News & Insights

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....

Gunderson Dettmer Contributes Singapore Chapters to Legal 500 and Chambers Venture Capital Guides 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....

What's Next in Biotech: The Future of Biopharma Capital Markets and M&A: Trends, Risks, and Opportunities

The Nuts and Bolts of an IPO

Post-IPO: Engaging Shareholders with Confidence and Credibility

Hostie Raises $12 Million Series A Financing

Addi Announces $85 Million Series D

Gunderson Dettmer represented client Addi in its $85 million Series D financing led by Citius and co-led by BTG Pactual. Addi is a commerce and financial services platform in Colombia with more than 3 million customers and over 39,000 merchants, ranging from small businesses to large brands....

Gunderson Dettmer Represents Ona in Acquisition by OpenAI

Gunderson Dettmer Welcomes Kate Cusick as Chief Communications Officer

Chambers USA 2026 Guide Recognizes Multiple Gunderson Dettmer Practice Areas and Partners

Gunderson Dettmer Commemorates 2026 Pride Month - For All of Us

Gunderson Dettmer is proud to commemorate Pride Month in June 2026. This year, we join NYC Pride’s theme, “For All of Us.”...

‘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.”...

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...

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.”...