Partner

Ian Goldstein is a partner in the Princeton office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.   Ian is a vice-chair of the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group and is the leader of the firm's Emerging Company & Venture Capital practice team. His practice is centered around providing strategic and transactional advice and guidance, as well as functioning as an outside general counsel, to business enterprises, investors and entrepreneurs who are focused on innovation and technology development and commercialization.

Entrepreneurs; Growing Businesses.  Ian provides a broad range of legal services to entrepreneurs and growing businesses in a variety of industries, often functioning in a strategic "outside general counsel" role.  He counsels clients on strategic business matters throughout a company's life-cycle and represents and advises clients in critical business transactions, including seed, angel and venture capital financings, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other technology partnerships.

Venture Investing.  Ian has significant experience in counseling angel investors, venture capital firms and corporate venture arms of large corporations in connection with early and late stage preferred stock and convertible debt financings and in connection with exit events involving portfolio companies.  He regularly advises his investor clients on corporate governance, strategic transactions and other critical business matters involving their portfolio companies.

Joint Ventures and Strategic Transactions.  Ian regularly leads transaction teams for clients in a broad range of acquisition and divestiture transactions with both public and private companies.   He has a particularly broad expertise in structuring and negotiating complex multiparty strategic partnership and joint venture transactions in the technology, digital media and entertainment industries.

Industry Experience; Recent Engagements.  Through his client relationships and industry activities, Ian has developed significant industry experience in the representation of digital media, telecommunication, software, Internet, healthcare and alternative energy companies.  Representative client engagements include:

• the representation of the venture arm of a Fortune 50 company in connection with a $17 million convertible preferred stock investment in a Healthcare IT company;
• the representation of a large, privately-held, software company in connection with a strategic preferred stock investment and the subsequent exit event related thereto;
• the representation of Comcast Ventures in connection with two recent investments, one in the mobile software space and another in the social media space; the representation of Comcast Corporation in connection with the acquisition of several technology and Internet-based companies, the acquisition of multiple cable system companies, and the formation of multiparty programming joint ventures the Guardians, FEARnet, the Mtn., Sprout and TV One;
• the representation of DealOn, LLC and its parent company, Congoo, LLC, in connection with a cash and stock sale to publicly traded ReachLocal, Inc.;
• the representation of Connexin Software, Inc., publisher of an industry-leading pediatric electronic health records and practice management system, in connection with a strategic investment in Connexin by Bluff Point Associates;
• the representation of Rosetta Marketing Group, a leading digital marketing agency, in connection with the acquisition of Wishbone, LLC, a digital marketing agency focused on the pharma/healthcare industries; and the representation of Ocean Power Technologies (wave power), Publish2, Inc. (Web 2.0), BOT Beverages (consumer products), United Silicon Carbide (silicon carbide manufacturing and development), Princeton Power Systems (clean technology), and GHO Ventures (clean technology investments) in connection with company formation, seed and venture financings, strategic transactions, and other day-to-day legal matters.

In General.  In addition to his law firm experience, Ian worked in-house as general counsel of a Philadelphia based Internet startup company, where in addition to his day-to-day legal oversight role he was responsible for negotiating multiple financings, dozens of content acquisition and license arrangements, and several strategic partnerships.  Ian received his law degree from Rutgers University, where he graduated with honors and was an editor of the law review, and graduated from Rutgers College with a degree in economics.  He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.