Stephanie Siegel Brecher

Ms. Brecher is a partner in the Corporate practice group in the firm's Orange County office.

Areas of Practice

Ms. Brecher has more than 14 years of experience in corporate transactional law, representing public and private companies, private equity groups, and venture funds in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and venture capital financings. She also serves as general counsel to a number of venture-backed and privately held clients and their management and boards of directors, advising them on day-to-day legal matters, corporate governance issues and significant transactions. Prior to moving into private practice, she served as director and senior counsel at Nortel Networks, where she handled numerous acquisitions of private and public companies, dispositions of various Nortel divisions, and international joint ventures. She also acted as lead counsel for Nortel's Corporate Business Development Group, structuring and executing equity and venture investments for the company in the U.S. and abroad.

Stephanie was also formerly in-house corporate counsel to MCI prior to its acquisition by WorldCom. After graduating from Boalt Hall in 1993, she served as law clerk to the Hon. Richard A. Gadbois, United States District Judge for the Central District of California.

Representative Matters

• Represented LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. in its acquisition of Novera Optics
• Represented New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in various equity financings
• Represented NGEN Partners in numerous cleantech equity investments
• Represented Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.) Inc. in the sale of Pacific Coast Recycling, LLC
• Represented Platinum Equity in its acquisition of Covad Communications Group
• Represented Western Digital in its acquisition of Senvid
• Represented Nortel in numerous acquisitions, divestitures and equity investments totalling more than $10 billion  
• Represented MCI in its Latin American joint venture with Telefonica

Education

• J.D., University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), 1993
• M.S., The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1990
• B.A., Princeton University, 1989

Admissions

• California
• New York
• District of Columbia

Honors

• Former note and comment editor, California Law Review

Articles

"Looking for the Exit: Preparing for the Sale of Your Business," Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal (Fall 2007)