Mike Phillips has been a business lawyer in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, representing public and private companies in all phases of their capital raising, commercial relationships and liquidity transactions. He specializes in the financing and structuring of start-up and other emerging businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and complex strategic partnerships and joint ventures, with emphasis on technology licensing.
Mr. Phillips served as Senior Vice-President, Business Development and General Counsel, at JDS Uniphase from 1998 to 2003 where he oversaw in excess of $50 billion of acquisitions and other strategic relationships.