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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
|September 16, 2026
Matter Venture Partners Closes $450 Million Fund II
Matter Venture Partners announces the formation of its second fund at $450 million.
Client News
|September 9, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz Leads Lightfield’s Series A
Andreessen Horowitz leads the Series A financing of Lightfield.
Client News
|September 9, 2026
Leyden Labs Acquires RIGImmune
RIGImmune announces its acquisition by Leyden Labs.
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Firm News
|September 15, 2026
Gunderson Dettmer Commemorates 2026 Hispanic Heritage Month
Gunderson Dettmer is proud to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, 2026.
Firm News
|August 27, 2026
As part of its annual list of Massachusetts legal industry leaders, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (MLW) has once again recognized Boston partner and Life Sciences practice group chair Tim Ehrlich as a Go To Lawyer in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice area.
Firm News
|August 18, 2026
PitchBook’s Q2 2026 Global League Tables once again recognize Gunderson Dettmer as the most active venture capital law firm worldwide.
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Public Ventures
|September 16, 2026
Glass Lewis Invites Comment on Proposed ‘Four Perspectives’ Proxy Voting Research Model
Beginning in September 2027, Glass Lewis plans to replace its single benchmark voting policy with four distinct proxy voting perspectives reflecting different investor philosophies and stewardship priorities. Its Benchmark Voting Policy Guidelines and Proxy Paper research reports will remain available for the 2027 proxy season, with updated guidelines to be published early next month
Public Ventures
|September 8, 2026
SEC Files Subpoena Enforcement Action Against ISS
“It is wholly appropriate for the SEC to look into whether ISS’s investment advice to clients on proxy voting is driven by a particular political or policy aim to the detriment of its clients’ interests. If it is, then ISS is breaching its fiduciary duties and violating the law.”
Public Ventures
|August 21, 2026
SEC to Decrease Filing Fee Rates 37% Effective October 1, 2026 (New Rate $87.00 per $1MM)
The SEC announced today that, effective October 1, 2026—the first day of the federal government’s fiscal year 2027—the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Commission will decrease to $87.00 per million dollars, from the current $138.10 per million dollars. The reduction is approximately 37%.