Gregory C. Smith is the founding partner of Woodside Counsel, PC, a boutique law firm in the silicon Valley focused on the representation of emerging growth companies. He was a partner for over a decade in the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He has extensive experience representing start-up and emerging growth companies as well as underwriters, financial advisors and venture capitalists. Mr. Smith received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1985, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.