Education

J.D., School of Law, Santa Clara University
Honors Moot Court, Evidence Instructor - Academic Success Program, Law Faculty Scholarship

Certificate of Completion, Magdalen College, Oxford University
International Human Rights

B.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Dean’s Honor List, Association of Rhetoric Majors, contributing writer - The Heuristic Squelch

Memberships

The State Bar of California

Organizations

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)
Executive Committee, Advisors Chair.

Curriki
Advisor, Legal Counsel.

Robert M. Dang Partner

Silicon Valley Office
One Lagoon Drive, Suite 100
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
650.489.0851 direct
650.489.0950 fax

Rob’s practice focuses on outsourced general counsel services, with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, corporate governance and general business counseling. Rob has served as the primary outside corporate counsel to over two hundred emerging growth technology companies in various stages of maturity, in a wide variety of industries within the technology sector.

Prior to founding Fortis General Counsel, Rob was in private practice at a Silicon Valley corporate law firm, where he gained significant experience in venture capital debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions involving private and public companies, technology licensing and general corporate transactions. Rob has been responsible for all aspects of the negotiation and documentation of numerous venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and technology licensing and commercial transactions.

Prior to his practice in Silicon Valley, Rob was an associate in a San Francisco civil litigation law firm, where he was responsible for the briefing and oral argument of over one hundred law and motion matters, including dispositive motions, the prosecution and defense of lay and expert witnesses, and all other phases of litigation, including appellate work. During this time, Rob also successfully briefed an unpublished appeal in the 3rd Appellate District of California, and was appointed to grade the California State Bar Examination.

Rob received a JD from the University of Santa Clara School of Law, 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 currently serves 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 Scott McNealy and Sun Microsystems, Inc., which is building an Open Source Curriculum to provide universal access to curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12. Rob is a member of the State Bar of California.

Clients Represented:

  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Tesla Motors, Inc.
  • Spectrum Equity Investors
  • Matrivax, Inc.
  • Seoul Semiconductor, Ltd.
  • Vaccine Technologies, Inc. (funded by Morningside Ventures)
  • New Enterprise Associates
  • 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)
  • Picocraft Design Systems, Inc.
  • NetIQ
  • Tonic Systems, Inc. (acquired by Google)
  • Genomic Instrumentation Services (acquired by Genomic Solutions, a subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBIO))
  • Rocket Ventures
  • Curriki.org
  • ChinaVest Ltd.
  • Neopad Technologies Corporation (funded by Nokia Venture Partners, Intel Capital)
  • Novus Ventures
  • mFoundry (funded by Apax Partners, Ignition Partners)
  • Wink Technologies, Inc. (funded by Greylock Partners, Endeavor Group)