Leonard Grayver

Phone: (310) 540-2000
E-mail: lgrayver@gwtllp.com
Fax: (310) 540-6609
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Mr. Grayver co-chairs GWT’s Emerging Company and International Business Transactions practice groups. He is fluent in Russian, and many of his international clients are from Russia or the former Soviet Union. He is the co-founder of the Eastern European Bar Association.

Mr. Grayver divides his time between corporate and litigation practices. Mr. Grayver’s corporate practice focuses on counseling middle-market, emerging growth, and start-up stage companies in areas of corporate and securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic business arrangements. In particular, Mr. Grayver has unique expertise in structuring venture capital financings (representing both issuers and venture capitalists). He is also experienced in negotiating and drafting a wide range of business arrangements, including joint venture agreements, executive employment contracts, licensing, distribution and marketing agreements and various general corporate and commercial contracts for companies in a variety of industries.

Mr. Grayver has substantial experience in venture capital fund formation and regularly advises general and limited partners on fund structures, latest industry standards on business terms, and emerging issues.

Mr. Grayver’s litigation practice is concentrated on business and employment litigation. His recent accomplishments include successful defense of a civil RICO action against a leading Russian consulting firm; early dismissal of a lawsuit involving an important Japanese corporation; successful prosecution of a lawsuit against former executives of a Japanese high tech company, resulting in a multi-million dollar judgment; and successful settlement of an employment discrimination and harassment lawsuit against a prominent financial company.

Mr. Grayver writes and lectures frequently on private equity, corporate, and technology licensing issues. He has authored a definitive Russian-language guide to venture capital financings.

Before joining GWT, Mr. Grayver was a corporate associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading Silicon Valley law firm, and an investment banking associate at BKL Capital.

Recent Transactions

VC Fund Structuring and Due Diligence

$500 million Silicon Valley/Asia VC Fund (representing LPs) 

$400 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing LPs) 

$350 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing LPs) 

$100 million Silicon Valley/Russia VC Fund (representing LPs) 

$60 million UK/Russia VC Fund (representing GP) 

$80 million Cayman Islands/Russia VC Fund (representing GP) 

$40 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)

VC Financing Transactions

$4 million investment in a Southern California
based manufacturer of 3D monitors (represented investors)

$5 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
social network company (represented investors)

$3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
anti-virus protection company (represented investors)

$4 million investment in a Southern California
based substance detection company (represented investors)

$4 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
medical imaging company (represented investors)

$2 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
Video on Demand provider (represented investors)

$4 million investment in an Ireland based 3D visual
communications company (represented investors)

$2 million investment in a Russia based 3D content
provider (represented the company)

$2 million investment in a San Diego/Russia based
face-recognition technology company (represented
the company)

$2 million investment in a Russia based VOIP
provider (represented the investor)

$1 million investment in a Russia based cloud
computing service (represented the investor)

$10 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
3D solutions provider (represented the company)

$3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based
internet server technology (represented the company)

$1 million investment in Russia based cloud
computing solutions provider (represented the
investor)

Business and Employment Litigation

Successful defense of a civil RICO action brought
against a leading Russian consulting firm

Successful settlement of a civil RICO lawsuit
against a leading Russian oil company

Successful defense of a lawsuit against a US
subsidiary of a large Japanese defense contractor

Successful prosecution of a lawsuit against former
executives of a large Japanese technology company,
leading to a $26 million judgment

Successful motion to compel arbitration involving
a large public Japanese pharmaceutical company

Numerous successful resolutions of employment
discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits
representing both employers and employees

 

Leonard Grayver

Education:                                      
  • B.A., UCLA, 1996
  • J.D., UCLA Law School, 2000
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