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T. Hale Boggs

T. Hale Boggs

Partner
Corporate & Finance
Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
Capital Markets
hboggs@manatt.com

  • Los Angeles
    Direct: 310.312.4269
    General: 310.312.4000
    Fax: 310.312.4224
    San Francisco
    Direct: 415.291.7405
    General: 415.291.7400
    Fax: 415.291.7474

Professional Experience

Mr. Boggs splits his time between the firm’s Los Angeles and northern California offices.  He founded the Palo Alto office in 1998 and works principally out of the firm’s San Francisco office, which he helped to establish in 2007.  Mr. Boggs chairs the firm’s nationwide Business Development Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee and Executive Committee.

Mr. Boggs’ practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, including venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, public and private securities offerings, and joint ventures.

Mr. Boggs’ expertise includes venture capital and other equity and debt financings, equity compensation matters, SEC reporting and disclosure, intellectual property licensing, complex corporate partnering transactions and corporate governance.  He also represents venture capital firms in fund formation and counseling matters.  He frequently assists clients in structuring creative arrangements to acquire, develop, protect and distribute technologies and products both domestically and internationally.

Mr. Boggs also represents a wide variety of financial institutions and financial services companies, including commercial banks and bank holding companies, and consumer and commercial finance companies.


Education

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, J.D., 1986. 
Member, UCLA Law Review.

Stanford University, B.A., with honors, 1983.


Memberships & Activities

Admitted to practice in California.

Member, California State Bar Association, Century City Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Member of the Board of Directors of BizWorld Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on teaching business fundamentals and entrepreneurship to school-children throughout the United States and internationally.


Honors & Awards

The Best Lawyers in America, 2000-2011.

Named as one of the "500 New Stars, New Worlds" in the Lawdragon guide.


Publications

Co-Author, "Deal With It," Daily Journal, July 18, 2008.