Anthony McCusker serves as Chair of Goodwin. In this role, he is responsible for Goodwin’s overall strategy, cultural initiatives, client relations, and external communications. He chairs the firm’s Executive Committee and is a member of its Management Committee and Allocations Committee. Anthony previously co-chaired the firm’s Technology practice and chaired the firm’s Silicon Valley office.
Widely recognized as a preeminent adviser in Silicon Valley, he specializes in all areas of corporate, securities, and partnership laws, with a primary focus on advising technology companies and their investors.
Anthony’s company representation spans the entire corporate life cycle, including pre-incorporation planning, general corporate representation and counseling, venture capital financings, corporate governance, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. He also works with venture capitalists, private equity investors, and investment banks involved in private and public stock offerings.
Representative Matters
- Atlassian, Eventbrite, Imperva, Okta, Opower, Poshmark, Twilio, Xoom Corporation, and Zendesk, in their initial public offerings
- Underwriters in the initial public offerings of Five9, Gigamon, Lyft, Qualtrics, Marketo, Snap, Talend, and Trulia
- Twilio in its $280 million and $1 billion follow-on offerings and $500 million 144A convertible note offering
- Atlassian in its $1 billion 144A convertible note offering
- Okta in its 144A convertible note offerings of $345 million, $1 billion and $1.15 billion
- Clickhouse in its $250 million Series B financing
- AllAdapt in its $100 million financing round
- Awardco in its $65 million Series A financing
- Lime in its $170 million investment round
- LogDNA in its $25 million Series C financing
- Miro in its $50 million Series B financing
- FrontApp in its $59 million Series C financing
- SUKI AI in its $20 million Series B financing
- Workboard in its $30 million Series C financing
- Chime in its $500 million Series E financing
- Slack Technologies in its $200 million Series F financing
- Rubrik in its $261 million Series E financing
- Accel Partners in numerous investments, including the $25 million Series B financing of GOAT
- Andreessen Horowitz in numerous investments including the $60 million financing of ride-sharing app Lyft
- Battery Ventures in numerous investments, including the $200 million Series C financing of Fungible
- CRV in numerous investments, including the $100 million Series C financing of Airtable
- Greylock in numerous investments, including the $200 million Series C financing of Cribl
- Index Ventures in numerous investments including the $100 million financing of Discord
- Sequoia Capital in numerous investments, including the $127 million Series C financing of DoorDash
- True Ventures in numerous investments, including the $30 million Series C financing of Peloton
- Uncork Capital in numerous investments, including the $9 million Series A financing of Sym
- Qualtrics in its $12.5 billion sale to Silver Lake and CCP Investments
- Poshmark in its $1.6 billion sale to Naver Corporation
- Portworx in its $370 million sale to Pure Storage
- Moovit in its $900 million sale to Intel
- BlueJeans Network in its sale to Verizon
- Qualtrics in its $8 billion sale to SAP
- Aporeto in its sale to Palo Alto Networks
- Twilio in its acquisition of SendGrid
- Accompany in its $270 million sale to Cisco
- Okta in its acquisition of Stormpath
- OrderAhead in its sale to Square
- Eventbrite in its acquisition of Ticketscript
- Atlassian in its acquisition of Trello
- Chariot in its sale to Ford
- Xoom Corporation in its sale to PayPal
- TellApart in its sale to Twitter
- WaveMarket (Location Labs) in its sale to AVG Technologies
- Perzo in its sale to a consortium of financial services firms led by Goldman Sachs
- Citrus Lane in its sale to Care.com
- RiseSmart in its sale to Randstad Holding
- Xoom Corporation in its acquisition of Blue Kite
- Flurry in its sale to Yahoo
- The Washington Post Company on the sale of The Washington Post newspaper and related publication assets to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos and his private investment firm, Nash Holdings
- Sold numerous companies to acquirors, including AT&T, EMC, Google, IBM, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo
Credentials
Education
JD1995
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
BA1992
University of California, Berkeley
Admissions
Bars
- California
Recognition & Awards
Anthony is consistently recognized by Chambers, The Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America, and other legal directories. He was named a 2020 Top 100 Lawyer in California by Daily Journal and a 2019 Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer. He was also recognized as a 2019 Technology MVP by Law360. Daily Journal has also previously recognized Anthony as one of its “10 Emerging Law Firm Leaders in California” and one of its “Top Emerging Companies Lawyers.”