Mike McAdam

Mike McAdam focuses his practice on advising technology companies on general corporate and transactional matters throughout their lifecycles, as well as representing investors in such companies. Mr. McAdam has over 20 years of legal experience in Silicon Valley, as both in-house and outside counsel. For most of the last two decades, he has held senior management and legal roles for both publicly-traded and privately held, venture-backed technology companies. Mr. McAdam joined Goodwin in 2019.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Mr. McAdam was Chief Legal Officer at Lithium Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of digital customer engagement solutions for enterprises, where he was responsible for all legal affairs of the company, through and including its ultimate acquisition by Vista Equity Partners. Prior to Lithium, Mr. McAdam was General Counsel of DemandTec, Inc., a provider of cloud-based pricing and merchandising optimizations solutions for some of the world’s largest retailers, where he led the company’s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock market in 2007 and ultimately guided its acquisition by IBM in 2012. Prior to DemandTec, Mr. McAdam held various senior legal and corporate development roles at Ariba, Inc. and Infoseek Corporation.

Mr. McAdam began his legal career as a corporate associate at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto, California from 1995 through 1998, where he focused primarily on public securities offerings and M&A transactions.