Bio

Jennifer Carlson is a Corporate & Securities partner in Mayer Brown's Palo Alto office. Her practice focuses on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters. She represents companies, investors, and underwriters in a wide variety of capital markets and finance transactions, including initial public, follow-on, and secondary equity offerings; investment grade, high yield, and convertible debt offerings; venture capital investments; and liability management transactions. Jen also represents buyers and sellers in private and public mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, private equity investments, and other strategic transactions. In addition to her transactional practice, Jen counsels companies regarding securities law compliance, stock exchange listing requirements, fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and other matters. Jen represents publicly-traded and private start-up companies, as well as the institutions and individuals that finance them, across a wide range of industries, including Life Sciences; Energy; Technology, Media, and Telecommunications; Retail; Hospitality and Leisure; Insurance (including InsurTech); and Financial Services (including FinTech). Before entering the legal profession, Jen had a career in the fields of biochemistry and genetics at Indiana University-Bloomington and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, with published research in protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions.