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Francois Guy Laugier

About Francois Guy Laugier

Francois Guy Laugier is a lawyer practicing business & commercial litigation, corporate & business transactions, intellectual property and 2 other areas of law. Francois received a degree from University of Montpellier in 1980, and has been licensed for 36 years. Francois practices at Ropers Majeski in Redwood City, CA.

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Areas of Law

  • Intellectual Property
  • International Law
  • Other 3
    • Business & Commercial Litigation
    • Corporate & Business Transactions
    • Mergers & Acquisitions

Practice Details

  • Languages
    French
    Arabic
    Farsi
    German
    Greek
    Hebrew
    Hindi
    Italian
    Japanese
    Korean
    Persian
    Russian
    Spanish
  • Payment Information
    Payment & Cost Features
    Free initial consultation
    Fixed hourly rates: $425 - $450/hr
    Fixed fees available
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Partner
    Firm Name
    Ropers Majeski
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Representative Matters: Represented Mindee Incorporated, a Y Combinator startup developing API-based products for instantly extracting information from images of any kind to transform them into useable data, in a flip moving its corporate headquarters from France to the United States
    through its Series A fundraising.
    Represented SpringCard SAS, an innovator in electronic design
    development, in licensing its core contactless technology to Socket Mobile, Inc., a leading provider of data capture
    delivery solutions designed to enhance workplace productivity. With SpringCard's technology, Socket Mobile can further develop its contactless
    wireless design solutions
    support customers from locally-focused companies to large international operations.
    Represented forMetris, a privately-held French technology company, in its acquisition by Docebo, a Canadian publicly-traded purchasing company. forMetris provides a sophisticated learning impact evaluation solution in 16 languages across 120 countries,
    has a US subsidiary
    operations in the United States. Docebo offers highly configurable training platforms for corporate learning management systems,
    has announced an initial public offering in the United States
    filing for listing on Nasdaq. The forMetris team in Paris will join Docebo, exp
    ing
    strengthening the company's offering in France,
    providing a best-in-class platform via Docebo Learning Impact.
    Represented a privately held subsidiary of a publicly-traded French company offering a $2 billion hardware
    software solution in three proposed transactions involving a multinational retail chain
    a multinational department store.
    Advised a publicly-traded French technology company on a variety of business matters including commercial leases in California, employment issues, corporate governance,
    other business transactions.
    Counseled a privately owned renewable energy engineering firm in a $25 million stock sale to a private equity firm.
    Represented a world leader in organic certification in the agri-food, forestry, textiles, cosmetics,
    ecoproducts sectors in all forms of corporate matters
    litigation in the US.
    Represented a privately held subsidiary of a publicly-traded French B2B hardware
    software solution company in multiple high-value master purchase agreements
    service agreements, including its $100 million purchase agreement with a multinational tech company.
    Advised a privately held subsidiary of a publicly-traded French company manufacturing medical devices in a $35 million proposed acquisition of a competing medical device manufacturer.
    Represented a European public corporation in its $28.5 million cash
    $18 million earn-out acquisition of a California-based manufacturer of leading biopharmaceutical storage
    transport technology.
    Represented European technology companies in their corporate structure inversion ( flip ) resulting in the existing foreign company becoming the wholly-owned subsidiary of a newly formed US entity. Negotiated with existing shareholders
    investors, drafted all US documentation,
    supervised tax advisors
    foreign counsel.
    Served as general corporate counsel to a startup founded by a Silicon Valley veteran
    Stanford University professor. Our team represented the company in all aspects of incorporation, licensing to hardware
    software companies, employment issues, domestic
    international registration of trademarks, multiple rounds of financing, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance counseling,
    negotiation of multi-year, multi-million dollar licenses to national
    international providers in the communications industry.
    Represented a Swiss bank in its acquisition of privately held shares of a Silicon Valley-based high tech company.
    Advised an established European solar company (photovoltaic
    thermal) in the organization
    growth of its multistate US operations. Created a library of contracts for all business purposes, Stock Option Plan, trademarks,
    assisted in building their corporate team.
    Represented a French software company specializing in Internet Protocol telephony in its $14 million stock acquisition by a US public company.
    Represented privately held Swiss surgical device company focused on developing safe
    efficient surgical solutions in all aspects of sizeable acquisition of industry-leading spinal surgical device manufacturer.
    Represented Silicon Valley immunodiagnostics manufacturer in its $7 million asset acquisition by European diagnostic biotechnology company.

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    Federal
    France
    1990, California
    USDC: District of Columbia
    Europe
    2007, District of Columbia
    Memberships

    MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

    •French American Chamber of Commerce
    •French Ministry of Economy and Finance

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of San Diego School of Law
    Class of 1988
    LL.M.
    Other Education
    University of Montpellier
    Class of 1980
    Maîtrise en Droit Privé

Francois Guy Laugier

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1001 Marshall Street, Suite 500Redwood City, CA 94063U.S.A.

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