David Chriki

DAVID CHRIKI focuses his practice on emerging companies and venture capital.

Prior to joining Sidley, David served as a senior law clerk in the chambers of a Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, where he worked on a broad range of high-profile cases and complex transactional and corporate governance issues. He also served in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General for International Law, where he advised the Israeli government on various legal issues relating to international investment and trade regulations, and published several papers on related issues in leading journals.

David received a master’s degree in legal studies from Stanford Law School as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and participated in an innovation and entrepreneurship program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

David received his LL.M., magna cum laude, with a focus in commercial and corporate law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also received his LL.B.

• Sequence Fintech Inc., a developer of a financial router that is set to redefine how people interact with their finances, in its US$5.5 million financing round.
• BMW i Ventures as lead investor in the US$21 million financing round of Formant.io, a developer of a robotic data platform designed to offer monitoring and operations infrastructure.