Colin D. Chapman

Colin is a partner in our Silicon Valley office, specializing in the areas of corporate partnering and strategic alliances, technology protection, and licensing and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets. Colin’s focus is representing emerging growth companies principally both in the United States and abroad. Additionally, Colin has considerable experience representing multinational companies requiring such expertise. Colin has represented his clients in negotiating strategic alliances and/or licensing and commercial arrangements in many industries with companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Amazon, Ameritech, AOL, AT&T, Baidu, BT, Cablevision, Cisco, Comcast, Compaq, Exxon Mobil, Facebook, GE, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, Micron, Motorola, NEC, Newscorp., Nintendo, Oracle, Panasonic, RSA, Sharp, Sony, ST Micro, Sun, TI, Thompson, TSMC, Twitter, UMG, VMware, Verizon, Viacom, Visa, Warner and Yahoo. He has also negotiated commercial and clinical arrangements with many major research institutions. Colin has authored articles and books and spoken in a number of forums and on intellectual property matters and related business strategies that affect strategic alliances. He is an author of the treatise, “Corporate Partnering, Structuring and Negotiating Domestic and International Strategic Alliance” (Aspen Publishers), and a Chapter author of both “The Acquisition and Sale of the Emerging Growth Company: The M&A Exit” (Glasser Legal Works) and “Venture Capital and Public Offering Negotiation” (Aspen Publishers). He is also an invited speaker at numerous conferences including the Practicing Law Institute, the Biotechnology Law Institute, the Technology Transfer Conference, and Executive Programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Colin holds a J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Colin’s previous employment includes service as a Congressional Legislative Assistant and Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand. Colin has been a partner at Gunderson Dettmer since its inception, and previously worked in the Palo Alto office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.