Thomas concentrates his practice on strategic and practical business counseling for technology and life sciences companies, as well as venture capital firms, in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including venture capital financings, debt financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations.
Thomas has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by the Super Lawyers magazine and honored in Lawyers of Color’s 2013 inaugural Hot List Issue, recognizing early- to mid-career attorneys “excelling in the legal profession.”
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Representative Venture Capital Financings
- Airship in its $25M Series F and $8.3M Series E financings
- CloudKnox in its most recent $12M financing
- Devoted Health in its $300M Series B financing
- DISQO in its $13.5M Series A financing
- Elysium Health in its $20M Series B financing
- Figma in its $50M Series D financing
- Future Research in its $8.5M Series A financing
- Invoca in its $56M financing
- Ironclad in its $50M Series C and $23M Series B financings
- Menlo Ventures in various financings, including Homelight’s $40M Series B financing
- Modern Animal it its $13.5M Series Seed financing
- Molekule in its $58M Series C, $25M Series B and $10M Series A financings
- Ontera Bio in its $24.5M Series A financing
- Remitly in its $85M Series F financing, $220M Series E, $115M Series D and $38.5M Series C financings
- SEMA Translink in various financings (investor side)
- ScoutRFP in its $33M Series C financing
- Yapstone in its $71M Series C financing
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Representative Mergers and Acquisitions
- CommerceIQ in its sale of Retail Analytics Platform to Lowe’s
- Cisco in multiple acquisitions, including its $5B acquisition of NDS Group, its acquisition of Cariden and its acquisition of ClearAccess
- Concur in its $8.3B acquisition by SAP
- Dropbox in its acquisition of Parastructure
- Nexon in its acquisition of Big Huge Gamesand its strategic investment in Embark
- Sonosite in its $995M acquisition by Fujifilm Holdings
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Representative Initial Public Offerings and Capital Market Transactions
- Fitbit in its $732M initial public offering, as well as its $493M follow-on public offering
- Rocket Fuel in its $116M initial public offering, as well as its $305M follow-on public offering
- Sonos in its $208.3M initial public offering
- Tableau Software in its $375M and $500M follow-on offerings
- Trupanion in its initial public offering
- Workday in multiple convertible senior note offerings
- Zillow in its $172M follow-on offering
Representative Clients
- Airship
- Bonfire Ventures
- CloudKnox Security
- CommerceIQ
- Devoted Health
- DiCE Molecules
- DISQO
- Figma
- Holloway
- Invoca
- Ironclad
- Knowable
- Menlo Ventures
- Modern Animal
- Molekule
- Nexon
- Nift Networks
- NimbleRX
- Rapid API
- Remitly
- Rock The Bells
- Scout RFP
- Searchlight.ai
- SEMA Translink
- Sonos
- Thunkable
- Tophatter
- Tubular Labs
- Ventec Life Systems
- VYRL
- WorkOS
- Yapstone
Education & Admissions
J.D., University of Washington School of Law
M.A., International Economics and Korea Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University
U.S.-Korea Institute Fellowship
B.A., Political Science/International Relations
University of California, San Diego
Admitted to practice in California and Washington