JULIAN ZEGELMAN
Julian Zegelman
Office: 1 (408) 891-7991
Email: julian@
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Julian is a partner at Grayver Law Group resident in the Los Angeles office. Julian’s practice focuses on assisting clients with their diverse business needs, including entity formation, venture capital fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, venture capital transactions, private securities offerings, reverse mergers and alternative public offerings, equity and debt financing, corporate governance and compliance. Since 2015, a big portion of Julian’s practice is dedicated to representing clients in the digital assets and blockchain space, such as cryptocurrency miners, exchanges, crypto hedge funds, protocols, and issuers of digital assets.
Earlier in his career, Julian practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley for over a decade. He has previously served as general counsel at a number of venture capital funds and venture-backed technology companies.
Julian is fluent in Russian and Hebrew. He received a B.
ETHAN FEFFER
Ethan Feffer
Email: ethan@grayverlaw.com
Ethan Feffer serves as “of counsel” to the firm.
Ethan has over 30 years of legal and business experience in a diverse range of industries. Prior to joining the firm, Ethan had practiced at two prominent international law firms, Pillsbury Winthrop and Sheppard Mullin, where he was elected as an equity partner. He represented public and private companies in M&A and financing transactions, as well as day-to-day legal matters, and venture capital firms in their investment activities. Since 2014, Ethan has served as the general counsel to www.surefire.com, a 40-year-old California-based company that manufactures patented products for specialized military and police applications.
Ethan has extensive experience in various business and technology transactions, IPOs, SPACs, commercial agreements, corporate governance, and private equity. Over his career, Ethan has handled over $10 billion in corporate acquisitions, public offerings, and private equity transactions.
Ethan received a B.A. degree in Political Economy and Russian from University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctorate degree from University of California, Hastings. Between college and law school, Ethan worked at Harvard University’s Russian Research Center as a researcher to the adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
Ethan was selected to “Law Dragon 3000,” a client survey that identified the top 1% of U.S. lawyers. He co-authored the chapter in California’s Continuing Education of the Bar practitioner’s guide entitled, How to Draft and Negotiate Private Equity and Venture Capital Transactions
Digital Media & Entertainment
Practice Areas
Digital Media & Entertainment
Grayver Law represents developers, distributors, and licensees in negotiating deals with publishers, platforms, advertisers, and networks.
Our clients include some of the industry’s top mobile game publishers and developers, as well as mobile and social gaming startups. We can help you with a wide range of platforms, applications, and technologies offering practical, business-focused advice to help you develop relationships and secure favorable agreements.
Our Digital Media & Entertainment services include:
- Game and App Development
- Technological Implementation
- Game Publishing and Distribution
- Advertising and Monetization Policies
- Strategic Agreements and Licensing
- Brand and Product Placements
- Privacy, COPPA, GDPR, and Regulatory Issues
- IP and Trade Secret Protection and Strategy
- Inbound and Outbound Licensing and Distribution Strategy and Development
- SDKs and TDKs
- Software Licensing
- Product Development and Collaboration
- Content and Technology Integration
- Pre-publication review of product and related websites and social media presence
Thomas McNiff
Thomas McNiff
Thomas J. McNiff is of counsel to the firm. Tom has been an attorney and member of the New York bar focusing on transactional and commercial matters for over 25 years. Tom has advised clients as both external and general counsel on licensing, acquisitions, intellectual property, leasing, e-commerce, corporate structuring, corporate compliance, data privacy, and HR/employee management.
As a former in-house legal counsel at Liz Clairborne, the Maxima Apparel Corp., and The Donna Karan Company, Tom brings a valuable perspective on balancing the risk of a hypothetical legal challenge to the real risk of impeding a business transaction, exemplifying the firm’s motto: never to shy away from shielding our clients from legal risk, but always remembering to do so in a pragmatic way.
Apart from his law practice, Tom works as the head coach of the women’s rugby club at the University of Rhode Island and volunteers as an EMT with the Jamestown Fire Department.
Tom received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law.
Alex Volchegursky
Alex Volchegursky
Email: alex@grayverlaw.com
Alex is of counsel in the firm’s corporate transactional group.
Alexander brings over two decades of experience working extensively with a broad range of early-stage and emerging growth companies, as well as with individual investors in such businesses. Alexander provides the firm’s clients with business transactional services in the field of corporate and business formation, jurisdictional and entity choice, corporate finance and corporate finance transactions, M&A and asset purchases, venture capital equity and debt financings, commercial and technology transactions, securities law compliance, trade-name, and brand protection, and commercial leasing.
Alexander received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Investment Fund Services
Practice Areas
Investment Fund Services
We work with seed and Series A-stage venture capital funds, angel clubs, fund-of-funds, and syndicate SPVs (including both series LLCs and stand-alone) in connection with formation and operations, including structuring and conducting legal due diligence in their investments in startup companies. While we have represented venture capital funds with up to $500 million under management, our sweet spot is emerging fund managers with fund sizes under $100 million.
Our professionals have represented such funds as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, Trident Capital, China Everbright Fund, Pangaea Ventures, Altair.VC, Leta Capital, Runa Capital, Cabra Capital, TMT Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Vibranium Venture Capital, Troika Dialog Group, Investment & Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan, VTB Capital, RBV Capital, Foresight Ventures, Prostor Capital, SBT Ventures (aka Fort Ross Ventures), Quantum Wave Fund, Finsight Ventures, Pulsar Venture Capital, Volga Venture Partners, Formula VC, Genezis Capital, Projector Ventures, TEC Ventures, Viaduct Ventures, GVA Capital, Mindrock Capital, Prospective Technologies Capital, I am The Fund, Secret Ventures, Almak Capital, and others.
A significant part of our practice involves the representation of accelerators. We work with our accelerator clients to lower their legal spend by creating customized workflows and legal processes that drive efficiencies into their scalable model. Accelerators are capital constrained, but they do not need to be constrained by their legal needs. Among our accelerator clients, we are proud to count Foundersboost, Starta Ventures, Pulsar Ventures, Softlanding Vibranium VC, Startup.Network and over the years we have established close working relationships with such prominent accelerators as YCombinator, 500 Startups, and Alchemist.
As part of our investment fund practice we also regularly represent institutional investors (LPs) in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, including conducting due diligence, reviewing limited partnership agreements, and negotiating side letters.
Our attorneys’ recent fund structuring efforts include:
• $200 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)
• $60 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)
• $150 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)
• $40 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)
• $100 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)
• $50 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)
• $25 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)
• Numerous Seed Funds <$10M (representing GP)
ARTEM DOLUKHANYAN
Artem Dolukhanyan
Office: +1.310.372.5770
Email: artem@grayverlaw.com
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Artem Dolukhanyan is a partner in the corporate transactional group. His practice concentrates on representing clients in connection with corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital, and corporate finance. He works with companies through all stages of their development, including corporate formation, debt and equity financings, securities compliance, and advises clients on general corporate matters. Artem advised clients across industries including technology, media and entertainment, videogames, and consumer products.
Prior to joining the firm, Artem was a corporate associate at a prominent boutique corporate law firm in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the corporate transactional practice group.
Artem received his law degree from Moscow State Law University in 2009 and his LL.M degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, in 2018. Artem also holds a graduate degree in finance management from Moscow State Finance University. He is a member of the California State Bar since 2018.
Pitch Coaching
STARTUP CONSULTING SERVICES
Pitch Coaching
Have you ever walked out of a pitch thinking: “That could have gone so much better”? Many people make the same mistakes in the pitch room that cost them the chance to secure funding, inspire stakeholders or sign new clients. Things go wrong because your message is not clear, and you fail to stand out.
Our mission is to get you to learn to tell your stories in just a few words (be concise), use simple words that everyone can relate to (be clear) and articulate why your audience should care (be different).
If you have a big investor meeting coming up, a sales pitch or an important business presentation, we offer face-to-face coaching or virtual coaching via our private video-chat room.
Depending on your goals and challenges, we will typically work on refining your story, structuring your messages, simplifying your slide deck, enhancing your delivery style and sharpening your answers to tough questions. We will fine tune and practice until it is just right!
Technical Writing & Editing Services
STARTUP CONSULTING SERVICES
Technical Writing & Editing Services
Our technical writing and editing services help clients create new, powerful documentation + strengthen and organize existing materials to help achieve corporate goals such as:
• Improving professional communication
• Meeting compliance regulations
• Updating policies and procedures
• Providing employee training
• Streamlining processes
• Having clear, concise guides for products and services
• Distributing vital content to large audiences
Our experienced native English speaking writers come from a variety of scientific, engineering, and journalistic backgrounds, with degrees from the leading US universities. They are well qualified to assume publication responsibilities in a variety of fields.
We can write and edit highly technical or confusing information so that it will be clearly and properly understood by the target audience. The content and message is retained while we make the document more readable for a wider audience.
Our services are not limited to documents that are technical in nature. We also help prepare content for company newsletters, investor presentations, and white papers. In addition to technical and professional writing, editing, and proofing, our services encompass all aspects of technical documentation preparation. The final product is delivered in electronic, printed and/or online formats in the form of high quality:
• User and installation manuals
• Technical papers and reports
• Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Work Order Optimization
• Job Aids
• Training materials
• Product and software documentation
• Policies and procedures, and many more