Jennifer (Jenny) Sheridan is the founder and principal of JLSheridan Law, a Silicon Valley boutique law firm focused on technology transactions, IP counseling and data privacy compliance. She has earned the CIPP/US privacy certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Prior to founding her law firm, she served as General Counsel and Secretary of a publicly traded software company, VP, GC and Secretary of a technology privately held company, corporate associate at Brobeck Phelger & Harrison in Palo Alto, and corporate associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in NYC.

Jenny has over twenty years of experience as a Silicon Valley technology attorney including serving as General Counsel of several technology companies. She offers practical advice to drive business results and cost-effective legal expertise on a variety of issues. Your company will benefit from the knowledge and experience of a twenty-plus-year business attorney without the BigFirm price tag. Having served as an in-house GC, she understands the cost pressures of lean and dynamic companies. Her contemporaneous teaching experience offers an awareness of current legal trends and approaches to new problems.

She has successfully led complex negotiations of strategic license agreements, partnering agreements, M&A, and financings, as well as favorably resolved commercial and patent litigation. She has trained and managed teams of contract negotiators. She has built IP portfolios from the ground up as well as refined existing ones to be more aligned with the company’s strategic goals. For litigation, large M&A and financing transactions, SEC filings, and other highly specialized work, Jenny can work with your outside counsel as needed, or provide affiliated specialized counsel who she has worked with on past matters.

She is also the founder of StartUp Law Bootcamp, a training platform for technology attorneys as well as StartUp Law Forum, a knowledge and networking community for technology attorneys. As a law professor, she has taught technology transactions since the 1990’s at Santa Clara University School of Law. She has also taught several intellectual property courses as well as property law as a visiting law professor at University of Tennessee Knoxville and Drexel Law School in Philadelphia.

Jenny graduated from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She also holds a Masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, a Masters in Management degree from Mills College, and an AB in Economics and Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.