Fortis General Counsel | Attorneys

Robert M. Dang Partner

Silicon Valley Office
One Lagoon Drive, Suite 100
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
650.489.0851 direct
650.475.1840 fax
rdang@fortisgc.com

Rob’s practice focuses on providing general counsel services to technology startups, with an emphasis on corporate finance, technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general business counseling. Rob has served as the outsourced general counsel to hundreds of emerging growth companies in various stages of maturity, in a wide variety of industries within the technology and life sciences sectors. Rob also serves as investor counsel to various individuals and entrepreneurs in their angel investments, as well as serving as private counsel to founders and entrepreneurs.

Prior to co-founding Fortis General Counsel in 2005, Rob was in private practice at a Silicon Valley corporate law firm, where he gained extensive experience in handling all aspects of the negotiation and documentation of venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions transactions involving private and public companies, and technology licensing and general corporate transactions. During this time, Rob was Tesla Motors, Inc.'s primary corporate counsel, advising them from their formation, the development of their prototype roadster, and through multiple rounds of venture capital financing.

Prior to his corporate practice in Silicon Valley, Rob was an associate at a San Francisco litigation firm which specialized in complex, high-value cases. Rob was responsible for the briefing and oral argument of law and motion matters, including dispositive motions, the prosecution and defense of lay and expert witness depositions, arbitrations and mediations, and all other phases of litigation, including appellate work. During this time, Rob also handled a successful appeal in the 3rd Appellate District of California, and was selected to grade the California State Bar Examination.

Rob received a JD from the University of Santa Clara School of Law in 1996, where he participated in the Honors Moot Court program. Rob was also an instructor in the school’s Street Law program for disadvantaged youths, as well as an Evidence Instructor for the Academic Success Program. Rob also completed coursework in International Human Rights at Oxford University, Magdalen College. Rob received his undergraduate degree in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Dean’s Honor List. Rob previously served on the Executive Committee of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), an organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. Rob also serves as an advisor to Curriki, a nonprofit organization founded by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and its Chairman, Scott McNealy, which has been developing an Open Source Curriculum and platform to provide universal access to curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12. Rob lives with his wife and two daughters in Hillsborough.

Clients Represented:

Socialcast (founded by Tim Young, funded by Menlo Ventures, True Ventures, acquired by VMware NYSE:VMW)
WhatsApp Inc.
Kontagent Inc.(funded by Battery Ventures, Altos Ventures, Maverick Capital)
gdgt (founded by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, funded by Spark Capital, True Ventures)
Uber (founded by Garrett Camp)
Delivering Happiness, LLC (Founded by Tony Hsieh)
Zynga (formerly Presidio Media)
Garrett Camp/Series-G, LLC
Matrivax, Inc. (funded by Morningside Technology Ventures)
Vaccine Technologies, Inc. (funded by Morningside Technology Ventures)
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Support Intelligence, Inc.
Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
BetaNews
Yahoo!, Inc.
TheFind, Inc.
New Enterprise Associates
Causecast Corporation
Actional Corporation (funded by New Enterprise Associates, NeoCarta Ventures. Acquired by Progress Software Corporation)
Sycon Design, Inc. (Acquired by Magma Design Automation Inc. (NASDAQ: LAVA))
Velocity11 (funded by Mayfield, and acquired by Agilent)
Picocraft Design Systems, Inc.
Tonic Systems, Inc. (acquired by Google)
Genomic Instrumentation Services (acquired by Genomic Solutions, a subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBIO))
Curriki.org
mFoundry (funded by Apax Partners, Ignition Partners)
Wink Technologies, Inc. (funded by Greylock Partners, Endeavor Group)