George Grellas & Associates

For over 25 years, George has practiced business, corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law in Silicon Valley and has served as a business and corporate lawyer for a broad range of start

George Grellas founded and heads a 4-attorney business and corporate law firm in Silicon Valley with a specialty emphasis in early-stage technology startup companies.

For over 25 years, George has practiced business, corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law in Silicon Valley and has served as a business and corporate lawyer for a broad range of startup and business clients, from sole proprietorships to leading companies in the high tech field. He has concentrated on helping entrepreneurs, founders, executives, and the companies they own and operate, in all types of industries. With respect to the tech field in particular, George has worked with start-ups in depth at every stage of their development: formation, founder arrangements, intellectual property protection, funding, technology licensing, strategic alliances, and acquisition. George functions as a key strategic adviser to start-up businesses and brings substantial experience and depth to that role. He has a direct style that appeals to entrepreneurs as well as a credibility that serves clients well in negotiations.

Atypically for transactional lawyers, George is also a skilled business and corporate litigation attorney who is experienced in corporate, contract, employment, fraud, trade secret, trademark, unfair competition, corporate dissolution, and other business lawsuits of all types. George began his career as a full-time business, corporate, and commercial litigator in San Francisco and has continued to offer skilled business litigation services to his startup and small business clients over the years in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and the broader San Francisco Bay Area. From contract damages lawsuits to business fraud lawsuits to injunction lawsuits, George has handled a broad range of such business lawsuits and disputes.

All this makes George highly versatile for start-up and small business transactional needs and business litigation matters. He has learned how to explain complex issues in simple terms and how to keep a strategic perspective amidst the many details involved in the matters in which he specializes. In his practice, George emphasizes long-term bonds of trust and loyalty with clients.

George received his B.A. in 1974 from the University of California at Santa Cruz with highest honors in history. He received his J.D. from the University of Santa Clara Law School in 1978, where he graduated magna cum laude and where he served as chief technical editor on the Santa Clara Law Review. George began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable William A. Ingram of the United States District Court for Northern District of California. After his federal clerkship, he served for four years as an associate attorney at the San Fran

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