George Grellas
George Grellas & Associates
I am a startup business lawyer and litigator practicing in Silicon Valley as head of a 4-lawyer boutique firm, George Grellas & Associates.
We are business lawyers with a specialty in early-stage tech startups. Since 1984, we have helped small to medium-sized businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and executives - several thousand in all. We help form companies - fund them - sell or merge or acquire them - sell their assets - do their corporate work, employment work, contracts, leases, and standard terms - licensing, trademark, and IP work - founder and equity incentive structures - commercial deals of all types. We also do litigation: business - corporate - contract - fraud - trade secret - unfair competition - employment - business break-ups - commercial litigation generally.
I am a member of the State Bar-CEB Business and Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee and a frequent contributing author to CEB business publications (Counseling California Corporations (3rd edition 2008); Advising California Partnerships (3rd edition 2009); California Business Law Practitioner Journal)). CEB stands for Continuing Education of the Bar and has been a leading publisher of lawyer practitioner treatises in California, in affiliation with our State Bar, for over 70 years.
Years ago, in law school, I also served as Chief Technical Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review.
I recently served as President of the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association (2008-09) and have served on its board of directors for many years.
I also am a member of the Santa Clara Bar Association and the State Bar of California.
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude
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- University of California - Santa Cruz
- B.A. | History
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- Honors: Highest honors in history
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- Founder and Principal
- George Grellas & Associates
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- Senior attorney in Silicon Valley business and corporate law firm with a specialty in early-stage tech startups.
- Associate Attorney
- Bingham McCutchen
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- Litigation attorney in then-250 lawyer San Francisco firm representing primarily Fortune 500 companies in commercial litigation matters.
- Federal Law Clerk
- United States District Court (N.D. Cal.)
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- Federal judicial clerkship with the Honorable William A. Ingram.
- Advising California Partnerships
- CEB
- Counseling California Corporations
- CEB
- California Business Law Practitioner
- CEB
- NFA Adopts Digital Asset Commodities Standards and Requirements
- The SEC’s New Compensation “Clawback” Rules: What Directors and Officers Should Know
- Esteemed Scientists File Amicus Brief in Amgen v. Sanofi on Respondents' Behalf
- Real-World Litigation Impacts of Contract Clauses in Energy Contracts: Defining Change of Control Provisions Favorably
- Best Lawyers
- San Jose Magazine
- Best Lawyers
- San Jose Magazine
- Best Lawyers
- San Jose Magazine
- State Bar-CEB Business and Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee
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- Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association
- Member
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- Santa Clara County Bar Association
- Member
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- California State Bar # 83540
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- Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association
- President
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- Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association
- Director
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- California
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- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Intellectual Property
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Startup Business Law
- Website
- Website