About
Jeff is a Silicon Valley based capital markets partner who advises public companies and investment banks on their most complex capital markets transactions, with particular expertise in convertible debt, other equity-linked financings and debt offerings generally. He works closely with clients on both the strategic decisions that shape a transaction and its execution, particularly when the structure, regulatory considerations or market dynamics require specialized experience.
Jeff also has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of public and private equity transactions, including IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, at-the-market programs and private placements, and he regularly advises clients on SEC compliance, disclosure and corporate governance matters. His practice focuses particularly on technology and life sciences companies.
- Oracle on $50 billion in concurrent SEC-registered financings.
- Ciena on its private offering of $2.875 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2031.
- eBay on its $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior debt securities.
- DigitalOcean on the repurchase of an aggregate $470 million principal amount of convertible notes and an aggregate $1.474 billion concurrent registered direct offering of common stock.
- Super Micro on multiple transactions, including:
- equity and equity-linked financing transactions for proceeds of up to $7.0 billion.
- $2.3 billion convertible notes offering.
- A private placement of issuance of $700 million convertible notes and liability management transactions relating to $1.725 billion in existing convertible notes.
- AST Space Mobile on 4 convertible note offerings totaling $3.26 billion and related liability management transactions.
In addition, Jeff has advised issuers and underwriters in IPOs and a variety of other equity and debt capital markets transactions including:
- Follow-on and other stock offerings: Carvana, Cryoport, Five Prime Therapeutics, II-VI Incorporated, Lucid Group, Maravai LifeSciences Holdings, Natera, Nextracker, Pandora Music, SiTime
- Convertible notes offerings: 8x8, Accelerate Diagnostics, Accuray, Bloom Energy Corporation, Chegg, Coherus Biosciences, Coupa Software, Cryoport, DexCom, E*TRADE, Enphase, Five9, Groupon, Heska Corporation, II-VI Incorporated, Insight Enterprises, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Lucid Group, Marathon Digital Holdings, Medallia, NanoString Technologies, Natera, NeoGenomics, Nutanix, NuVasive, Palo Alto Networks, Pandora Music, Pure Storage, Twitter, Xometry
- High-yield offerings: Carvana, Elastic, E*TRADE, Twitter
- Investment grade offerings: Lowe’s, Amazon, Citrix, E*TRADE, Flex, Fortinet, Globe Life, Illumina, Intel, Juniper Networks, Sonoco
Jeffrey Gould
855 Main Street
Redwood City, CA 94063