Gregory C. Smith Gregory C. Smith.(Editor and author of Chapter 4 "Federal Securities Law Considerations of Raising Capital: A Practical Guide," Chapter 8 "Venture Capital Analysis and Negotiation," Chapter 9B "Registration and Investor Rights Agreements" and Chapter 23 "Sample Start-Up Company Forms" and other designated Sections). Mr. Smith is the founding partner of Woodside Counsel, P.C., a boutique law firm that specializes in the representation of start-up and emerging growth companies and the investors and professionals that work with them.

Previously, Mr. Smith practiced corporate law for over twenty years at the law firms of Skadden, Arps, where he assisted with the opening of their Palo Alto office and served as a corporate partner for over a decade, and Cooley Godward, where he also served as a corporate partner.Mr. Smith has significant experience in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and partnering transactions and corporate restructurings for public and private companies, both internationally and domestically. He has also represented numerous underwriters and financial advisors in a broad array of financing, restructuring and acquisition transactions.Mr. Smith has been selected for inclusion in publications such as Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He also was one of the "Top Twenty Under Forty" in 2002 in the California Law Business section of The Daily Journal.

Mr. Smith has an active interest and background in music and the performing arts. While at Stanford University, he was winner of the Stanford Concerto Competition (piano) and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences Award in music. In addition, he has appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony on several occasions and continues to perform from time to time. Mr. Smith has served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Music at Stanford University.Mr. Smith received his B.

A. from Stanford University in 1985 with a double major in music and history (with distinction; Phi Beta Kappa) and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.