Michael Umansky Bio

Michael Umansky is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) and Century City offices and is a Leader of the firm's Emerging Company/Venture Capital Team. Michael practices corporate law, with a special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions. His practice includes venture capital and private equity financings, merger and acquisition transactions, business formation and structuring, contractual matters and public securities offerings. He represents entrepreneurs, startup and established companies and venture capital and private equity investors in a variety of sectors, including software, internet, mobile, business services, cleantech, consumer goods and brands, life sciences, and food and beverage. Michael also has significant business experience, having served for almost three years as vice president and general counsel for Linspire, Inc., a developer of Linux-based operating system software and services (acquired by Xandros, Inc.), and Gizmo5 Technologies, Inc., a venture-backed internet telephony company (acquired by Google Inc.).