Victor H. Boyajian

Victor H. Boyajian is the Global Chair of Dentons' Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice worldwide. His primary practice area is Mergers and Acquisitions.

He focuses on representing emerging growth technology companies and Fortune 500 companies, along with venture and private equity firms, in a broad array of financings and strategic transactions from Silicon Valley to Boston to New York and around the globe. He counsels senior executives, boards of directors and investment principals on a wide range of issues, including business strategy, finance, M&A, executive compensation, board governance, intellectual property and litigation strategy. He is recognised for his deep network of relationships in the tech ecosystem, and his clientele reflects a cross-section of sectors including fintech, autonomous vehicles, AI and robotics, digital health, big data and cloud, software, digital media, mobile, and internet and e-commerce.

He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law School, where he lectures on entrepreneurship and venture capital.

He has been recognised by Chambers USA as one of the leading practitioners in the sector. Under his leadership, Dentons has been ranked among the top 10 globally in venture capital deals, as reported in Pitchbook. He has also been selected as one of AlwaysOn's Power Players New York City.

His select representations include representing Operative Media in its sale to Francisco Partners; representing the management team in the auction sale of emids to New Mountain Capital by Credit Suisse; representing an industrial technology company (Edinburgh) in its sale to Microsoft; representing PayPal in its acquisition of curv (Israel), a cloud-based wallet for cryptocurrency and digital asset protection; and representing the special committee of the board of directors of Netgear in the IPO spin-out of Arlo.

Other matters include the Amber Road IPO led by Stifel and subsequent sale to E2Open in its auctioned sale; representing Octopus Ventures (London) in select venture financings in the UK and Silicon Valley; representing an Andreessen Horowitz-backed portfolio company in its acquisition of select foreign assets; representing GoodData (SF), a big data and business intelligence software platform, in select commercial tech transactions in Sydney, São Paulo and the EU; representing Thinx (New York), a consumer tech company, in its financing with Kimberly-Clark; representing Relay Ventures (SF and Toronto) in various venture financings including Bird (LA), an electric vehicle company; and representing Ride Health (New York), a SaaS-based healthcare transportation technology company, in its early-stage seed financing.

His recognition includes being listed in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law (2006–present) and Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law (2006–present); recognised by The Legal 500 for Fintech (2022) and Venture Capital and Emerging Companies (2012–present); and ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA, New Jersey, Corporate/M&A (2022).

He is a frequent speaker on the global stage, having spoken at industry conferences in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London and Berlin, among others. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Society.

He holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania (1985) and a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester (1982).