Silicon Legal Strategy Welcomes Former Fenwick & West Associate Guy Ladetzky

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 05, 2017 -- Silicon Legal Strategy today announced that Guy Ladetzky has joined the firm as a senior associate in its San Francisco office. 

Guy is a seasoned legal professional with over 15 years of experience practicing within law firms as well as within startups and large public companies.  He is a skilled advisor with a strong dedication to client service and relationship management. 

Prior to joining Silicon Legal, Guy was General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer at Requestek, LLC, a San Francisco-based technology company that develops virtual data rooms aimed at legal professionals.  Guy’s most recent corporate practice was at Fenwick & West LLP where he was an associate in their Corporate Group.  He represented companies in general corporate matters as well as mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital financings.   

Guy received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and his B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.  Guy is licensed to practice in California and Texas.

“Silicon Legal has become a trusted advisor to many well-respected startup and investor clients,” said Ladetzky.  “It is clear that these clients truly appreciate the firm’s own entrepreneurial drive and its client-focused approach. I am excited to join a firm that has established itself so well within the startup ecosystem.”

“Guy’s extensive background makes him an excellent addition to the Silicon Legal team,” said Andre Gharakhanian, partner at Silicon Legal Strategy.  “Guy has an incredible depth of knowledge that will be invaluable when guiding clients through both day-to-day corporate transactions as well as the more complex issues faced by later-stage companies.  We’re thrilled to be growing our team with such incredible talent and expect continued growth through the end of 2017.”

About Silicon Legal Strategy

Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup -- like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We don’t merely observe these challenges as lawyers on the sidelines -- we face them every day -- and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually "get" what entrepreneurs are going through.

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