FIRM PRACTICE AREAS
- Corporate and General Business
- Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts
- Probate and Trust Administration
DAVID BARRY WHITEHEAD
Corporate and Business Law; Securities Law; Corporation, Limited Liability Company and Partnership Formation and Operation; Business Counseling; Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Administration. Stanford University, A.B. History 1968; Stanford Law School, J.D. 1971.
Mr. Whitehead specializes in business, corporate and securities matters
with an emphasis on start-up companies, corporate acquisitions and
corporate financing. He also has an extensive estate planning practice,
including probate and trust administration. He has represented both
private and public companies in a variety of sophisticated
transactions, including initial and mezzanine stage financings,
corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, mergers and asset
sales, public offerings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions,
proxy contests and tender offers. He has also served as counsel to
independent directors of several public companies advising on sensitive
areas independent of the company’s general counsel. Mr. Whitehead
has prepared materials for legal education courses involving corporate
matters, has been a lecturer at Golden Gate University's Law School on
securities matters and a Moot Court Judge for Stanford Law
School. Mr. Whitehead has been active in public service as
an officer and director of several charities, including the California
Historical Society Foundation, The Gold Rush Trail Foundation, Opera
West Foundation, Hannah and Erich Sachs Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln High School of San Francisco
Alumni Association that he co-founded in 1988. He previously served as
a director of Easter Seals Society of San Francisco, Enterprise for
High School Students, Traveler's Aid Society of San Francisco and
Hospital de la Familia. His biography currently appears in Who's Who in
America and two of its specialty series, Who's Who in American Law and
Who's Who in the West.