Bio

Recognized among top women leaders in technology law, Dawn Belt shepherds emerging and high-growth companies through key moments in their lifecycle. She assists clients with startup formation, venture financings and evaluating exit opportunities and provides guidance on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, SEC compliance and corporate governance. Over the last decade, Dawn has worked on a wide range of tech transactions. These include Bill.com’s $216 million IPO, Facebook’s $16 billion IPO (the largest tech IPO in history at the time), GoPro’s $490 million IPO, ServiceNow’s $241 million IPO, Silver Peak Systems' $925 million acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nimble Storage’s $1.2 billion acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and significant venture financings for consumer and enterprise-facing technology companies, including BuzzFeed, Dropbox, ICEYE, Minerva Project, Optimizely and Proterra. Dawn advises company executives and boards of directors on financial reporting and disclosure issues, securities offerings and corporate governance matters. She co-chairs Fenwick’s hiring committee and is co-author of the firm’s Gender Diversity Survey, a benchmark report on women’s participation at the most senior levels of public technology and life sciences companies in the Silicon Valley 150 Index and the Standard & Poor’s 100 Index.