Robert D. Cochran

Mr. Cochran serves as primary, outside corporate and securities counsel for emerging growth corporations in high-technology areas, and as transactional securities counsel to venture capital funds.  His highly transactional practice emphasizes venture capital financing, equity compensation planning, mergers and acquisitions, and structuring major contracts and securities issuances to prepare for prospective firmly underwritten initial public offerings ("IPO").  Over his career of approximately 23 years, Mr. Cochran has guided start-up corporate clients in securing a cumulative aggregate of over US$1,000,000,000 in private equity financing.

Prior start-up clients that have achieved major liquidity events in the past few years include, among others: Techwell, Inc. (IPO (proposed), NASDAQ, TWLL (proposed); Oplink Communications, Inc. (IPO, NASDAQ, OPLK); Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (IPO, AFOP); PC-Tel, Inc. (IPO, PCTI); Panomics, Inc. (sold to Genospectra); BioCheck, Inc. (majority interest sold to Oxis International, Inc.); SurgiCount Medical, Inc. (sold to Franklin Capital Corporation); Newave Semiconductor Corp. (sold to IDTI); Internet Image, Inc. (sold to ITRA); Stream Machine (sold to CRUS); Printroom.com (sold to LEXR); Impala Linear Corporation (sold to FSC)

Mr. Cochran is also a leading expert regarding US / Asia cross-border acquisitions, particularly with respect to Taiwan. In 1989, Mr. Cochran established international legal precedent completing the first-ever tax-free US / Taiwan corporate flip for Mosel-Vitelic, Inc., now publicly listed on the Taiwan stock exchange with a multi-billion dollar market capitalization.  Primax Electronics, Inc. and Myson Technology, Inc. also successfully became publicly listed in Taiwan after successful international acquisition or reorganization transactions conducted with Mr. Cochran's guidance.

Employment History:

Law Office of Robert D. Cochran, Principal, Woodside, California, 1995 to present.

International Merger and Acquisition Consultant, Los Altos and Santa Clara, California, 1992 to 1994 (advising corporations, investment banks, law firms and accounting firms regarding specialty international acquisition techniques).

Mosel-Vitelic, Inc., Vice President and General Counsel, Sunnyvale, California, 1989 to 1991 (responsible for business development, worldwide legal matters, and corporate acquisitions).

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, associate, Palo Alto, California, 1983 to 1989 (serving as corporate and securities counsel for emerging corporations and venture capital funds, trained directly by Larry Sonsini, then and now regarded as the number one securities practitioner representing emerging high-technology corporations in the United States).

Education:

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1983
Harvard College, B.A. (Economics), 1979
Age: 48
Marital Status:  Married with two children.