Ward has represented companies and investors in numerous acquisition transactions, including leveraged buy-outs and other M&A transactions involving the sale of companies to large, publicly traded buyers. Ward has also represented investors and companies in over twenty-five PIPE transactions. Additionally, he has represented investors in dozens of transactions in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, Turkey, the Middle East and Eastern and Western Europe. Ward works with a diverse range of companies, including companies in the following areas: telecommunications software and services (wired and wireless); semiconductors and optical components; alternative energy; software; business and consulting services; nanotechnology; and life sciences.

Ward received an A.B. in Social Theory, magna cum laude, from Haverford College; was a Fulbright Scholar at the J. W. v. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany; pursued doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley; and received a J.D. from Stanford University. Before joining Gunderson Dettmer, Ward worked in the New York, Frankfurt and Seoul offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He helped found the New York office of Gunderson Dettmer.