Alan F. Denenberg
Co-head of Northern California office. Has a wide-ranging practice with a particular focus on capital markets (including more than 60 IPOs since 2015) and M&A.
Alan, co-head of our Northern California office, has extensive experience in corporate finance, M&A and general corporate advice representing acquirers, target companies and private equity firms.
He advises clients on a broad range of public and private equity, debt and convertible financings, including more than 60 IPOs since 2015. He represents U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and underwriters in industries including technology, life sciences, retail and consumer products.
Law360 named Alan a “Capital Markets MVP” in 2019 and a “Technology MVP” three times, most recently in 2022. Chambers USA ranks Alan in each of capital markets, convertible securities and M&A.
Alan provides general corporate advice to clients including Accuray, Acutus Medical, Arcade Beauty, AssetMark, Credo Semiconductor, CrowdStrike, Equinix, GoDaddy, Ingram Micro, Kittyhawk, McKesson, Mirion, Penumbra, PLAYSTUDIOS, Premiere Medical, QuinStreet, UltraClean and Xponential Fitness.
Experience
Capital Markets
Alan has worked on public offerings, including convertible, investment-grade and high-yield debt and equity offerings, for a variety of companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, Avid Bioservices, AVITA Medical, Beigene, Bloom Energy, Carvana, Cisco, Citrix, Coherus, Equinix, Fastly, Five Prime, Fortinet, GlobalLife, GoDaddy, Groupon, Illumina, Intel, Intuit, Ionis, iRhythm, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Juniper, Microchip, Nanostring, Natera, NetApp, Nevro, Nike, Nurix, Nvidia, Palantir, Paypal, Penumbra, Playtika, Proofpoint, Pure Storage, Rambus, Revance, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Silicon Valley Bank, Skillz, Sonosite, Theravance, Torchmark, Twitter, Uber, Ultra Clean Holdings, Workday, Xilinx, Yelp and ZScaler.
Recent IPOs for which Alan had primary responsibility include Acelyrin, Acutus, Alector, Aligos Therapeutics, Allakos, AssetMark, Berkeley Lights, Bloom Energy, Bolt, Carvana, Coursera, Credo Semiconductor, CrowdStrike, Denali, Eargo, Elastic, Endava, Frontier, GoodRx, Hillevax, Honest, IDEAYA, Maravai, NightDragon, Nurix, Olema, One Medical, Pivotal Software, Playtika, Poshmark, Reddit, Revolution Medicines, Roku, Shockwave Medical, Seer, SMART, SolarWinds, Sumo Logic, Tempus AI, Uber and Unity Healthcare.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Altair Engineering on its $10 billion acquisition by Siemens
- AssetMark on its:
- acquisition of assets of Morningstar
- acquisition by GTCR
- McKesson on its:
- acquisitions of Medical Specialty Distributors, RxCrossroads and controlling interest in Core Ventures
- joint venture with Blackstone portfolio company, Change Healthcare
- divestiture of its Enterprise Information Solutions business to Allscripts
- Equinix on its:
- acquisitions of Packet Host, Switch & Data, ALOG, Nimbo, Verizon’s data center business, Infomart Dallas
- sale of data centers to 365 Main
- Ingram Micro on its:
- acquisitions of BrightPoint, CloudBlue Technologies and Shipwire
- sale to a subsidiary of China’s HNA Group
- subsequent acquisition by Platinum Equity
- Ultra Clean on its acquisitions of AIT, Sieger, Miconex, Quantum Global Technologies and Ham-Letn Ltd.
- PLAYSTUDIOS on its combination with Acies
- Upgrade on its acquisition of Uplift
- Doma on its take-private acquisition by Title Resources Group
- Dynamics on its combination with Senti Bio
- CrowdStrike on its acquisitions of Preempt Security and Humio
- Pivotal Software on its sale to VMware
- WPEngine on its acquisition of Flywheel
- Silver Lake on its investment in WPEngine
Insights
News
Recognition
Chambers USA & Global – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, Western United States, Band 1
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, California, Band 1
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Convertible Debt, Band 1
Chambers USA – Corporate/M&A, Northern California
Law360 – “Technology MVP of the Year,” 2013, 2015 and 2022
Law360 – “Capital Markets MVP of the Year,” 2019
IFLR1000 – Capital Markets (Debt, Equity), United States, Market Leader
Daily Journal – “California Lawyer Attorney of the Year,” 2020
Daily Journal – “Top 100 Lawyers,” California, for many years consecutively
Daily Journal – “Top Health Care Lawyers,” 2021-2023
Legal 500 U.S. – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
American Lawyer – “Dealmaker of the Year,” 2014
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, Thought Leader
The Recorder – “Trusted Advisor,” 2016
Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law,” San Jose, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025
Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year: Securities/Capital Markets Law,” San Francisco, 2014
Education
Prior experience
- Partner (San Francisco); Managing Partner (Singapore office), Shearman & Sterling, 1994-2000
Qualifications and admissions
- State of California
- State of New York