 Mr.
Yaghmaie is a corporate and securities partner
and co-head of the firm's Private Equity Practice
Team. Mr. Yaghmaie’s practice entails the
representation of private and publicly-held emerging
growth high technology and life science companies,
leading investment banks and venture capital funds,
with a particular focus on private placements
and venture financings, public offerings of equity
and debt securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Yaghmaie has been involved in many of the
leading corporate and financing technology transactions
in the New York area, and regularly represents
numerous venture-backed companies and venture
capital funds. In addition, Mr. Yaghmaie has
represented both issuers and underwriters in
more than 30 public offerings by venture-backed
issuers across a variety of industries, including
public offerings by Albany Molecular Research,
Best Software, Emcore, Globix, Hologic, IDX,
Innovasive Devices, Knight/Trimark, Media Metrix,
Myriad Genetics, Predictive Systems, StarMedia,
Trimeris, Technitrol and Tellium.
Mr. Yaghmaie has served as counsel to many
leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse
First Boston, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman
Sachs, Hambrecht & Quist, Morgan Stanley,
Robertson Stephens and SG Cowen.
Mr. Yaghmaie is a faculty member of the Practicing
Law Institute and has authored the chapter in
the Securities Filings volume entitled, "Compliance
with the Securities Act in the Acquisition Context."
Mr. Yaghmaie is amongst the authors of the widely-used
book, Venture Capital & Public Offering
Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business.
He is also a senior contributing editor of VC
Experts' Venture Capital Encyclopedia, and a
member of the Advisory Boards of the Silicon
Alley Entrepreneurs Club, VC 2003 and the Young
Venture Capital Society.
Before joining Pillsbury Winthrop, Mr. Yaghmaie
was a co-founding partner of the New York office
of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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Mr.
Colonna is a General Partner in the Telecommunications,
Media and Technology area. Prior to co-founding Flatiron
Partners, JPMP's affiliated investment program in 1996,
Jerry Colonna was a founding partner of CMG@Ventures.
Previously, Mr. Colonna worked for nearly ten years for
CMP Media Inc. At CMP, Mr. Colonna served as Director
for Editorial Technology, becoming the founding director
of the company's Interactive Media Group in 1994. From
1985 to 1993, he served in a variety of roles at InformationWeek,
including a three-year stint as Editor. Mr. Colonna currently
serves on the boards of directors of Planet Out Partners
Inc., Outerforce Inc., and ProfitLogic Inc. Mr. Colonna
also serves on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations
including, Mouse Inc. and Npower NY and is co-Executive
Director of NYC2012, the New York Olympic Games bid committee.
Mr.
Delaney serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Technology
Transactions Group. He represents clients ranging
from "Silicon Alley" start-ups to Fortune 1000
companies. Mr. Delaney has been featured on the
cover of The American Lawyer as one of the "lawyers
for the new economy" and on the cover of New York
Lawyer as one of fifteen lawyers 40 and under
"shaping the law for the 21st Century." Crain's
New York Business recently included him in its
"Technology 100," a list of individuals "likely
to shape the direction and growth of New York's
economy for years to come." 