Kenneth Cramer is a corporate and commercial / technology transactions lawyer with more than 35 years’ experience based in the Silicon Valley, California U.S.A. He has represented and worked for both U.S. and foreign-based public and private companies as an attorney, businessperson, and executive in a wide variety of technology businesses. Prior to joining Paradigm Counsel, Kenneth practiced in the corporate and technology transactions groups of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a 1000+ lawyer firm based in San Francisco, California with a broad, global practice, and before that, Fenwick & West, a 470+ lawyer firm based in the Silicon Valley that specializes in representing technology and life science companies and venture investors.

Kenneth has a deep understanding of the client’s perspective with his extensive in-house experience as senior counsel at Sun Microsystems and as general counsel of startups Zip2 Corporation (Internet city guide/portal acquired by Compaq/Alta Vista); Opthos Systems (all optical, dynamic DWDM switch for telecommunications networks); and Instill Corporation (supply chain and data management SaaS, acquired by iTrade Networks). His practice includes non-tech companies, but is primarily technology-based clients, including Internet (AI, applications, content and community, ecommerce, B2B and B2C); mobile apps; digital media and video games; software and SaaS; computer and networking systems, devices and components (including storage, optical, wireless and mobile); cleantech technologies and services (including solar, hydrogen, and other clean energy); health sciences/biotech, medical devices and nutraceuticals.

Kenneth earned his B.A. degree from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MBA from the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley.