Armen Martin JD

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Mr. Armen Martin is a Founding Partner and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Foundation Law Group. He is a corporate attorney who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and securities offerings based in Los Angeles. Armen represents clients in diverse fields including technology, media, financial services, manufacturing, life sciences and telecommunications. Armen has acted as outside, part-time or temporary general counsel of over 500 companies in his legal career. In that capacity he has advised the officers and directors of both private and public companies. He has also assisted his clients in forming joint ventures around the globe. Armen has advised clients in over 150 mergers and acquisitions transactions over the course of his career. Armen's mergers and acquisitions experience includes the representation of numerous companies in sell-side transactions, leading to successful liquidity events for his clients. Armen has also represented a number of acquirors including Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. (a subsidiary of Warner Music Group), Zealot Networks, Inc., Catapult Communications Corporation (acquired by Ixia), Life Technologies (LIFE), Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) and Solectron Corporation (acquired by Flextronics). Armen's venture capital financing experience includes representation of companies and investors in well over 200 financings, constituting over $1 billion in aggregate proceeds. The investors in these financings have included a diverse set of funds such as Alloy Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Canaan Partners, Crescendo Ventures, D.E. Shaw & Co., Draper Fisher Jurvetson, HM Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mayfield Fund, Mission Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Telesoft Partners and TL Ventures. These venture capital financings have also involved a number of strategic investors, such as Bertelsmann Media Worldwide, Intel, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lucent Technology, Nokia, Qualcomm, Pramer Television, Sony and Warner Music Group. Armen has also represented several public companies in connection with public offerings and securities compliance work including Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation (ANH), Catapult Communications Corporation (acquired by Ixia), Loronix Information Systems, Inc. (acquired by Comverse Technology), Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc. (MMPI) and True Religion Brand Jeans (TRLG).