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Daniel Wu

Dan Wu represents emerging growth companies at all stages, and the venture capital and private equity firms and strategic investors that finance them. His work with companies spans the entire corporate life cycle, including advising on formation, governance, financings, commercial arrangements, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He closely works with companies in the space and defense and frontier tech industries as well as consumer internet, digital media, software-as-a-service (SaaS), e-commerce, fintech, video games, and digital assets/Web3.

For companies, Dan guides strategic decisions before incorporation, provides day-to-day corporate counseling, and handles venture capital financings. He negotiates commercial contracts and joint ventures, and advises on acquisitions and capital markets transactions.

Dan also represents venture capital and private equity firms and strategic investors in venture financings and M&A. Over his career, he has advised companies, investors, buyers, and sellers in hundreds of venture capital and M&A transactions with an aggregate value exceeding US$10 billion. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at a global investment bank.

Dan’s clients have been funded by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Point72, Upfront Ventures, 8VC, Mac Venture Capital, General Catalyst, First Round, Mayfield, Kakao Ventures, Initialized Capital, 776, Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, Idealab and Mucker.

He has presented on venture financing, startup legal practices, and technology industry topics at events such as Techstars, USC Demo Day, 4YFN Summit, and programs hosted by accelerators and investors.

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