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Taimur advises on a broad variety of corporate matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries ranging from newly formed startup companies to mature, late-stage private companies, VC funds and strategic corporate investors. His experience spans a wide variety of corporate matters, including incorporations, venture and debt financings, tender offers and structured secondaries, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Taimur provides his clients with practical and thoughtful advice to help solve business and legal issues, assess risks, and structure and negotiate transactions efficiently and successfully. In recent years, Taimur has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Northern California Super Lawyers, “One to Watch” for Corporate Law by U.S. News Best Lawyers in America and named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. During law school, Taimur was Co-President of the Law Students of African Descent (BLSA) and a member of the Berkeley Law Board of Advocates. He also served as a staff editor for the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy, advocated for low-income students through the East Bay Community Law Center’s Youth Defender Clinic and advised startups through Berkeley Law’s New Business Counseling Practicum.

Joanne Fedeyko is a global connector, ecosystem strategist, and advocate for inclusive innovation, dedicated to bridging international ecosystems by connecting entrepreneurs with high-impact global networks with a focus on supporting female founders. Joanne founded the Canadian Women’s Network, a community of over 1,000 female founders to help them grow locally and scale globally through a signature program, Pathway to Silicon Valley. She is Publisher of Disruption Magazine, an online publication telling stories about emerging technology. She is a Founding Board Member of CELS, a life science accelerator and she Co-Founded an angel fund focused on getting more women on the cap table. Joanne currently serves as Vice President of Mentorship at Startup Genome, a global accelerator working with scaling companies looking to expand into the U.S. market.

Linsey Krolik is Assistant Clinical Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, teaching and practicing privacy, startup, and technology law. She is Director of the TechEdge JD, a skills based certificate program for students interested in working in technology law and the Director of the Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic, where students work with real startups on transactional law projects. As a privacy law expert, she is also co-Director of Santa Clara Law’s Privacy Law Certificate. In addition to her teaching role, Linsey continues to practice law – she currently works in a consultant capacity as Product Legal Counsel at Credo AI, an AI governance tool provider, and previously held senior roles as a product, privacy, and commercial lawyer at global companies including PayPal, BILL, ARM, and Palm. She serves as a board director of a global fintech company and is a frequent speaker on privacy, AI governance, product counseling and practical lawyering.

Reanne represents startup, private, and public companies in the technology, life sciences, blockchain and fintech industries. She regularly advises clients on a wide range of employment matters, including day-to-day counseling, wrongful termination disputes, workplace investigations, and executive and restrictive covenant agreements. Reanne has significant experience guiding clients through employment-related issues in financings, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. As a trusted advisor, Reanne routinely guides clients through classification audits involving salary transparency, employee classification, and employee exemption status. She also counsels corporate clients on the legal and strategic complexities of workforce reductions. Reanne has defended employers in single- and multi-plaintiff actions involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, commission disputes, whistleblower retaliation, and FEHA violations, including in court, mediation and arbitration. Dedicated to helping provide equal access to representation, Reanne also has an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Fenwick, Reanne was an associate at an Am Law 50 firm. She is a 2018 graduate of the National Employment Law Council’s Academy Fellowship.