Jason R. Jones

Overview

Jason Jones is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office.

Areas of Practice

Jason 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