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Mr. Cochran serves as primary outside corporate and securities counsel for emerging growth corporations in high-technology areas and as transactional securities counsel to venture capital funds. His highly transactional practice emphasizes venture capital financing equity compensation planning mergers and acquisitions and structuring major contracts and securities issuances to prepare for prospective firmly underwritten initial public offerings ("IPO"). Over his career of approximately 20 years Mr. Cochran has guided start-up corporate clients in securing a cumulative aggregate of over US$1 000 000 000 in private equity financing. Prior start-up clients that have achieved major liquidity events in the past few years include among others: Oplink Communications Inc. (IPO NASDAQ OPLK); Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. (IPO AFOP); PC-Tel Inc. (IPO PCTI); Newave Semiconductor Corp. (sold to IDTI); Internet Image Inc. (sold to ITRA); Stream Machine (sold to CRUS); Printroom.com (sold to LEXR); Impala Linear Corporation (sold to FSC). Mr. Cochran holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A.(Economics) Harvard College. | 