Bio

Rakesh Gopalan is a trusted advisor to companies, ranging from established market leaders to emerging companies in the areas of securities and capital markets and technology transactions, including information technology and business process outsourcing. His securities practice includes representing both issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings (IPOs), public and private follow-on offerings, private investments in public equity (PIPE) transactions, and tender and exchange offers, as well as representing public companies on ongoing corporate governance and SEC disclosure and reporting requirements. Rakesh is experienced across industry sectors, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, technology services, financial services and fintech, energy, insurance, and consumer packaged goods. With broad experience across outsourcing and supply chain matters, Rakesh’s technology practice offers forward-thinking strategies to structure, negotiate, and execute transactions for both vendors and customers. He handles a wide range of transactions, including fintech, business process (BPO) information technology outsourcing (ITO) and insourcing, cloud-computing solutions, enterprise resource system (ERP) deployment and restructuring, large-scale technology platform implementations, software and software-as-a-service (SaaS), as well as other vendor and supply chain licensing and procurement matters. Rakesh is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in the practice of law, having co-founded the Charlotte Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and actively participates in several boards, committees, and initiatives to help build the pipeline of diverse candidates and remove barriers to success.