SARA ZOKAEI focuses her practice on advising emerging growth companies and venture capital investors, particularly in the enterprise software, fintech, AI, digital health, e-commerce, and property tech industries, on a broad range of corporate matters across the full company life cycle. She also provides ongoing advice to public companies, particularly across the life sciences, autonomous security, and technology sectors.
In Sara’s private company advising, she regularly represents companies and investors in corporate governance and equity matters, priced equity rounds from pre-seed and seed through late-stage series financings, convertible note and SAFE financings, and secondary transactions. In her public company advising, she provides ongoing counseling on SEC reporting, corporate governance, and financing and public offering transactions.
Before joining Sidley, Sara earned her J.D. from the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly University of California, Hastings College of the Law). She served as a research fellow at the Center for Business Law and as a student associate at UC Hastings’s Startup Legal Garage, working with startup clients on general corporate matters from incorporation through financings. She also participated in the Corporate Counsel Externship Program as an extern with Credit Karma.
Sara served as Executive Symposium Editor of Volume 73 of the Hastings Law Journal. She authored a note discussing the expansion of dispute resolution mechanisms in China in conjunction with the Belt and Road Initiative.