Suzana Gadzo
Suzana advises public and private companies on diverse legal issues, including M&A transactions, venture capital financing, corporate restructures, cross-border subsidiary formations, and general corporate transactions.
Suzana Gadzo has experience preparing transaction strategies, negotiating investor-side and company-side venture capital financing documents, leading complex international transactions, and guiding her corporate clients through the process. Suzana enjoys attending board meetings and serving as the client's trusted advisor.
Suzana maintains exceptional relationships with her clients because of her unique background. Originally from former Yugoslavia (Serbia and Bosnia), Suzana was raised in West Germany, lived in multiple countries and grew up trilingual. Her diverse perspective helps Suzana appreciate her client's tenacity and perseverance.
Suzana's passions include artificial intelligence and robotics, smart-home devices, space exploration, neuroscience, healthy living, and laughing daily.
Areas of focus
Education & Credentials
Education
- DePaul University College of Law, J.D., Executive Editor, DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal
- The University of Chicago, B.A., English Language and Literature
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
Related Employment
- DLA Piper, Palo Alto, CA, Attorney, 2014-2021
Additional Languages
- German
- Bosnian
- Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic script)
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Professional Experience
Experience
- Represented a research-driven investment firm with US$1.4 billion assets under management, in various physical and life sciences investments that include companies such an artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning platform for creators, film, augmented reality, virtual reality, and game makers.*
- Represented one of the largest venture capital firms with US$20 billion in assets under management, in an array of investments that include companies such as a robotic process automation company.*
- Represented a worldwide Spanish coding academy in its Spain to Delaware conversion and subsequent series of financings.*
- Represented a maker of smart electrical panels in its formation, SAFE financing, and series financings.*
- Represented a medical technology entity for therapeutic uses of platelets in its formation and series financings.*
- Led and advised a next generation satellite, radio frequency (RF) antenna, waveguide, filter, and integrated subsystem products innovator in its subsidiary formation and entry into the U.S. market.*
- Represented a power plant equipment supplier backed by funds established by Forbes list most influential businessmen in its secured bridge financing and series financings.*
- Represented a knowledge platform that accelerates knowledge discovery to increase profitability for industrial and oil and gas companies in its multiple financings.*
- Represented the venture capital arm of a prominent Fortune 500 company, in connection with its investment in companies such as a developer of eye and gesture tracking solutions designed for mobile and wearable devices, and its investment in a developer of copper nanoparticle electronic printing.*
- Represented a prominent publicly traded company in its acquisition of a Mexico based messaging platform along with its numerous international subsidiaries.*
- Represented a smart-home security leader in its acquisition of a home security hardware and software company.*
- Represented a global growth private equity firm with an investment fund of over US$7 billion, in its multiple acquisitions to create a world-class enterprise resource planning, reporting, and corporate performance management empire.*
- Represented an industry leader in analytics and smart data warehouse solutions for optimal business intelligence in its acquisition by a Fortune 500 multinational computer technology corporation.*
*Prior experience