Calvin J. Jonker

Mr. Jonker works on a variety of corporate matters as a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. His experience includes private equity, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments, and intellectual property, with a focus on early-stage companies.

While in law school, Mr. Jonker was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law, and received honors in a number of student competitions, including the Tulane International Baseball Arbitration Competition and the UCLA MEMES Game Day Sports Case Competition. Mr. Jonker has been published in both the PIABA Bar Journal and the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law.

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

• Business acquisition – technology/marketing: part of a team advising the buyer in its acquisition of a digital marketing business.
• Business sale – e-commerce: part of a team advising the seller in its exit from an e-commerce business.
• Startup seed-round investment: part of a team advising a technology startup as it secured seed-round venture capital and private equity funding.
• Corporate ownership buyout/dispute: part of a team advising a major corporate shareholder through a dispute with a fellow shareholder over potential claims relating to shareholder, officer, and director fraud and breach of fiduciary duties.
• Corporate debt-to-equity conversion: part of a team advising a private equity investor through a negotiated debt-to-equity conversion.