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John L Savva

John L Savva

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About

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Practice Areas

Capital Markets

Career

Partner, Palo Alto office. Member, Firm’s General Practice Group. For over 35 years, John has successfully represented prominent and cutting-edge corporations and emerging growth companies in their most significant public and private financings, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, derivatives transactions and venture capital investments. John has extensive experience advising clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, media and telecommunications, biotechnology and other healthcare and life sciences, financial institutions, retail and e-commerce. John has advised on initial public offerings by Anaplan, AZEK, Columbia Sportswear, Confluent, CoSine Communications, Credo, Data Domain, FibroGen, Hortonworks, Levi Strauss & Co., Marvell Technology Group, Mobileye, ON24, ONI Systems, Palm, Paula Financial, SINA.com, Toast, Turnstone Systems, Unity Software, Universal Access, Upstart Holdings, Weave Communications and Yodlee, as well as numerous follow-on offerings, issuer private placements and private secondary share placements. John represented SoftBank in connection with its $10 billion monetization of a portion of its interest in Alibaba through the second-largest mandatory exchangeable security offering ever conducted. John has also advised clients on a variety of corporate governance and disclosure issues, including issues relating to the governance implications of artificial intelligence, financial statement restatements, disclosure policies and procedures, non-GAAP financial measures and Regulation FD, and has participated in a number of internal inquiries and investigations.

Personal

Partner since 1997. Loyola Law School, J.D. (summa cum laude) 1988. Pitzer College, B.A. 1985.

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United States - USA

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
John Savva is recommended for his expert counsel on public and private offerings of debt and equity. He is experienced in a broad array of sectors, including technology, healthcare and life sciences.

Strengths

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  • John gives precise and difficult judgments calmly and with tremendous impact.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United StatesChambers Global Guide
  • John is also responsive, thorough and he knows securities laws well.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United StatesChambers Global Guide
  • John is brilliant and incredibly responsive. He is our first call if we have a complex transaction.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United StatesChambers Global Guide

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