It was a memorable year for the UC Center for Business Law SF. We brought together scholars, practitioners, regulators, and students to focus on business law issues on a range of topics including startup matters, venture capital, financing trends, digital assets regulation, boardroom matters and courtroom disputes.
In the first half of the academic year,
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Heidi counsels emerging growth companies and investors on a broad range of transactional matters, from venture capital financings to mergers and acquisitions, technology transfers and general business matters. In her role as corporate lawyer, she acts as outside general counsel for startups, providing legal, business and strategic advice throughout their lifecycle, including startup structure formation,
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The CBL Roundtable is an invite-only program that seeks to assemble diverse perspectives from regulators, operators, and investors to expressly identify friction points and, more importantly, pragmatic solutions for everyone involved in the ecosystem.
The goal of the CBL Roundtable is to promote dialogue and thought-leadership around the evolving regulatory frameworks for new financial products and services.
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We are co-sponsors of the Hastings Business Law Journal and Hastings International and Comparative Law Journal
2023 Symposium – ESG: The Future of Environmental Disclosures!
We invite Bay Area law students and legal practitioners to hear from industry-leading attorneys in the ESG space.
Professor Evan Epstein, the Executive Director of the UC Center for Business Law SF will be moderating the first session “Comparing Securities Disclosure Requirements in the US,
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Sumana Kaluvai (Hometown: Roseville, CA) is a 3L at UC Law SF. She studied Bioengineering with a Tech Management focus at UCLA. She worked in pharmaceutical consulting at IQVIA prior to coming to law school.
She interned at Quinn Emanuel (with a client secondment at Ripple) during her 1L summer, returned as a diversity fellow at Quinn her 2L summer and will be joining Quinn’s SF office after graduation.
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Ricardo Parada is a 3L at UC Law San Francisco. As a social justice concentrator, he is particularly interested in the intersection of transactional law and community economic development.

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ricardo earned his bachelor’s degree in politics with a minor in Latino/Latin American Studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles,
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Dilani Logan is a 3L student at UC Law SF and a proud first-generation college graduate. She was born and raised in Mississauga, Canada and studied Medical Science and Spanish at the University of Western Ontario before obtaining her master’s degree in Global Health from Duke University. Prior to law school, Dilani worked as a researcher at the American Institutes for Research and interned with organizations including the World Health Organization,
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You can read the full Newsletter in this link: CBL Newsletter Fall 2022.
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It has been a very productive Fall 2022 semester for the UC Hastings’ Center for Business Law. We kicked off the academic year with a happy-hour event that brought together our business-minded students, fellows, alumni and faculty. This was followed by our CBL Lunch Speaker Series showcasing leading corporate law practitioners in the Bay Area with full-house audiences.
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This event explored the current state of equity compensation in unicorn startups. The expert panel included Barrett Cohn (Scenic Advisement), Sriram Krishnamurthy (WSGR), Mike Huskins (Nikkl), Adrienna Huffman (Brattle Group) and Evan Epstein (UC Hastings) discussed the challenges of incentivizing employees in a period of economic uncertainty, new tools and business models for meeting those challenges,
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