Speaker Name : Yusuf Safdari
Company : Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Title : Senior Counsel

Mr. Safdari focuses on sophisticated corporate and securities matters for public and private companies, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, international transactions, strategic alliances, private equity investments, and venture capital investments. Mr. Safdari has counseled many large U.S. public companies, U.S. financial institutions and foreign multinational companies (especially India-based companies) on corporate structuring issues and securities compliance matters. In addition, Mr. Safdari has extensive experience in representing technology and emerging growth companies at every stage of their lifecycle.

During his career, Mr. Safdari has represented the Carlyle Group, Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Sun Microsystems, Trimble Navigation, Harley-Davidson, Tenneco, U.S. Venture Partners, H & Q Asia, W.I. Harper, Global Asset Capital and various investment banks. Mr. Safdari has also represented many private equity and venture-backed companies, including, Opsware, Zenprise, WaferGen, XStor, GoFish, MatrixView, Vertical Systems, BL Healthcare, Mobifusion, VPNet, Candescent Technologies and others. Additionally, Mr. Safdari has represented India-based companies and private equity funds including, the Carlyle Group India Pvt. Ltd., Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., Reliance Capital Ltd., Hindustan Lever, Sobha Renaissance Information Technologies, Navneet Publications and others.

Mr. Safdari is a Charter Member of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Mr. Safdari has served as a guest lecturer at TiE and Stanford University Law School.