Corporate & Startup
Brooks Stough
Partner, Gunderson Dettmer · Redwood City, CA
Brooks Stough is a founding partner of Gunderson Dettmer who handles corporate and securities matters, with a focus on representing public companies.
Brooks Stough is a founding partner of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP. According to the firm, he has a wide range of experience handling complex corporate and securities matters and focuses on representing public companies. In addition to representing public companies and advising other attorneys at the firm on corporate, securities, and governance matters, the firm states that he represents nationally recognized underwriters, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, in public offerings.
The firm notes that his practice also includes representing private companies, advising in private and public merger and acquisition transactions, and representing venture capital funds in investor-side financings. He is described as a frequent speaker on corporate and securities law matters. Before co-founding Gunderson Dettmer, Stough was a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.
Stough holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Stanford University. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law, Securities Law, and Leveraged Buyout and Private Equity Law, and was named Best Lawyers' Venture Capital Lawyer of the Year for San Francisco in 2024. He is admitted to practice in California, with State Bar admission listed in 1980 and an active license.
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