Trevor J Chaplick

Practice Areas

Corporate

Emerging Technology

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Life Sciences & Medical Technology

Capital Markets

Career

Trevor J. Chaplick represents technology and growth companies, private equity firms, and venture capital funds in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, as well as in general corporate and securities law matters.

Trevor has represented numerous private and public companies in merger and acquisition transactions, including Access Health; Actel Corporation; ACGO Corporation; Cypress Semiconductor; Glodon Software Co. Ltd.; InfoSpace; Intellon Corporation; Luna Innovations; Microchip Technology; Otsuka Pharmaceutical; Overhead Door Corporation; and U.S. Web. Investors Trevor has represented in structuring private equity and venture capital financings include: Accuitive Medical Ventures; Andreessen Horowitz; Cargill Ventures; Carlyle Ventures; Core Capital; Draper Atlantic; Inflection Point Venture Partners; International Finance Corporation; Institutional Venture Partners; New Enterprise Associates; Novak Biddle Venture Partners; Paladin Capital Group; Storm Ventures; Valhalla Partners; Warburg Pincus; and WWC Capital.

Trevor has broad international experience, having structured public and private acquisitions and investments in many countries, including Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. He has represented numerous companies in raising capital from institutional investors across many industries, including software, communications, the Internet, alternative energy, entertainment and media, semiconductors, health care, medical devices, and biotechnology.

Trevor has significant capital markets experience. He has represented issuers, underwriters, and investors in numerous public offerings, including @Home; Access Health; Anergen; Cell Genesys; CellNet Data Systems; ChannelAdvisor Corporation; Clarify; Coinstar; Eagle Test Systems; GlobeSpan; Intellon Corporation; Luna Innovations; Maxygen; Rudolph Technologies; SmartDisk; and Ventana Medical Systems. He has represented the following underwriters in securities offerings: Banc of America; Deutsche Banc Securities; Friedman Billings Ramsey; Goldman Sachs; Lehman Brothers; Merrill Lynch; Morgan Stanley; and Robertson Stephens.

Trevor was previously a partner with Proskauer Rose and was managing partner of its Washington, D.C. office from 2007 to 2014. Prior to joining Proskauer, Trevor was a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), where he founded and was managing partner of the firm’s first East Coast offices in Washington, D.C. and Virginia from 2000 to 2007. Before founding such offices, he spent many years practicing law in Silicon Valley with WSGR, where he also served on the firm's Operations and Strategy Committees. Trevor began his legal career at Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco. He is a CPA in the state of Virginia and worked in the financial services group of Arthur Andersen LLP in Washington, D.C. from 1985 to 1987.

Concentrations:

Merger and acquisition transactions

Public and private acquisitions / investments

Initial public offerings and secondary offerings

Cross-border transactions

Professional Memberships

Counsel to the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1990-1991

Chairman, Board of Directors, Venture Capital Fund of the State of Maryland, 2003-2012

Board of Directors, Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, 2010-2011

Board of Directors, Bridgeborn, Inc., 2007–2011

Board of Directors, Washington, DC Chapter of TiE, the not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs, 2008-2010

Board of Trustees, Fairfax County Public Schools Education Foundation, 2003-2004

Member, American Bar Association

Member, District of Columbia Bar Association

Member, Virginia State Bar Association

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Corporate / M&A & Private Equity, 2010-2022

Personal

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1990; Editor-in-Chief, Virginia Tax Review, 1989-1990 .

B.S., with distinction, McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, 1985; Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society; Raven Honor Society; Awarded Lawn Room.