Thomas McKeever
Top rated Business & Corporate attorney in San Francisco, California
Silicon Valley Technology Law Advisors, PC
Practice areas: Business & Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property; view more
Licensed in California since: 1994
Education: Stanford Law School
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Silicon Valley Technology Law Advisors, PC
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San Francisco, CA 94104 Visit website
Working from the Silicon Valley Technology Law Advisors, PC, in San Francisco, California, Thomas McKeever is a dedicated business law attorney. With over three decades of experience in serving technology companies across all sizes, he manages matters involving mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, venture capital, real estate, management litigation, contracts and privacy law.
Throughout his career, Mr. McKeever has been a general counsel for various companies and has played a significant role in complex transactions. He led the sale of Actuate to OpenText in 2016. His immense experience in complex transactions comes from handling multiple asset sales, self-tenders, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. As a person who prioritizes communication above all, he is extremely responsive and believes in efficacy. He focuses on getting the remuneration as fast as possible and negotiating with vendors to save expenses.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, Mr. McKeever pursued legal studies at Stanford Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1994. He gained his license to practice in California in 1994 and Texas in 2020. Since starting his career in business law, he has advocated for large corporations, including Amazon, Inc., Dolby, Inc., CloudSafe LLC, Shire Biotech, LLC and CNAPS.ai.
As a current member of the State Bar of California, Mr. McKeever is committed to providing clients with business-focused, strategic advice that is tailored to their short-, medium- and long-term goals. He utilizes his combination of transactional experience and legal knowledge to confidently and clearly guide clients through corporate and intellectual property issues, delivering a suitable outcome for them.
Practice areas
Business/Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual PropertyFocus areas
Business Formation and Planning, Business Organizations, Contracts, Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, Limited Liability Companies, Partnership, Trademarks
- 30% Business/Corporate
- 40% Mergers & Acquisitions
- 30% Intellectual Property
First Admitted: 1994, California
Professional Webpage: https://www.svtechlaws.com/about
Bar / Professional Activity
- California State Bar, 1994
Videos
- In this video, technology transactions attorney Tom McKeever discusses how to improve vendor outcomes for your business and save a few bucks and lots of headaches. Vendor Contract Negotiation: Best Practices & Tricks of the Trade, 2015
Representative Clients
- CNAPS.ai
- Chalet Desserts, LLC
- Armanino Fine Foods, Inc.
- CloudSafe LLC
- Fenwick & West
- YupUp Inc.
- Chief Legal Officer of a high-profile, fast-growing company ensuring security and compliance on the public cloud for enterprise health care companies. Built appropriate process and compliance frameworks for a later-stage, venture-backed company getting ready for an IPO. Led a cross-functional team to operationalize core changes to pricing and packaging of public cloud products. Solved a difficult, longstanding limitation of liability issue, 2019.
- Versana LLC
- Sierra Technologies Inc. (Sierra.ai)
- O+A Studios
- Landscaping Inc.
- Binti, Inc.
- Shire Biotech, LLC
- ClearDATA Networks, Inc.
- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT)
- Accelo, Inc.
- DOCMATTER, INC. – San Francisco, CA Advisor to CEO and President Provide ongoing strategic and tactical legal and business advice to the CEO of a technology company reimagining medical community collaboration, 2025.
- LEGALZOOM, INC. – Austin, TX Advised company on $500,000,000 public debt offering, 2017.
- FLEX BY FENWICK/AMAZON.COM (ALEXA), APPLE, INC., DOLBY, INC., NOOGATA TECH., INC. June 2020-present: Commercial and product development (1P products & 3P partnerships—Samsung, Xiaomi, Videophone, Verizon, AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others); process development and negotiation; HIPAA, privacy & GDPR advisory for social and health care; machine learning & AI licensing.
- SHUTTERFLY INC. (NASDAQ:SFLY) Acting General Counsel, November 2015-June 2016 Responsible for the legal function of a $1B publicly traded consumer Internet company. Worked extensively on challenging activist investor/board and C-suite turnover.
- ACCELA, INC. Acting General Counsel 2017-March 2019 Responsible for the legal function of an enterprise software company focused on local and state government customers. Divested line of business through asset sale; managed investigation of potential data breach, and partner indicted for fraud. Implemented worldwide trade control, anti-corruption, & government relations compliance program. Revamped privacy policy & ensured GDPR compliance, 2017.
Special Licenses / Certifications
- Private Directors Association Certificate in Private Company Governance, 2007
Educational Background
- Bachelor’s degree, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
Industry Groups
- Corporate Services
- Hardware & Networking
- Software & IT Services
Office location for Thomas McKeever
1 Sansome Street
35th Floor PMB #2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 628-333-4864
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2026