Bruce Mann is a senior partner in the firm’s Corporate Group. He has been both a lawyer and an investment banker, focusing on venture capital, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Between 1999 and 2003, he also served as Senior Managing Director of WR Hambrecht + Co., and from 1983 until 1987, was a Managing Director of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, in charge of Mergers and Acquisitions and Investment Banking, prior to which he was with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where he was the partner in charge of that firm’s securities group at the time he left to become an investment banker.

From the beginning of Silicon Valley, Bruce played an important role in its growth, forming major companies such as Intel and Tandem Computers and advising leading venture capitalists including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Arthur Rock, Bessemer Securities, and Weiss, Peck & Greer (now Lightspeed Venture Partners). He has represented underwriters such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, CIBC World Markets, Thomas Weisel Partners, Cowen and Company, JMP Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and WR Hambrecht + Co. in over one hundred public offerings by high tech and biotech companies.

Bruce has served as chairman of the ABA Business Section’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, its Venture Capital and Private Equity Committee, and its Committee on International Technical Assistance; as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility; a member of the New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee; as a governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD); as a member of the Task Force on Capital Formation for the White House Conference on Small Business; as a consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission; as legal advisor to the Czech Ministry of Privatization; and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has also served as a member of the Council of the ABA Business Law Section, and the Advisory Board for the Northwestern University Securities Regulation Institute. He is currently Chairman of the Investment Strategies Committee of the ABA Senior Lawyers Division. He has written and lectured extensively on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and other securities law matters and is co-author of California Corporate Practice and Forms (Data Trace Publishing Co., 1999).

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Bruce was raised in Racine, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration (Phi Beta Kappa) and his law degree from the University of Wisconsin. He was an editor of the University of Wisconsin Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif, the national law school honor society. In 2008, the San Francisco Magazine named Mr. Mann one of Northern California’s “Super Lawyers” in Securities and Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance and Compliance. The 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America has selected him for Corporate and Securities Law. In addition, Mr. Mann was highly recommended by the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook for Corporate/Mergers & Acquisition Law (2007-2008) and in the 2007 Legal 500 Mergers & Acquisition rankings. The 2007/2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, also recognized Mr. Mann for his work in Mergers and Acquisitions Law.