Tim Silvestre is a partner of Strategic Law Partners, LLP. His practice currently focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private financings and corporate governance. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1984. Mr. Silvestre began private practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, one of the country's leading law firms, where he worked with SLP founder Brad Schwartz in Gibson's Los Angeles office for more than three years. Mr. Silvestre then spent nearly 12 years at Riordan & McKinzie in Los Angeles, now a part of Bingham & McCutchen, representing issuers and investors in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings and public offerings. In 2000, Mr. Silvestre joined InterPacket Networks, Inc. in Santa Monica, where he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel until he successfully negotiated the sale of InterPacket to American Tower Co. More recently, Mr. Silvestre helped establish the Santa Monica offices of two Orange County based law firms. Mr. Silvestre received his JD in 1984 from the UCLA School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the UCLA Law Review. Following law school, Mr. Silvestre served in a one year appointment as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Kelleher in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Mr. Silvestre graduated from Tufts University in 1981 with a BA in History, magna cum laude. Mr. Silvestre represents a wide variety of companies and private equity investors, including Forrest Binkley & Brown Capital Partners, Brown Equity Partners, Hollywood Capital, Anodyne Medical Device, Inc. and Row 44, Inc. Mr. Silvestre lives in Topanga Canyon with his wife and two children.