Ashwin Gokhale helps public and private technology companies navigate through technology transactions and licensing matters. He draws on his prior experience leading a legal team at a high-growth venture-backed company and his business experience working for various other startups in Silicon Valley to provide practical solutions to the legal and business challenges his clients face.
He regularly negotiates and advises technology companies on a range of intellectual property licensing and other commercial transactions, including agreements for software and hardware development and licensing, manufacturing and distribution, advertising and marketing, patent licensing, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investments.
Ashwin counsels a broad range of clients—from large public companies to emerging companies—across the tech sector, including AI and machine learning, AdTech and digital media, web services, e-commerce, EdTech, healthcare IT, software, computer hardware and alternative energy.
- HID Global Corporation in the sale of its Citizen Identity Solutions business to TOPPAN
- AstroForge in its US$40 million Series A financing
- Broadcom in the US$4 billion sale of its End-User Computing Division (dba Omnissa) to KKR
- Fielmann Group in its acquisition of Shopko Optical
- HID Global Corporation in its acquisition of Vizzia Technologies
- Hyundai Motor Company in its multi-year, strategic partnership with Waymo for the integration of Waymo’s fully autonomous technology into Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 SUV
- Liberty Media in its US$313 million acquisition of more than 90% of QuintEvents
- Lucid Motors in its long-term strategic technology partnership with Aston Martin for access to Lucid’s proprietary electric vehicle technology and the integration and supply of Lucid’s state-of-the-art electric vehicle powertrain and battery systems
- Metamind in licensing agreements and the company’s acquisition by Salesforce.com
- Mitsui & Co. in the US$300 million equity funding of Quantinuum
- Pilot AI Labs in various agreements relating to its machine learning-based computer vision technology
- Samsung Display in its US$218 million acquisition of eMagin Corporation
- Samsung Electronics in its joint venture with Lennox for the sale of ductless HVAC systems in the United States and Canada
- Spectro Cloud in its US$75 million Series C financing led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs
- Toyota Motor North America in various licensing and technology agreements
Languages
- Marathi
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- University of San Francisco, J.D.: 2006, Member, University of San Francisco Law Review
- University of California at Berkeley, B.A: 2000
Professional Activities
Adjunct Professor
- University of San Francisco School of Law, “Transactional Skills” (Spring 2025)
Externships
- The Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Author
- “Finality of Conviction, the Right to Appeal, and Deportation under Montenegro v. Ashcroft: The Case of the Dog That Did Not Bark,” 40 University of San Francisco Law Review 241 (2005)
Awards
- Named to the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” list by Lawdragon (2024, 2025)
- Recognized for Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing and Transactions in The Legal 500 US (2016–2018)
- Recognized as a "Rising Star" in the technology transactions category in Northern California Super Lawyers (2013–2018)