JEFFREY P. HIGGINS
11682 El Camino Real, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92130
Phone | 858-436-8000
Fax | 877-881-9192
jhiggins@gunder.com

JEFF is a founding partner of our San Diego office. He has extensive experience representing emerging growth companies, public corporations, venture capital and private equity firms, and investment banks. Jeff has represented a wide variety of clients—ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises—in hundreds of transactions, and has extensive experience structuring and negotiating venture capital and private equity financing transactions.

Jeff previously served as General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer at Kinzan, Inc., a San Diego-based Web services software company, where he managed the financial and legal affairs of the company. Prior to his relocation to San Diego in 2000, Jeff was a partner in our Menlo Park office, and prior to that, with Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison, focusing on general corporate representation of public and private companies, as well as public offerings of equity and convertible debt, mergers and acquisitions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, strategic corporate partnering transactions, and venture capital transactions. Jeff holds a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. Jeff is admitted to practice in California.