O’Melveny

In incubators, co-working spaces, labs, and college dorms around the world are creative individuals bringing forth new products to address intractable problems and commercial opportunities—from emissions reduction to space exploration, personalized health, decentralized financial services, universal access to education, and artificial intelligence. O’Melveny’s Emerging Companies team provides efficient, practical, full-cycle support to these innovators and the risk-takers who back them.

Unlike many international law firms, we prefer to work with entrepreneurs from the earliest stages. Our value proposition is our unusual combination of cost-efficient “true” Silicon Valley start-up lawyers and the transactional, regulatory, and litigation firepower of an elite international firm. This scalable platform means we are able to nurture innovative companies along the complete corporate growth cycle, from founding and seed financing through growth, liquidity, and beyond.

And we have the track record to prove it: we have closed venture capital financings at a one-per-business-day pace over the last 12 years. In the last three years, we have helped more than 150 venture-backed companies achieve liquidity via sale, IPO, or SPAC transaction, generating more than US$50 billion in proceeds for founders and investors. And in 2022 alone, we worked with more than 40 “unicorns” with valuations exceeding US$1 billion—including a dozen newly minted in the last 12 months.