Lawyers

FRANÇOIS G. LAUGIER

Partner — Redwood City

EXPERIENCE

Francois is a corporate transactions and international attorney who specializes in technology-related transactions while still advising clients in commercial litigation and dispute resolution.

Based in Silicon Valley for the past 20 years, Francois helps entrepreneurs, investors and companies build, finance and sell their US or foreign operations, and get past every legal challenge they encounter along the way. He has handled numerous cross-border acquisitions and equity financings and brought many companies from their inception to successful exits for founders and investors alike. Francois advises companies in all aspects of corporate law, including entity formation, equity financing, technology licensing, corporate structure inversions ("flips"), mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, stock options, employment, commercial leasing, intellectual property protection, negotiation and drafting of virtually any business contract.

François is admitted to practice in California , Washington D.C., and in the European Union. He is a partner, and an elected director of RMKB, a 120-attorney law firm with offices in California (4) New York (1) Boston (1) and affiliates in Paris and Hong-Kong. Francois was recently noted by the San Francisco Bay Area Lawyer Magazine as one of the "Top lawyers in the Bay Area" for mergers and acquisitions.  An advisor to the board of several technology companies, François is a guest lecturer on the topic of entrepreneurship, technology and international law.  He is also the local President of the foreign trade advisors ("Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur") to the French Ministry of Economy and Finances.

Francois graduated from Université de Montpellier and University of San Diego law schools.