Alan F. Denenberg
Widely recognized as a leading lawyer in both capital markets and M&A. Has advised on more than 75 IPOs over the past 10 years.
Alan is widely recognized as a leading lawyer in both capital markets and M&A. In capital markets, he advises on equity (including more than 75 IPOs over the past 10 years), debt and convertibles. In M&A, he represents both public and private sellers and acquirers.
He also provides general corporate advice to a wide range of public and private companies, and represents companies and underwriters in a broad range of industries, including technology, life sciences, industrials and consumer products.
Alan is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA for debt, equity and convertibles capital markets work, and he was recognized in 2025 by Forbes as both a top 500 U.S. lawyer and top 500 U.S. M&A lawyer. He is a three-time Law360 “Technology MVP,” among other awards.
Alan’s clients include Accuray, Acutus Medical, Arcade Beauty, AssetMark, Credo Semiconductor, CrowdStrike, Equinix, GoDaddy, McKesson, Mirion, Oruka, Penumbra, Pony.ai, Premiere Medical, QuinStreet, UltraClean and Xponential Fitness.
Experience
Capital Markets
Alan has worked on public offerings, including convertible, investment-grade and high-yield debt and equity offerings, for a variety of companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, Avid Bioservices, AVITA Medical, Beigene, Bloom Energy, Carvana, Cisco, Citrix, Coherus, Equinix, Fastly, Five Prime, Fortinet, GlobalLife, GoDaddy, Groupon, Illumina, Intel, Intuit, Ionis, iRhythm, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Juniper, Microchip, Nanostring, Natera, NetApp, Nevro, Nike, Nurix, Nvidia, Palantir, Paypal, Penumbra, Playtika, Proofpoint, Pure Storage, Rambus, Revance, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Silicon Valley Bank, Skillz, Sonosite, Theravance, Torchmark, Twitter, Uber, Ultra Clean Holdings, Workday, Xilinx, Yelp and ZScaler.
Recent IPOs for which Alan had primary responsibility include Acelyrin, Acutus, Alector, Aligos Therapeutics, Allakos, AssetMark, Berkeley Lights, Bloom Energy, Bolt, Carvana, Coursera, Credo Semiconductor, CrowdStrike, Denali, Eargo, Elastic, Endava, Frontier, GoodRx, Hillevax, Honest, IDEAYA, Maravai, NightDragon, Nurix, Olema, One Medical, Pivotal Software, Playtika, Poshmark, Reddit, Revolution Medicines, Roku, Shockwave Medical, Seer, SMART, SolarWinds, Sumo Logic, Tempus AI, Uber and Unity Healthcare.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- McKesson on its:
- acquisitions of controlling interests in Core Ventures and PRISM Vision
- acquisitions of Medical Specialty Distributors and RxCrossroads
- joint venture with Change Healthcare
- divestiture of its Enterprise Information Solutions business
- AssetMark on its:
- acquisition of assets of Morningstar
- sale to GTCR
- Altair Engineering on its sale to Siemens
- Equinix on its:
- acquisitions of Packet Host, Switch & Data, ALOG, Nimbo, Verizon’s data center business, and Infomart Dallas
- sale of data centers to 365 Main
- Ingram Micro on its:
- acquisitions of BrightPoint, CloudBlue Technologies and Shipwire
- sale to China’s HNA Group and subsequent sale to Platinum Equity
- CrowdStrike on its acquisitions of Preempt Security and Humio
- Ultra Clean on its acquisitions of AIT, Sieger, Miconex, Quantum Global Technologies and Ham-Let
- Doma on its take-private acquisition by Title Resources Group
- Pivotal Software on its sale to VMware
- Mirion Technologies on its acquisition of Paragon Energy Solutions
- Upgrade on its acquisition of Uplift
- Credo Technology Group on its acquisition of Hyperlume
- Silver Lake on its investment in WPEngine and WPEngine’s acquisition of Flywheel
News
Recognition
Forbes – America’s Top M&A Lawyers, 2025
Forbes – America’s Top Lawyers, 2025
Chambers USA & Global – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, Western United States, Band 1
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, California, Band 1
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Convertible Debt, Band 1
Chambers USA – Corporate/M&A, Northern California
Law360 – “Technology MVP of the Year,” 2013, 2015 and 2022
Law360 – “Capital Markets MVP of the Year,” 2019
IFLR1000 – Capital Markets (Debt, Equity), United States, Market Leader
Daily Journal – “California Lawyer Attorney of the Year,” 2020
Daily Journal – “Top 100 Lawyers,” California, for many years consecutively
Daily Journal – “Top Health Care Lawyers,” 2021-2023
Legal 500 U.S. – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
American Lawyer – “Dealmaker of the Year,” 2014
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, Thought Leader
The Recorder – “Trusted Advisor,” 2016
Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law,” San Jose, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025
Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year: Securities/Capital Markets Law,” San Francisco, 2014
Education
Prior experience
- Partner (San Francisco); Managing Partner (Singapore office), Shearman & Sterling, 1994-2000
Qualifications and admissions
- State of California
- State of New York