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 About
The
attorneys at Clarion Law have significant experience at prominent Silicon Valley
law firms and relevant in-house legal experience at technology companies.
Clarion
Law attorneys are experienced transactional lawyers who understand how to bring
contracts to closure quickly and efficiently.
Because of this, we are able to deliver our services in
significantly less time than other law firms. Moreover, we understand our
clients' businesses, and we recognize that our role is to facilitate our
clients' business objectives, not to create legal obstacles. We know when to
raise issues in contracts and, more importantly, when not to do so. Companies
use Clarion Law for its contract, transactional and corporate needs because our
attorneys are more experienced in these types of matters than many attorneys at
other firms.
At
Clarion Law, we aim to provide the highest quality legal services in our areas
of expertise and develop long-term partnerships with our clients.
Clarion
Law is managed by Heayoon Woo, its Founder and Principal Attorney.
Heayoon has more than 12 years of experience in technology licensing
transactions and strategic partnerships, corporate securities law, private
financings, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, both in international
and domestic contexts.
More
about Heayoon:
Prior
to founding Clarion Law in 2003, Heayoon served as the Vice President, General Counsel of Instill
Corporation, a leading supply chain solutions company with deep financial
backing from firms such as Aspen Ventures, Charles
River Ventures, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, JP Morgan Partners, Mayfield and
Procter & Gamble. At Instill, Heayoon managed all of its legal
affairs and oversaw the human resources department as a member of its executive
team. Heayoon also served as the
Vice President, General Counsel of Rotary Rocket Company, another high-profile
Silicon Valley technology company which received over $40 Million in outside
funding.
Prior
to taking leadership roles at in-house legal departments, Heayoon was a Senior
Attorney with Venture Law Group, a leading Silicon Valley corporate law firm,
until 1998. Prior
to joining
Venture Law Group, she was a corporate associate in the Palo Alto office of Gray
Cary Ware & Freidenrich, another leading Silicon Valley law firm.
Heayoon began her private practice in 1991 in the Corporate
Department of
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in New York City.
Some
of the clients that Heayoon has worked with in the past include the following:
Yahoo!; Sina.com; 3Com Corporation; Maxtor Corporation; C-Cube Microsystems;
Digidesign (acquired by Avid); Trident
Microsystems; VMX (acquired by Octel
Communications); Pacific Gateway Exchange; KillerApp Corporation (acquired
by CNet); Topica.com; Cygnus Solutions (acquired
by Red Hat); HearMe.com; Receipt.com (acquired
by Valicert); Molecular Dynamics (acquired
by Amersham Pharmaceuticals); Xaqti (acquired
by Vitesse Semiconductor); Mirae Corporation; Mitsumi Electronics; Jazz
Multimedia; Digital Persona; Pulse Entertainment; and Solbourn Computer (acquired
by Grumman Support Services).
Heayoon
is a 1991 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she served on the Stanford
Journal of International Law. She received her A.B. from Harvard College in
1987, where she was magna cum laude and John Harvard Scholar.
Heayoon
is admitted to both the California State Bar and the New York State Bar.
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