ALLAN LITOVSKY
ALLAN LITOVSKY
Office: +1.310.372.5770
Email: allan@grayverlaw.com
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Grayver Law Group is proud to be affiliated with one of the top Intellectual Property lawyers in California. Allan Litovsky offers services to our clients in a variety of matters related to intellectual property prosecution, counseling and litigation.
As a litigator, Mr. Litovsky serves as lead counsel in commercial litigation and arbitration matters, including patent, domain name, trade secret, copyright, unfair competition, anti-counterfeiting and contract disputes. He has handled numerous disputes for businesses ranging from start-ups to international corporations in state and Federal courts across the U.S., in the International Trade Commission as well as in various arbitration forums (AAA, ICC, etc.), both domestic and international.
As a registered patent attorney, Mr. Litovsky counsels clients in the fields of patents, trade secrets, trademarks (including domain names), and copyrights, as well as computer and Internet law and assist clients with the strategic development of their patent portfolios. In addition to his litigation and patent counseling practices, Mr. Litovsky handles technology-related transactions, including joint venture agreements, research agreements, license, and outsourcing arrangements. As an independent arbitrator and mediator, he has been retained in a variety of commercial disputes in the fields of patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, and contracts. He has been appointed and, for the past six years, has served as an approved mediator on the Mediation Panel for the Federal Court for the Central District of California.
Mr. Litovsky has handled matters in a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, biologics, optics, semiconductor circuitry and manufacturing processes, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, medical devices, software, satellite control systems, digital satellite television systems, audio and video processing and equipment, automotive technologies, and avionics.
Prior to opening his own practice, Mr. Litovsky served as of counsel and partner at the leading global law firms, such as Latham and Watkins and Greenberg Traurig.
Allan Litovsky received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Moscow Mining Academy and a law degree from the Arizona State University School of Law.
BENJAMIN DAVIDSON
BENJAMIN DAVIDSON
Office: +1.310.372.5770
Email: benjamin@grayverlaw.com
Benjamin Davidson is of counsel in the firm’s employment counseling and litigation group. Ben supports our clients’ commercial and employment litigation needs. In fact, our relationship with Ben goes all the way to the early 90s when Leonard and Ben shared a dorm room at UCLA.
Ben Davidson was born and raised in California. He is a graduate of UCLA and Cornell Law School. At Cornell, he made the Dean’s List, was selected as an Honor’s Fellow for Cornell’s Legal Writing program for two years, became Managing Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal, and he was the first in his class to have a Note selected for publication by the Cornell International Law Journal. A fluent Spanish speaker who lived and worked in Costa Rica before attending law school, Ben also served as Academic Chair in Cornell’s chapter of LALSA (Latin American Law Students Association) and represented an asylum applicant in Cornell’s Asylum and Convention Against Torture Clinic.
Following graduation in 2005, Ben returned to California and worked as a litigation attorney for the preeminent national law firms of Proskauer Rose LLP and Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. During his career, Ben has handled a wide variety of claims arising in the workplace, including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, pregnancy leave, breach of contract, and wage and hour claims, representing both employers and employees. He has frequently also represented high-level executives and public officers in severance negotiations, obtaining six- and seven-figure settlements on behalf of his clients.
Apart from his litigation practice, Benjamin provides advice and counseling to employers to ensure compliance with California and Federal employment laws and regulations. He is intimately familiar with California wage and hour laws and has a knack for implementing policies that protect employers from frivolous litigation with minimal interruption to the business.
Benjamin Davidson is licensed and admitted to practice in all courts in the State of California and in the Eastern, Northern, Central, and Southern District Courts of California. He has served as a member of the executive committee of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was named a “Rising Star” by Superlawyers Magazine.
Benjamin is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Hebrew.
Employment Counseling & Litigation
Practice Areas
Employment Counseling & Litigation
We understand the complex nature of employment and labor law disputes. These issues can significantly impact your business.
Our lawyers represent employers throughout California in all types of employment law matters. We provide personal attention and tailor advice to help you protect yourself from legal disputes and lawsuits. Our services include preventative counseling and litigation involving:
• Employee, Contractor, and Executive Agreements
• Termination and Misconduct
• Compensation
• Stock Plans and Other Equity Incentives
• Employee Handbooks
• Onboarding and Separation
• Harassment and Discrimination Prevention
• Independent Contractor Classification
• Non-Competes
• IP and Trade Secrets Ownership
Our clients come from a variety of industries, including medical practices, real estate development, resort operation, cities, counties, nonprofits, restaurants, local manufacturing and other service industries.
Our litigation background helps us provide effective and responsible representation and counseling to assist businesses in preventing and/or resolving costly lawsuits. We are proud of our ability to navigate difficult situations on behalf of our clients.
Our attorneys have the talent and ability to defend employers aggressively and efficiently in all types of litigation and arbitration. We are known for being able to favorably resolve cases at the early stages and obtain favorable results for our clients in all types of employment law disputes.
Importantly, in providing an effective and concise defense, we send a message to future litigants to find another defendant. We take pride in our employment-client relationships which have spanned decades.
Our proactive consultative approach helps us eliminate employment disputes and legal matters affecting businesses. We are well-versed in all aspects of defending companies against labor law violations.
We encourage you to contact us before making any termination decisions that will impact an employee of a protected class. We are able to anticipate and prevent problems before they arise, saving you time and money. We find that this approach significantly minimizes the risk of litigation and administrative claims against our clients.
International Business Services
Practice Areas
International Business Services
While our main offices are in California, we have a widely respected niche practice counseling international businesses in all areas of their business activities internationally and in the United States.
The firm’s attorneys can provide strategic solutions and legal advice involving all aspects of your business. This includes the following international business services:
• Mergers and acquisitions
• International joint ventures and partnerships
• Real estate purchase, development and sale transactions
• Corporate restructuring
• Technology licensing
• Computer software distribution and licensing
• Distributorship agreements
• Business dispute resolutions
Technology and Commercial Transactions
Practice Areas
Technology and Commercial Transactions
We represent established and startup companies in a wide variety of strategic technology transactions, including agreements to develop, acquire, license, test, market, distribute, brand, and protect technology and related intellectual property rights; including:
Commercial Transactions and Agreements
• Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting complex intellectual property, corporate and commercial agreements, or other transactions
• Technology and patent licensing agreements
• Joint development agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Cross-border technology agreements
• Distribution Agreements
• Consulting agreements
• Software development agreements
• Software licensing / maintenance agreements
• SaaS and Cloud licensing agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• OEM agreements
• Co-branding/brand licensing
• Beta/Demo/Evaluation agreements
• Sponsored Research & Development Agreements
• Source code escrow agreements
• Patent and Trademark prosecution and litigation
Privacy and Data Security
• Website terms of service and privacy policies
• Business associate agreements and data processing addenda
• Privacy compliance, including guidance on CCPA and GDPR
• Review and negotiation of privacy and security terms in various commercial contracts
Venture Capital
Practice Areas
Venture Capital
We represent startup companies, angel investors, and venture capital funds in venture capital financings. Our attorneys have negotiated and closed financing deals on behalf of several hundred clients, with deal size ranging from $100,000 to over $20 million.
Our attorneys’ representative matters include:
• $20 million investment in a Silicon Valley based autonomous driving company (represented investors)
• $12 million investment in a New York internet marketing company (represented the company)
• $5 million investment in a Los Angeles based Virtual Reality company (represented the company)
• $3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based anti-virus protection company (represented investors)
• $4 million investment in a Southern California based substance detection company (represented investors)
• $4 million investment in a Silicon Valley based medical imaging company (represented investors)
• $4 million investment in an Ireland based 3D visual communications company (represented investors)
• $2 million investment in a Switzerland based 3D content provider (represented the company)
• $2 million investment in a San Diego based 3D technology company (represented the company)
• $2 million investment in a New York based cloud computing service (represented investors)
• $3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based internet server technology (represented the company)
• $1 million investment in Silicon Valley based cloud computing solutions provider (represented investors)
• $2 million investment in /Luxembourg e-commerce service (represented investors)
Startup Companies
Practice Areas
Startup Companies
We represent startup companies through every stage of their lifecycle. We currently represent over one hundred technology startups and have counseled hundreds of entrepreneurs and startup companies on matters including incorporation, corporate governance, employment issues, commercial contracts, and seed and venture capital financings. We have represented companies participating in the leading startup accelerators, such as YCombinator, 500 Startups, Techstars, Alchemist. Our attorneys serve as mentors at Starta Capital Accelerator, Pulsar Accelerator, Startup.Network, and Softlanding Vibranium VC. Our attorneys are skilled at counseling on the basics (e.g., formation, financings, equity incentive arrangements, labor and employment, governance issues, and intellectual property protection).
As a result of our experience in the startup community, we understand the practical business needs of early-stage companies. We act as outside general counsel to many startups and emerging growth clients, including participating in board-level discussions and serving as an extension of the management team. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide cost-efficient and practical solutions with the flexible terms that startup companies desire.
We maintain an extensive network of service providers and investors in several jurisdictions and can often act as a one-stop shop for just about every need of an emerging company.
Contact Us
Contact Us
Silicon Valley Office:
2880 Lakeside Drive, Suite 135
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Los Angeles Office:
111 Pier Avenue, Suite 100
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
New York City Office:
305 Broadway, Suite 716
New York, NY 10007
Phone: 310.372.5770 / 212.323.7441
Email: info@grayverlaw.com
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Representative Matters
Recent Venture Capital Transactions
VC Fund Structuring and Due Diligence
$500 million Silicon Valley/Asia PE Fund (representing LPs)
$400 million Silicon Valley PE Fund (representing LPs)
$350 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing LPs)
$200 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)
$60 million United Kingdom VC Fund (representing GP)
$135 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)
$40 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)
$120 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)
$100 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)
$10 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)
$40 million Silicon Valley VC Fund (representing GP)
Numerous Seed Funds (representing GP)
VC Financing Transactions
$6 million investment in Switzerland based bio-pharmaceutical company (represented investors)
$14 million investment in New York based co-working provider (represented investors)
$12 million investment in New York based internet marketing company (represented the company)
$20 million investment in Silicon Valley based autonomous driving company (represented the investors)
$10 million investment in a Silicon Valley based 3D solutions provider (represented the company)
$5 million investment in Silicon Valley based medical device company (represented the company)
$4 million investment in a Southern California based manufacturer of 3D monitors (represented investors)
$5 million investment in a Silicon Valley based social network company (represented investors)
$3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based anti-virus protection company (represented investors)
$4 million investment in a Southern California based substance detection company (represented investors)
$4 million investment in a Silicon Valley based medical imaging company (represented investors)
$4 million investment in an Ireland based 3D visual communications company (represented investors)
$2 million investment in a Russia based 3D content provider (represented the company)
$2 million investment in a San Diego based 3D technology company (represented the company)
$10 million investment in a Silicon Valley based security provider (represented the company)
$1 million investment in a New York based cloud computing service (represented investors)
$3 million investment in a Silicon Valley based internet server technology (represented the company)
$1 million investment in Silicon Valley based cloud computing solutions provider (represented investors)
$2 million investment in /Luxembourg e-commerce service (represented investors)
Numerous Seed (under $1M) financings
International Business Litigation
Successful defense of a civil RICO action brought against a leading Russian consulting firm.
Successful settlement of a civil RICO lawsuit against a leading Russian oil company.
Successful defense of a lawsuit against a US subsidiary of a large Japanese defense contractor.
Successful prosecution of a lawsuit against former executives of a large Japanese technology company, leading to a $26 million judgment.
Successful motion to compel arbitration involving a large public Japanese pharmaceutical company.
A number of successful prosecutions/resolutions of breach of fiduciary duty claims by the investors against a portfolio company’s executives.
INNA GELFGAT
Inna Gelfgat
Email: inna@grayverlaw.com
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Inna Gelfgat represents privately and publicly held companies in a wide range of corporate matters, including domestic (US and Russian) and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, equity investments, securities offerings, capital markets transactions, restructurings, governance issues, and general corporate law. She has experience across a wide variety of industries, including software technology, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, real estate, food and beverage, media and entertainment, etc.
Prior to joining the firm, Inna worked as a lawyer in the Moscow office of a major international law firm and the New York office of a major US law firm. Previously, she worked, as a legal consultant in one of the top four biggest international consulting and audit firms.
Inna received her law degree, magna cum laude, from the Law Department of Moscow State University in 2009 and her LL.M. degree from the New York University School of Law in 2016.
Inna is a member of the New York Bar since 2017 and a member of the California Bar since 2024.