Jeffrey M. Weiner is a Partner at Foundation Law Group representing companies and individuals in general business and securities law matters, mergers and acquisitions, and business financing and technology transactions.

In general business and securities matters, Jeff acts as primary outside counsel for companies, providing general ongoing representation and counsel on day-to-day as well as strategic matters. In M&A matters, Jeff represents acquiring companies, target companies, and investors, with transaction values up to about $1 billion. In business financing and technology transactions, Jeff represents investors and companies in venture capital and other private equity transactions, as well as in securities offerings and technology outsourcing and intellectual property licensing transactions. During his career he has advised many public and private companies, as well as entrepreneurs building businesses in a variety of industries.

Jeff began his career as a corporate lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York, where he was trained by one of America’s leading securities lawyers who, among other noteworthy deals, helped a legendary financial services industry executive create Citigroup. At Willkie, Jeff was a founding member of the firm’s takeover team, working on friendly and hostile tender offers, as well as proxy fights and other M&A transactions, while also authoring or co-authoring articles on a variety of M&A and securities law subjects. Jeff’s legal experience also includes working on numerous public and private securities offerings, both as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel.

For more than a decade, Jeff taught legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions in the Mergers and Acquisitions Executive Education Program at UCLA’s graduate school of management, The Anderson School. He also authored “Due Diligence in M&A Transactions: A Conceptual Framework”, published in Business Due Diligence Strategies (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore), for which he received a Burton Award for best legal writing in “plain English.”  He is also listed in Southern California Super Lawyers for mergers and acquisitions.

Before joining Foundation Law Group, Jeff was a partner at Steptoe LLP for nearly 20 years and prior to Steptoe, he was a partner at DLA Piper, both in Los Angeles.

Jeff received his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. He received his BA from UCLA, where he was the first Departmental Scholar in political science. Jeff is admitted to practice in both California and New York.