Ughetta Manzone
Founding Attorney
Location / Bay Area
Phone / (415) 963-4318
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State Bar of California
Ughetta Manzone is a Founding Partner of VLP and a corporate and securities attorney specializing in counseling entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs in residence and private companies. She provides legal and strategic advice in the areas of entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, stock option, employment and executive compensation matters, debt, venture capital and private equity financings, securities matters, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Prior to joining VLP, Ughetta founded a private legal practice focusing on early stage private companies. Before that, she worked as an attorney at both Venture Law Group and then Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, where she represented technology companies in every stage of development, from groups of founders needing incorporation advice to such public companies as Yahoo, Inc. She incorporated dozens of private companies and LLCs and advised on such corporate deals as equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings. On a routine basis, she also advised her clients on stock option, SEC compliance and employment matters, drafted and negotiated contracts, attended board meetings and advised the boards of directors on legal and strategic matters.
Ughetta earned her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). She is a member of the State Bar of California.