JasonR.
Jones

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Jason Jones

Overview

Jason Jones specializes in representing private equity and venture capital funds, as well as private equity and venture capital-backed companies, on a wide range of transactions, including fund formation and management; convertible note and SAFE financings; preferred stock financings; growth equity investments; secondary sales of founder equity; tender offers; joint ventures; and mergers and acquisitions. He also serves as outside general counsel to start-ups and growth-stage companies and has advised several companies from formation to exit.

Throughout his career, Jason has worked with investors and companies in a variety of industries, including beauty and personal care, consumer goods, technology, real estate, video games, and biotech. Jason has particular expertise in representing companies co-founded by celebrities and social impact companies, including public benefit corporations.

Jason is also an active participant in San Diego's vibrant start-up community. He serves as an advisor to StartR, an accelerator program sponsored by the UC San Diego Rady School of Management, and NuFund Venture Group (formerly TechCoast Angels San Diego) and is a frequent presenter on topics relating to private equity, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.

Experience

Representative Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Represented Bellami in sale to Beauty Industry Group
  • Represented iinside in its sale to CrowdVision (backed by Oaktree Capital)
  • Represented AMN Healthcare in its acquisition of MedPartners
  • Represented Gigavac in sale to Sensata Technologies
  • Represented venture-backed health tech start-up in merger with private equity-backed health tech platform
  • Represented public manufacturing company in $600 million purchase of steel structures division of an international conglomerate
  • Represented German public company in $285 million purchase of drainage systems company from a private equity fund
  • Represented public staffing company in multiple acquisitions of other staffing companies
  • Represented subsidiary of a public company in $400 million purchase of several hundred retail stores from one of the nation’s largest retailers of mobile phones

Representative Strategic Minority Investments

  • Represented Rare Beauty in its collaboration with Selena Gomez
  • Represented Rakuten in its growth equity investment in AltioStar Networks
  • Represented General Atlantic as lead investor in its growth equity investment in The Stellar Health Group, Inc.
  • Represented Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation in its growth equity investment in Generate Capital, as well as follow on investments
  • Represented insurance lead generation company in its growth equity investment from private equity firm

Representative Venture Capital Transactions

  • Represented private equity and venture capital firms in their investments in Fabletics, Savage X Fenty, Eat Just, Studio McGee, Real Good Foods, Youth to the People, Tocaya, Thirteen Lune, Susteau, Vacatia, Scotch & Porter, InnBeauty, Sendoso, and Limbix, among many others
  • Represents GXVE Beauty (founded by Gwen Stefani)
  • Represented HiDef, Inc. in SAFE and preferred stock financings
  • Represented Postcard Game Studio in its Series A Preferred Stock financing
  • Represented Comma, Inc. (developer of autonomous driving technology) in preferred stock financing led by Andreesen Horowitz
  • Represented LucidSight in multiple preferred stock financings
  • Represented Findigs in its Series A Preferred Stock financing
  • Represented Tombot in SAFE and equity financings
  • Represented LunaPBC in SAFE, convertible note, and preferred stock financings
  • Represented Tetrate.io in convertible note and preferred stock financings
  • Represented Cardea Bio in multiple convertible note and preferred stock financings

Representative Fund Formation Matters

  • Represented sponsor of investment fund focused on the development of domestic energy
  • Represented sponsor of investment fund focused on the acquisition and redevelopment of assisted living facilities
  • Represented sponsors of dozens of real estate funds with respect to fund formation and management
  • Represented sponsor of one of the first comingled funds investing solely in cryptocurrencies
  • Member of team representing one of the world’s largest private equity fund sponsors in forming and managing multiple multi-billion dollar funds across three strategies (principally related to distressed real estate), as well as its international multi-feeder co-investment funds for employees
  • Represented global asset manager in the creation of its first closed-end commingled investment fund (focused on natural resources)
  • Represented sponsors of several venture capital funds ranging from $10 million to $250 million with respect to fund formation and management
  • Represented sponsors of multiple angel funds with respect to fund formation and management
  • Represented public pension funds and institutional investors in billions of dollars of private equity investments, often as lead investor with investments of up to $500 million
  • Represented public pension fund investing $250 million in a midstream agricultural assets fund-of-one
  • Represented public pension fund investing $425 million public infrastructure fund-of-one. Responsibilities included assisting in the negotiation and drafting of term sheet and operating agreement
  • Represented public pension fund investing $190 million in a United States agricultural fund-of-one
Credentials
Education

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2012

B.A., Brigham Young University, 2009

Admissions

California

Utah (inactive)

Washington (inactive)