MAX MOYER
founder
Max Moyer has spent over a decade practicing corporate law at top law firms, within a startup company and on his own, helping high growth companies, their founders, and stakeholders navigate every important stage of growth from inception to exit. Max focuses on venture capital and private financing, startup and high growth company representation, investor counsel, mergers and acquisitions, and day to day general corporate and contract work. With experience serving as COO in a startup company, he has a key business perspective that helps him "quarterback" client teams making important legal decisions.
Max was a member of the executive team at Windpact, Inc., and previously practiced law at Cooley LLP and Holland & Knight LLP. Max earned his JD from Vanderbilt University Law School as well as a Law and Business certificate from the Owen School of Management. Homer "Max" Moyer is a member of the Virginia State Bar.
Elias Kwon
corporate
Elias’ practice specializes in the representation of disruptive emerging and startup companies from various industries ranging from life science, technology and digital media. Elias has worked from day one with venture capital / growth equity firms and their portfolio companies as well as venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and general corporate governance matters. As a second-generation immigrant from a family of small business entrepreneurs, Elias has a hardcoded drive to help his clients achieve their goals.
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Prior to Triumph, Elias practiced law at Lowenstein Sandler LLP in New York. Elias earned his JD from Duke University School of Law and is a member of the New York State Bar.
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Isaiah Deporto-Plick
corporate
Isaiah provides strategic and practical counsel to dozens of entrepreneurs and growing companies in a variety of technology sectors. He regularly serves as an outside general counsel for his startup clients, and has extensive experience with a wide variety of transactions, including:
• Corporate formations, employment agreements and equity incentive plans; • SAFE and convertible note fundraising transactions; • Venture financing transactions; • Mergers and Acquisitions
Before joining Triumph, Isaiah worked for various startups and big tech companies. Isaiah started his career at O’Melveny before joining Fenwick & West. Isaiah is also a micro-VC and angel investor in early-stage startups founded and led by underrepresented founders. Isaiah is a member of the California State Bar and Washington State Bar.
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Diana Kim
corporate
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Diana's practice in the emerging companies and venture capital space is wide-ranging but tailored to the needs of each client. Among her many experiences, she focuses on company formation and governance, debt and series financings, and mergers and acquisitions.
Diana previously practiced at Cadwalader, WIckersham & Taft LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP in New York and New Jersey, respectively. Diana attended Duke University School of Law where she earned her LLM in International and Comparative Law and her JD.
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NICOLE KIM
partner - tech transactions
Nicole is an experienced technology transactions and commercial counsel who applies extensive business and legal expertise to provide corporate legal strategy and advice. She possesses extensive experience structuring and negotiating contracts and policies, including SaaS, Licensing, Services, Data Protection agreements, EULAs, and Privacy Policies (in compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA). She has worked with companies at all different stages, from startups to publicly traded companies across industries, including government, financial, advertising and marketing, health, retail, and the metaverse. Most recently she’s worked as General Counsel and Vice President of Finance and Administration at a high-growth healthcare technology company.
Nicole has been honored for "Outstanding Excellence and Dedication to Her Profession and the Achievement of Women" by the National Association of Professional Women. Nicole earned her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University and her JD/MBA, magna cum laude, from University at Buffalo School of Law and School of Management. She is a member of the New York and New Jersey state bars, and the Federal District courts of EDNY, SDNY, and District of New Jersey.
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ELIZABETH TASKER
tech transactions
Educated at Oxford, McGill, City University of New York and University of Denver, Elizabeth has an MBA and Juris Doctorate. Elizabeth has 30 years’ corporate law experience negotiating complex transactions (including M&A), IT software sales and purchasing agreements, corporate governance, HR and risk management for Fortune 500 companies. Elizabeth’s professional contributions have proven to consistently mitigate risk, increase value and deliver timely results. She has worked at Gartner Group, First Data, CenturyLink and Boeing, serving as a leader in legal strategy, transactions and program execution.
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Elizabeth is active in philanthropy for the music industry and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Donna Oliva
tech transactions.
Donna Oliva is an attorney with big law firm experience who has also been a successful technology entrepreneur and startup company advisor. She received her BS in Accounting from NYU, and her JD/MBA at Boston University. Donna started her legal career at LeBeouf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae in New York City, and has also worked as an attorney with Loeb & Loeb and Cox, Castle & Nicholson in Los Angeles. Donna has always been involved with the newest and most challenging technologies, including blockchain, web and mobile apps, and enterprise software systems. She specializes in closing winning deals with major customers and partners when representing smaller technology companies. Her expertise includes initiating, drafting, and negotiating technology transactions and commercial agreements such as technology licensing and partnership agreements, vendor, consulting, and marketing agreements, as well as other commercial agreements. She currently resides and is licensed to practice law in New York.
Paul Terry
tech transactions.
Paul has served in a range of roles, from General Counsel to COO to Head of Sales and Partnerships. This means he brings practical and pragmatic hands-on experience in helping technology companies achieve outsized results. He has worked on a wide range of technology and commercial agreements - SaaS, PaaS, services, hardware, partnerships, sales, marketing, OEM - with a high success rate of closing for F500 companies, mid-market companies and startups across all markets, commercial, government and international.
Previously, Paul worked at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman followed by a series of senior level roles, including a senior legal role, BD, Strategy and Operations roles, with a software company (Blackboard), ultimately helping Blackboard grow from $50M to $700M in revenue.
Paul earned a JD from George Washington University’s National Law Center and is a member of DC bar.
Joy Lloyd
corporate paralegal
Joy Lloyd brings over 35 years of legal experience with an extensive focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, securities compliance, and contract preparation. Joy has provided services to international, national and local law firms in Denver and New York City, including four Am Law top 100 firms. She also held an in-house position with a publicly traded oil and gas company.
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Originally a Colorado native, Joy worked for over five years with international law firms in New York City, where she specialized in emerging growth companies, private company, cross-border securities transactions, and public securities offerings. Since returning to Denver in 2012, Joy’s focus has been primarily in the areas of corporate governance, M&A transactions, and securities law.
