Stephanie S. Brecher

Ms. Brecher is a partner in the Corporate practice group in the firm's Orange County and Silicon Valley offices and co-leader of the Climate Change and Clean Technology Team.

Areas of Practice

Ms. Brecher has extensive experience in corporate transactional matters, representing venture capital funds in both early and later-stage equity and debt financing of emerging technology companies and negotiation of exit transaction documentation, and private equity funds, public and private companies with respect to mergers and acquisitions and control transactions, equity and debt financing transactions, commercial agreements, joint ventures and other strategic relationships. She also serves as general counsel to emerging growth companies and their management and boards of directors, advising them on day-to-day legal matters, corporate governance issues and significant transactions.  

Ms. Brecher previously served as senior counsel to Nortel Networks, where she handled acquisitions of private and public companies totaling more than $10 billion in transaction value, divestitures of Nortel businesses, international and domestic joint ventures and general corporate matters.  She also acted as lead counsel for Nortel’s Corporate Business Development Group, structuring and negotiating numerous equity investments for the company in the U.S. and abroad.  She was also formerly corporate counsel to MCI. 

After graduating from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was Note & Comment editor of the California Law Review, Ms. Brecher served as law clerk to the Hon. Richard A. Gadbois, United States District Judge for the Central District of California. 

Education

• J.D., University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), 1993
• M.S., The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1990
• B.A., Princeton University, 1989, cum laude

Admissions

• California
• New York
• District of Columbia

Representative Matters

• Represented NGEN Partners in numerous equity financings of cleantech companies, related transactions and fund matters.
  
• Represented New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in the sale of InsideVenture to SecondMarket
  
• Represented LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. (Korea) in its joint venture with Accton Technology Corporation (Taiwan) and concurrent investment in joint venture company Edgecore Networks, Inc.
  
• Represented EIQ Energy, Inc., a maker of parallel solar technology, in its Series A1 financing.
  
• Represented Energy and Power Solutions, Inc., a leader in energy intelligence, in a $30 million Series B financing.
  
• Represented New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in numerous equity financings.
  
• Represented LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. (Korea) in its acquisition of Novera Optics.
  
• Former Acting Chief Legal Counsel to Pacific Coast Recycling.
  
• Represented Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (Japan) and Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.) Inc. in the sale of Pacific Coast Recycling.
  
• Represented Platinum Equity in its acquisition of Covad Communications Group.
  
• Represented Western Digital in its acquisition of Senvid.
  
• Represented Nortel Networks in numerous acquisitions, divestitures and investments totaling more than $10 billion in transaction value.
  
• Represented MCI in its Latin American joint venture with Telefonica.

Honors

• Legal 500, 2010

Memberships

• Executive Committee, Orange County Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California
• Member, Orange County Venture Group

Articles

• Consolidation in Cleantech, The Daily Deal, April 3, 2009

• "Looking for the Exit: Preparing for the Sale of Your Business," Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal (Fall 2007)

Climate Change and Clean Technology Law Blog Articles

• "EU's Proposals for Global Pact on Climate Change at Copenhagen", September 4, 2009
• "Taking Advantage of Public Financing: Stimulus Funding and Beyond", August 3, 2009