Matt Kirmayer

Matt Kirmayer is a partner in the corporate practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. According to the firm, he represents emerging technology companies and the investors who fund them across a range of industries, including software, educational technology, digital media, social media, artificial intelligence systems, robotics, and life sciences. The firm states that he often works with emerging companies as their outside general counsel, managing legal, financial, and operational issues from formation and angel and venture capital investment through exit.

The firm notes that Kirmayer has more than 30 years of experience in the emerging company and venture capital ecosystem, including numerous seed and venture financings for technology and life science companies, and significant experience guiding clients in securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He sits on the advisory board of Astia, a nonprofit that invests in companies with women in positions of equity and influence, mentors at the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship program, serves as a Sky Advisor at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator, and is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Integrated Innovation Institute. He joined Pillsbury in 2023 after serving as a partner at a San Francisco office of an international law firm.

Kirmayer holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, a J.D. from Rutgers University Law School, Newark, and a B.A. from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is admitted in California and New York; the State Bar of California lists his admission in 1993 with an active license.