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Jill E. Fishbein
Partner, Carr & Ferrell LLP
Co-Chair, Corporate & Securities Practice Group
650-812-3476 •

Jill Fishbein is partner and co-chair of the Corporate Practice Group of Carr & Ferrell. Ms. Fishbein's practice focuses on corporate and securities work for both public and private companies, as well as venture capital firms and other financial institutions, with particular emphasis on the representation of growth technology and life science companies.

Ms. Fishbein has extensive experience with venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions and domestic and international joint ventures. She also is one of the firm's attorneys focusing on the developing areas of clean technologies. Ms. Fishbein has represented numerous companies in the fields of Internet, e-commerce, software, multimedia and data communications.

Prior to joining Carr & Ferrell, Ms. Fishbein worked in New York as a commercial banker in the areas of leveraged buyouts and project financings. Additionally, having practiced corporate law at leading Silicon Valley firms and served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of several publicly traded companies, Ms. Fishbein's corporate clients benefit from her extensive industry experience.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Represented Tropian, Inc. in its acquisition by Matsushita Electric Industrial/ Panasonic
• Represented investors in Altus Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Altus Biologics) private financings
• Represented Trend Micro, Inc. in many acquisitions
• Represented investors in Insider Guides (d/b/a MyYearbook) stock financing
• Representative corporate formations and related financing transactions for numerous internet, software and data communication companies

PRESENTATIONS

• Negotiating Venture Capital Term Sheets, Berkeley, California,
  March 4, 2009
• GreenVest 2007 Pre-Conference Workshop, San Francisco, California, June 25, 2007
• The Innovator's Engine ”Capitalizing on Clean Technology:  How To Create Value In The Hot Economy for Clean Technology,” Palo Alto, California, May 23, 2007
• 2004 High Tech Industries Conference for Financial Professionals, Trends in Financing, Sunnyvale, California, September 23, 2004
• American Conference Institute, Licensing and Other Intellectual Property Transactions, Presentation on Asset and Share Purchase Strategies, San Francisco, California, May 1995
• Fifth Annual Licensing Law Institute Focusing on Multimedia Licensing, Industry Panel, San Francisco, April 1994
• San Francisco Multimedia Development Group, "Legal Issues in Multimedia Publishing Agreements: Employment Issues and Channels of Distribution," San Francisco, California, November 1993
• Macromedia International user Conference, "The Art of the Deal: Legal Issues You May Not Have Thought of in Multimedia Negotiations," San Francisco, October 1993 and International Interactive Communications Society, Sunnyvale, California, August 1993
• 37th Congress of the Union International des Advocates, "Media and Technology, Their Global Relationship," San Francisco, California, August 1993