Dave Healy

About Dave Healy

I am an experienced, practical business lawyer representing start ups and public companies in financings, M&A, joint ventures, technology transactions, board representation and general business advice. I understand the needs of CEOs, CFOs and GCs, having also served as Acting General Counsel of Cadence Design Systems and as Interim General Counsel of Hewlett Packard under Meg Whitman. I enjoy playing guitar, cycling, and being with my wonderful family and friends and inspirational clients. Client Quotes: “I want to thank David Healy for all of his efforts on behalf of HP. David provided strong leadership during a challenging period of transition at HP. We’re all grateful for his contributions.\"-Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer, HP \"Dave is the best (and fastest) M&A attorney I know.\" John O\'Farrell, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz (Ben Horowitz (in his book \"The Hard Thing About Hard Things\") refers to John as the \"greatest big-deal person I had ever known.\")\"Thanks for all the help and hard work on the [HP/] Opsware signing! We always felt 10x better whenever you were in the room.\" Marc Andreessen \"Dave has kept me out of trouble for almost 20 years now.\" Repeat start up CEO

Experience

1. Partner, Corporate Group

   Fenwick & West

   Jan 2025 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

Education

• Saint Ignatius Coll. Prep., SF, 1972; UC Davis, Economics, 1976; UC Hastings, JD 1979

  JD

Skills

• Entrepreneurship
• Business Development
• Corporate Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Start-Ups
• Licensing
• Securities Regulation
• Intellectual Property
• Corporate Governance