Kevin P. Rogan

Kevin Rogan is a partner who represents emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists and investors, serving them as a trusted legal advisor on corporate and governance matters, finance transactions, and everyday legal matters. As a veteran of several well-known technology startups, he combines his practical business experience with deep legal expertise to help his clients navigate every stage of their journey.

Kevin’s legal practice focuses on advising private companies on corporate governance, financial transactions, contractual agreements, and exit strategies across multiple industries, vertical spaces, and technology sectors. These clients range from newly formed to mature late-stage private companies. Kevin also represents and advises venture capital funds and individuals on investments in these same types of companies. Kevin acts as an external corporate counsel to many of his clients, counseling and assisting them on legal matters involving employment, intellectual property, contractual, tax, corporate governance, and securities law.

Kevin has extensive knowledge in matters of corporate representation, including formation of new companies, corporate governance, complex debt and equity financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, employment agreements, intellectual property development and protection, and commercial agreements. Kevin’s combination of legal and prior business experience enables him to advise his clients more effectively on strategies and solutions that prioritize business goals while balancing legal risks and obligations.

Before pursuing his legal career, Kevin managed the development, launch, and product roadmaps of several innovative products and services at multiple Silicon Valley start-ups and public companies, including Shutterfly and Yahoo!. Kevin has worked with industry luminaries and interacted with all functional groups and senior management at the companies he has worked at. Kevin holds three patents for innovations in user interface design and search algorithms.

Kevin earned his law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was Symposium Editor of the Law Review and earned a High Tech Law Certificate with honors specializing in corporate law. When Kevin isn’t practicing law, he may be racing his car at a local racetrack or injuring himself while working on his latest home improvement project.