News & Insights

A recent order by the Securities and Exchange Commission reduced the minimum initial offering period for certain tender offers for equity securities from 20 business days to 10 business days, easing one of the most cited inconveniences in conducting a tender offer. The shorter timeline may only be used for tender offers for private company stock when the offer is made by the issuer of the securities (i.e., the company itself) or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the issuer, which may increase the appeal of structuring large liquidity programs as company-led (rather than third party-led). This timing advantage will likely push more private company liquidity events into issuer-structured programs.

Starting January 1, 2026, California employers will face expanded pay transparency and pay equity requirements, including stricter job posting disclosures and mandatory inclusion of equity compensation in pay equity analyses.

Gunderson Dettmer releases a guide on Splitting the Pie: How Savvy Founders Divide Ownership and Navigate Other Founder Equity Decisions

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

Watch the Exclusive Premiere on What’s Next in Biotech with Gunderson Partner and Chair of Life Sciences Tim Ehrlich and Venrock Managing Partner Bryan Roberts

Gunderson Dettmer, in partnership with Alpha Edison, announces the debut of live pitch competition, PitchLive.LA, taking place during LA Tech Week

Caplight Technologies announces its $16 million Series A financing. 

Noro-Moseley Partners, a growth equity firm backing leading entrepreneurs in B2B software, led the growth funding round of EAIGLE.

Osanni Bio announces its $190 million Series B financing.

Richard Chang, Corporate Partner and Head of Gunderson Dettmer’s Beijing office, has once again been named to China Business Law Journal’s A-List as China’s 2025-26 Growth Drivers Elite International Lawyers.

Gunderson Dettmer leads PitchBook’s Global League Tables for the third consecutive quarter in 2025, reinforcing the firm’s position as the world’s most active law firm in venture capital and emerging company transactions.

PitchBook Global League Tables recognizes Gunderson Dettmer as the Most Active Venture Capital Law Firm in Latin America in H1 2025, handling 23 deals valued at $1.45 billion for the most promising startups in the region

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill No. 219 (SB-219), an amended, consolidated version of the state’s landmark greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate risk disclosure laws (SB-253 and SB-261, respectively) enacted in October 2023.

Extension of Traditional IPO Investor Protections to SPAC Transactions Will Significantly Increase Costs, Complexity and Potential Liability for Market Participants Throughout the SPAC Lifecycle