Michael Moradzadeh

Mr. Moradzadeh is a private equity, venture capital, and technology lawyer, and the founder of Rimon, PC. As CEO of Rimon, he grew it into a global law firm. He has presented on innovations in law firm management and business models at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley Law School, and UC Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Moradzadeh has also presented to the board of directors of global law firms to help them innovate their own structures.

Mr. Moradzadeh’s innovations with Rimon have received awards from the Financial Times and the American Bar Association Journal and have appeared in a wide array of international publications, including the Economist, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the American Lawyer Magazine, the National Law Journal, American Bar Association Magazine, the National Post, Bloomberg, Law & More, Legal Management Magazine, the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journals, the San Francisco Business Times, the Silicon Valley Business Journal, American Lawyer’s Law Technology News, Law 360, and eLawyering. Mr. Moradzadeh was recognized by the American Bar Association Journal as a top innovator in the law and awarded the Legal Rebel distinction. He has also received the award for law firm innovation by the Recorder.

Mr. Moradzadeh’s practice focuses on private equity and venture capital representation. He represents both companies and investors in governance, diligence, investment rounds, and stock sales. He has worked on deals ranging from small angel investments to representing a private equity firm in a $6 billion acquisition.

Mr. Moradzadeh is also an investor and advisor to legal technology companies, including as a Venture Partner of The LegalTech Fund.

Prior to Rimon, Mr. Moradzadeh represented private equity, venture capital, and technology companies at Ropes & Gray, LLP in San Francisco. Mr. Moradzadeh also worked at the United States Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. Before law school, Mr. Moradzadeh worked for several high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley including Napster and Check Point Software, as well as Silicon Valley law firms Capstone Law Group and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Moradzadeh also co-founded EZ Web Mall in 1997.

Mr. Moradzadeh lives in Hillsborough, California with his wife and three children.