Silicon Legal Strategy Welcomes Former Accelerate Legal Associate Jacqueline Sheely

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 31, 2017) - Silicon Legal Strategy today announced that Jacqueline (Jackie) Sheely has joined the firm as an associate in its San Francisco office. Jackie's hire marks the fourth new associate to join the team in 2017.

Jackie has extensive experience advising early stage and emerging technology companies, as well as venture capital investors on a wide range of corporate and financing matters. Her experience also includes a variety of M&A transactions for small and mid-sized companies. Before joining Silicon Legal, Jackie was at Accelerate Legal where she worked closely with companies and investors on corporate and transactional matters.

Jackie received her B.A. in French and Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and School of Management.

"In just a few short years, Silicon Legal Strategy has managed to create a strong name for itself by providing quality legal services to emerging companies, entrepreneurs and other key players within the tech community," said Sheely. "Silicon Legal has populated its team with talented and passionate individuals; creating a culture unlike any law firm I have seen. I am honored to join the team and am grateful that I can be a contributing member to the firms' future success."

"Jackie's experience is outstanding and her strong dedication to entrepreneurs and client service will bring tremendous value to our client base," said Andre Gharakhanian, partner at Silicon Legal Strategy.

About Silicon Legal Strategy

Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup -- like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We face these challenges every day -- and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually "get" what entrepreneurs are going through.