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Insights
|June 29, 2026
Client Insight: Quarterly Employment Law Update – Spring 2026
The second quarter of 2026 marks a key inflection point for employment compliance, with new requirements already taking effect and additional obligations scheduled through 2027. This update highlights the developments most relevant to innovation-economy employers, including emerging AI regulations, a sweeping retroactive noncompete ban in Washington, expanding pay transparency mandates, new hiring and monitoring restrictions, evolving leave laws, and the practical steps employers can take now to prepare policies, templates, and HR processes.
Insights
|May 21, 2026
Gunderson Dettmer contributed the Singapore chapters of Legal 500’s Venture Capital Country Comparative Guides 2026 and Chambers and Partners Venture Capital Global Practice Guide 2026.
Insights
|May 4, 2026
Gunderson Dettmer Releases 2025 Venture Capital Report
Gunderson Dettmer has released its 2025 year‑in‑review venture capital report, analyzing data collected from the thousands of venture financing transactions in which the firm represented clients during 2025 and into the first quarter of 2026. The report examines market trends in deal count, valuation and transaction size across stages, with a spotlight on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping the venture ecosystem. Included throughout are insights from Gunderson Dettmer partners, who have negotiated more venture financings than any other law firm every year for the past decade, according to PitchBook.
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Events
|June 9, 2026
In this third installment of the series, Tim Ehrlich, chair of Gunderson Dettmer’s Life Sciences Group, interviewed Jefferies vice chairman of Global Healthcare Investment Banking Phil Ross
Events
|March 31, 2026
This session gives CFOs and GCs of late-stage private companies a practical, end-to-end IPO roadmap—from drafting the S-1 and structuring the offering to investor meetings, pricing, lockups, and the 2026 market outlook
Events
|March 17, 2026
Post-IPO: Engaging Shareholders with Confidence and Credibility
This webinar equips GCs and CFOs of public companies with strategies to navigate shareholder communications, from annual meetings to investor engagement, with insights from Gunderson Dettmer’s Alexa Belonick and Brett Pletcher
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Client News
|August 6, 2026
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Announces Oversubscribed $125 Million Private Placement Equity Financing
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals announces its securities purchase agreement with certain qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors for a private investment in public equity (“PIPE”) financing.
Client News
|August 6, 2026
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals to Acquire Alkeus Pharmaceuticals
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals announces its definitive agreement to acquire Alkeus Pharmaceuticals, a privately held retinal disease-focused biotechnology company developing gildeuretinol (ALK-001), an investigational once-daily oral therapy for Stargardt disease.
Client News
|August 3, 2026
Maximum Emerges From Stealth With $30 Million Seed Financing
Maximum announces its emergence from stealth mode and concurrent $30 million seed financing.
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Firm News
|August 3, 2026
India Business Law Journal Recognizes Gunderson Dettmer for Excellence in India-Related Work
Gunderson Dettmer has been recognized as a Significant Player in the 2026 edition of India Business Law Journal’s report on the world’s leading international law firms advising on India-related matters.
Firm News
|July 27, 2026
Benjamin Teo Recognized in Asian Legal Business Singapore Rising Stars 2026
Gunderson Dettmer of counsel Benjamin Teo has been named to Asian Legal Business’s Singapore Rising Stars 2026.
Firm News
|June 30, 2026
Gunderson Dettmer Welcomes Kate Cusick as Chief Communications Officer
Gunderson Dettmer welcomes Kate Cusick as the firm’s first Chief Communications Officer.
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Public Ventures
|June 1, 2026
‘Dramatic Overreach’ of Authority: SEC Proposes to Rescind Climate Disclosure Rules
“We must re-examine the costs, burdens, and benefits of disclosure mandates to make becoming and remaining a public company more attractive again. SEC disclosure obligations should comply with the Commission’s statutory authority, be guided by materiality as the North Star, avoid the practical effect of dictating corporate behavior, and be imposed only when the expected benefits justify the likely costs and burdens.”
Public Ventures
|May 27, 2026
SEC Chair Announces IPO Modernization Initiative
Public input invited through July 27, 2026 on ways to improve the process and method of becoming a public company
Public Ventures
|May 6, 2026
SEC Proposes Optional Semiannual Financial Reporting Framework for Public Companies
“Today’s proposal is just the first step of the larger, comprehensive effort to review and reshape the current SEC rules governing public companies with respect to their ongoing reporting obligations and their ability to raise capital in the public markets. Over the next few months, I expect that the Commission will be considering a series of proposals that, if adopted, will not only redefine what it means to be a public company, but will make being public attractive again.”