Overview
David Ambler is a partner in the Corporate practice at Paul Hastings, based in the Palo Alto office. He represents startups and early-stage companies through all stages of their growth, including early financing, pre-IPO capital raising, IPOs and beyond. He also advises public companies in their periodic reporting and capital markets and other corporate transactions. He frequently works with leading underwriters like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, as well as top venture funds. His industry experience spans consumer internet, consumer hardware, enterprise software, digital health, AI, cybersecurity and various technology and life sciences sectors.
He has been involved in hundreds of private company financings and over 60 IPOs and other public offerings for companies such as AvidXchange, Corsair, Datto, DocuSign, Enjoy Technologies, Forty Seven, PagerDuty, Ping Identity, Procore, Rubrik, ServiceNow and Unity Software.
Recognized by his peers, he was named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2022 and 2023. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, he was a partner at another international law firm. He previously worked in the performance automotive industry in both sales and business development.
Recognitions
- Super Lawyers, “Rising Star” (2022-2023)
Education
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 2012
- Santa Clara University, M.B.A.
- Santa Clara University, B.A. (Philosophy), 2004
Representations
Representative private company transactions include:
- Arctic Wolf in its $401 million financing led by Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital, with participation from Viking Global Investors, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and funds advised by Neuberger Berman
- DataStax in its $115 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Obsidian Security in its $90 million financing led by Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and IVP
- Sambanova Systems in its $676 million financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2
- SiFive in its $175 million financing led by Coatue Management
- ThoughtSpot in its $100 million financing led by March Capital and joined by Lightspeed Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Fidelity, Capital One Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, and GIC
Representative investor clients include:
- Benchmark Capital
- BVP Forge - Bessemer Venture Partners
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Unusual Ventures
Recent public transactions include advising:
- The underwriters in AvidXchange’s $674 million IPO
- Procore Technologies in its $678 million IPO
- Unity Software in its $1.49 billion IPO
- The underwriters in Ping Identity’s:
- $188 million IPO
- $204 million follow-on offering
- $287 million follow-on offering
- PagerDuty in its:
- $250 million IPO
- $288 million convertible notes offering
- Enjoy Technologies in its $250 million SPAC Merger
- The underwriters in Datto’s $600 million IPO
- The underwriters in Corsair Gaming’s $238 million IPO
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.