Gregory R. Kim
Attorney
Location / Bay Area
Phone / (650) 472-3675
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Hawaii
Gregory Kim is a Partner at VLP and focuses on building emerging companies and capital sources. Greg practices in the areas of corporate and securities laws, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, joint ventures and licensing. His clients include companies ranging from startup companies, to emerging companies to mature companies, joint ventures and investors. Greg received a BS in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University in 1979 and earned his law and MBA degrees at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, in 1983, where he served as Articles Editor of the California Law Review. Following his graduation, Greg served a one year appointment as Law Clerk for the Honorable Herbert Y. C. Choy, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then began his career in 1984 as a corporate lawyer at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco. Greg returned to Hawaii in 1988, continuing his corporate practice at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, where he was named partner in 1991. In October 2004, Greg founded Vantage Counsel LLC to build and expand the virtual law firm model. Vantage Counsel focused its practice on the representation of emerging growth companies.
Greg is an active participant in various community groups and is committed to diversifying the economy and supporting emerging and small businesses. He is a founding board member of HiBEAM, an accelerator program for emerging technology companies located in Hawaii, and served as a founding director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii. Greg also serves on the advisory boards of the University of Hawaii Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) and Chaminade University, and teaches entrepreneurship and business classes at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law and the Chaminade University Hogan School of Business. Greg serves as an entrepreneur in residence at Punahou School and professional in residence at PACE. Greg is also the founder of the Small Business Law Corps, a nonprofit corporate law firm that provides pro bono business law services to small business owners, and Tech Transfer Partners, focusing on technology company spinouts from the University of Hawaii Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development.
Greg is an active member of the Hawaii State Bar Association, having served as the Chair of its Business Law Section and chairing its legislative work group. Greg is the principal draftsperson of the Hawaii Business Corporation Act and an editor-in-chief of the Hawaii Corporations Law Manual.
Greg is recognized as a leading corporate attorney by Best Lawyers of America and Chambers USA.