Jennifer Post, managing partner of the firm’s Los Angeles Office and co-chair of the emerging companies group, represents entities around the country in a wide array of financial transactions encompassing general corporate, commercial finance, and securities law.
Moving even the most complex transactions past challenges, impasses, and controversies is what drives Jennifer’s practice. She regularly represents investors, lenders, and emerging companies in venture capital investments, venture lending, M&A, general corporate, and fund formation matters. She has deep experience representing venture debt funds and other direct lenders in secured transactions involving technology, fintech, life sciences, SaaS, and consumer brands in the private credit markets. Her practice representing clients in the venture debt market is extensive and nationwide, especially representing entities where such markets are prominent, such as Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and New York.
Jennifer enjoys the intellectual stimulation of learning why a client perceives a deal or opportunity the way they do. She enjoys negotiations – with all their diversity and challenges – and works to understand the unique points of view and leverage of all involved. Always ready to offer insightful advice and provide a hands-on approach, Jennifer goes “under the hood” on each transaction to get things done. She’s known for being both tough and persistent, but also supportive, helpful, and positive. Even over an extended time on deeply complex transactions, Jennifer keeps things as light and positive as possible. She’s a partner to her clients, preferring to tell a client what can be done (rather than what cannot be done) and always pointing out strategies for success.
experience
- Continuous representation of numerous venture debt lenders in multiple transactions ranging from $5 million to $75 million in technology, SaaS, life sciences, consumer brands, and fintech companies.
- Representation of emerging fintech lender in consumer payment stream financing of $75 million.
- Representation of venture debt fund in multi-national cryptocurrency platform financing.
- Representation of management shareholders in a multi-international acquisition transaction with a publicly traded U.S. company.
- Representation of technology-based recruiting firm in its sale to major private equity platform.
- Representation of emerging agritech startup in multiple note and venture equity financings.
- Representation of emerging SaaS insurance platform in strategic alliance and sale of operating assets.
- Representation of international entertainment company in complex corporate restructuring, securities compliance, and finance matters.
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Rainbow Capital Partners, Advisory Board Member
- ProVisors, Group Leader, West Hollywood Chapter
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (by BL Rankings), 2023-2025
- Daily Journal Top Women Lawyers, 2024
- Los Angeles Business Journal Top 100 Attorneys, 2022-2023
- Los Angeles Business Journal Women of Influence: Attorneys, 2017-2022
- Los Angeles Business Journal 500 Most Influential People, 2018-2023
- Los Angeles Business Journal Most Influential Minority Attorneys in LA, 2018-2020
- Quoted, “Thompson Coburn LLP law firm encourages more Black attorneys,”
OurWeekly, November 21, 2023 - Author, “With Equity Markets Down, Venture Lending Provides Solution,”
Law360, September 8, 2023 - Quoted, “Legal Boom Nigh?”,
Los Angeles Business Journal, July 17, 2023 - Featured, “Nonbank Lenders Take Note of Venture Lending Opportunities”,
Secured Finance Network, May 4, 2023 - Interviewed, “Slump in Tech IPOs Opens Opportunities for Venture Debt and ABL Sectors,”
ABF Journal January 5, 2023 - Quoted, “A CPA’s Value: Strengthening Boards,”
California CPA Magazine, November, 2022 - Quoted, “Proposed Rule Could Push More Family Offices to Lawyer UP”
CFO Dive, May 24, 2022 - Featured, “Out and Outspoken: and Rigorous Role Model Uplifts the LGBTQ+ Community”
Brandeis University Alumnae Magazine, June 7, 2022 - Contributor, “Los Angeles times Private Equity and M&A Strategies Roundtable”
October 22, 2021 - Featured, “Creating a Mirror of the LA Community: Thompson Coburn’s First LGBTQ MP on Architecting the Future”
Law.com, August 18, 2021 - Quoted, “Here Are the Pitfalls When Allocators Make Direct Deals”
Institutional Investor, August 10, 2021 - Quoted, “Startups are ditching the ‘stay private longer’ mantra. A corporate lawyer tells us the 4 things they need to consider before going public”
Business Insider, May 17, 2021 - Quoted, “SPACs are racing against the clock to strike a deal, and some will likely have to settle for a less-than-ideal business to buy”
Business Insider, May 15, 2021 - Quoted, “Law Firms Embrace Remote Work,”
Los Angeles Business Journal, June 29, 2020
- Presenter, “Venture Debt vs. Venture Capital Financing: Non-Dilutive Loan Strategies for VC-Backed and Emerging Growth Companies,”
Strafford, March 19, 2024 - Panelist, “VC Debt Lending: How It Is Filling the Funding Gaps in the Equity and Bank Lending Markets,”
Venture Debt Conference, March 6, 2024 - Featured, “Invest In Her” Entrepreneurship Podcast,
June 2022 - Panelist, “Helping Clients Create, Build or Revise Their Board of Directors”
California CPA Society, May 2022 - Panelist, “Addressing Bias Driven Incivility”
Los Angeles County Bar Association, December 7, 2021 - Contributor, “Los Angeles Times Private Equity and M&A Strategies Roundtable”
October 18, 2021 - Panelist, “Effective Strategies Used to Transfer the Ownership of a Business,”
Exit Planning Institute Los Angeles Chapter, June 11, 2020 - Moderator, “Roundtable on Cryptocurrency & Cybersecurity”
Thompson Coburn hosted business event, October 29, 2019 - Panelist, “Technology and Business in Southern California,”
Los Angeles Business Journal Chief Technology and Information Officer Awards Dinner, April, 2019 - Panelist, “Women in Tech & Entrepreneurship,”
General Assembly, February 19, 2019 - Moderator, “Economic Markets & Access to Capital,”
Los Angeles Business Journal Economic Forecast & Trends Breakfast, January 22, 2019
When I’m not deep inside a transaction with my client, look for me on the tennis court. My bucket list includes seeing all the Grand Slams in sequence.