Bio

Rakesh Gopalan is a technology and securities lawyer, with extensive experience in complex technology and outsourcing deals, public securities issuances (including initial public offerings) and public company reporting requirements, private- and public-company mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate and transactional matters. He is currently co-chair of the firm’s fintech practice and formerly co-chair of the firm’s institutional banking practice. Rakesh is actively involved in diversity and inclusion efforts within the firm and the legal community, including through his work as a founding member and current board member of the Charlotte Asian Pacific American Bar Association and as chair of the firm’s Asian Lawyers Network. Rakesh formerly served as chair of the firm’s Asian Lawyers Network. The technology, vendor and supply chain transactions portion of his practice focuses on representing companies of all sizes and industries, both on the vendor and customer sides, with respect to transformative information technology (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) and insourcing, financial technologies (fintech), large-scale technology platform implementations, enterprise resource system (ERP) deployment and restructuring, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud-computing solutions, software and other licensing arrangements (including open-source components, shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements), and other vendor and supply chain procurement matters. Rakesh’s securities practice includes serving as a trusted advisor for public companies, advising on a broad range of securities matters. He represents both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, follow-on offerings of debt, equity, derivative and hybrid securities, private investments in public equity (PIPE) transactions and tender and exchange offers. He also advises public companies in connection with their periodic and annual reporting (10-Qs and 10-Ks), proxy statements, board and committee governance issues, and Section 16 and insider trading matters. Rakesh also has experience leading merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, strategic investments, and other transactions relating to the acquisition or disposition of businesses, assets and intellectual property.