate and technology licensing legal services, to emerging growth companies primarily in the technology sector. We advise a broad range of clients from mature public companies to early stage startup companies. Our objective is to provide companies with services typically provided by a general counsel in a cost-effective and responsive manner.

  Our partners have previously served as general counsel, or provided general counsel services, to a wide variety of emerging growth companies. We provide our emerging growth clients with an opportunity to receive the benefits of an in-house general counsel without incurring the costs of a full-time employee or large law firm rates. Our flexible business model allows our partners to work with, or as an alternative to, our clients’ outside corporate counsel.

  We provide our clients with practical legal and business advice by immediately integrating with our clients’ management teams. Our general counsel services concentrate on general corporate counseling, technology licensing transactions, venture financings, mergers & acquisitions, employment counseling, intellectual property protection, business formation and management of other outside counsel.

• January 31, 2007

  JDSU selects LogicalApps to meet compliance requirements.

  Press Release: http://www.logicalapps.com/pdf/press_release/JDSU.pdf

• October 31, 2006

  Alltel adopts Bitfone's FusionDM for Standards-Based Firmware Over-the-Air.

  Press Release: http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/061031/107735.html

• April 19, 2006

  Miartech closes $6 Million in first round of institutional funding.

• February 28, 2006

  Bitfone Corporation announced that 3, the UK mobile media company, has selected Bitfone to launch their over-the-air firmware update service using Bitfone's software.

  Press Release: http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/March2006/2694.htm

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