Daniel Zimmermann

Partner, WilmerHale

Daniel Zimmermann is a partner in the Corporate and Transactional Department, and a member of the Corporate, Emerging Company and Venture Capital Practice Groups. He joined the firm in 2011.

Mr. Zimmermann’s practice draws on his extensive experience in complex corporate transactions and venture technology issues.

His experience includes advising emerging growth companies and technology startups on a variety of corporate governance and finance matters, as well as exit transactions such as public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Zimmermann further counsels Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms, as well as global venture and private equity funds in their portfolio investments in the US and abroad.

Daniel’s practice also has an international focus that involves the regular representation of clients in global expansions and off-shore acquisitions by US companies. From 2007 to 2008 he was seconded to a European law firm where he worked on private equity, capital markets and venture capital transactions in both London and Munich.

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"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

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Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart