Mr. Ffrench earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif. While attending the UCLA School of Law, Mr. Ffrench also served as a teaching assistant and won multiple American Jurisprudence Awards. He earned his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Mr. Ffrench’s experience includes representation a broad range of clients, from startups to public companies, in a variety of industries, including technology, security, healthcare, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, software development, and medical devices. Mr. Ffrench has represented clients in a diverse range of transactions including the acquisition and sale of companies, initial public offerings and private placements of debt and equity. Mr. Ffrench’s transactional experience includes multiple roll-up acquisitions for clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with values over $20 million, purchases and sales of automobile dealerships, a $52 million follow-on offering for an internet-based auction company, a $30 million private financing for a toy retailer, the $36 million sale of a division of a public dental management company, and a $25 million private placement for a disease management company.
Our attorneys have extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and startup company formations. We have extensive experience with general corporate and contract matters, as well as mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, and both public and private financings.