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Jill Basinger, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in its Los Angeles office. Ms. Basinger, who focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, employment litigation, and wage and hour, also has extensive experience in the areas of copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, unfair business practices, fraud and other complex business torts. As an active trial lawyer, she has successfully tried cases involving wrongful termination, fraud, breach of contract, defamation, trade secret theft, invasion of privacy, and other disputes. Ms. Basinger was recently appointed to the Board of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) and selected as the Litigation Section Co-Chair.

Peter N. Townshend, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in its San Diego and Silicon Valley offices. Mr. Townshend, who is co-chair of his firm’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice group, has extensive experience representing emerging growth technology companies and venture capital investors in structuring a wide variety of transactions, including venture capital, angel and other private equity financings; convertible note and other debt financings; mergers and acquisitions; public offerings; and more. A recognized expert on issues relating to startups, mergers and acquisitions, and angel and venture capital, he is a member of Tech Coast Angels, San Diego CONNECT and a regular lecturer for the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurship at U.C. San Diego. He has also lectured at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Diego, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University.