Jonathan Pentzien

Practice Areas

Pre-Venture, Venture and Growth Financings

Entrepreneurs & Emerging Companies

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Governance & Strategy

Fund Portfolio Investments

Capital Markets

Career

Jon is the managing and founding partner of Gunderson Dettmer’s Singapore office. Previously based in the firm’s New York office, Jon has extensive experience advising global emerging growth technology companies throughout their lifecycle as well as acting for venture and growth equity investors on some of the largest financing rounds and M&A transactions in India and Southeast Asia.

With over 15 years of experience, Jon has advised on numerous private and public cross-border transactions in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, China, Middle East/North Africa, Europe, Australia, and the United States, including private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and U.S.-listed initial public offerings of foreign private issuers and domestic issuers. He also advises his clients on matters of corporate governance, public disclosure, and executive compensation.

A Notre Dame graduate, Jon served as an officer in the United States Navy before receiving his J.D. from Rutgers Law School with Highest Honors, after which he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Prior to joining Gunderson Dettmer, Jon practiced with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.