Wayland Brill
Co-founder and Principal
Wayland M. Brill, Esq.
Enterprise Law Group, Inc.
750 Menlo Ave., Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Office: 1-650-462-4700
Mobile: 1-650-888-2048
Skype: wayland.brill
Wayland M. Brill, Esq.
Wayland Brill was born and raised in Palo Alto and educated at Stanford University during the emergence of Silicon Valley. He knows the Valley. He has focused his entire legal career in the Valley. And he continues to make a positive difference to his business clients.
Wayland is co-founder with Nelson Crandall of Enterprise Law Group, Inc., based in Silicon Valley. The firm serves domestic and foreign clients, startups, public and privately held technology and non-technology companies, founders and investors. Wayland also advises foreign companies on legal aspects of doing business in the U.S.
Wayland’s decades of experience and life-long immersion in California’s business community equip him to provide exceptional counsel to his clients.
Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Preeminent™* Peer Review Rated
Stanford University
BA, Philosophy
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
JD, Law
Writing and Speaking
Wayland speaks to professional and business groups and writes on topics such as:
- Selling a Business
- Negotiating Letters of Intent and Term Sheets
- U.S. Market Entry for Foreign Businesses: Issues to Consider in Opening a Branch Office or Subsidiary
- “Flipping Up”—Moving a Foreign Business to the United States
- Legal Issues to Consider When Starting a Business
Organizations
EM-Lyon Business School, Programme Laureats, Silicon Valley 2015, Co-Coordinator and Speaker
San Jose Bank Attorneys Association, Past Chairman
San Jose Museum of Art, Past Board Member
Santa Clara County Bar Association
State Bar of California
Vistage
I would not personally go through a transaction without Wayland’s oversight and expertise. I can give numerous examples of his prowess. In addition to a brilliant legal mind, he always makes it personal.
These are rare lawyers who first ask, “What’s the business objective?” They then deliver strategic advice that all CEOs, and especially start up CEOs, so urgently need in order to manage their business and goals. Once the strategy is settled, Wayland, Nelson and their team make the legal part easy.
These are my go to attorneys on US legal matters. We have worked together on commercial matters, flip-ups, venture capital financings and acquisitions. They are a very talented group and know how to navigate Silicon Valley. Their guidance and judgment have been indispensable to me over the years. They are also a lot of fun to work with, which I put a premium on.
I was introduced to the law firm to advise us on the successful sale of our European business to an American buyer, and we have worked together ever since. They now assist us and our portfolio companies on their US activities. Their knowledge of the Silicon Valley, its players and business practices is extraordinary. In addition to their advice they have been very generous in providing introductions to their talented network, which has also been very valuable to us. It is such a pleasure to work with this group.
Focus. With a big firm you bounce from lawyer to lawyer to find the right expertise. With Wayland, Nelson and their team you are always in the right hands from the beginning, so that you can sit down, explain the problem and get on to solution immediately. It is night and day easier to complete a focused project like a flip up or an international M&A transaction with them. I love working with these seasoned professionals because they have the experience, expertise and motivation to get things done properly, efficiently and expeditiously.
We have worked with these attorneys for a long time. Not only are they superb lawyers, they understand the unique dynamics of early stage technology companies and the challenges they face breaking in to the US market place. They assisted us in connection with the sale of our technology business to a US buyer, which at the time was one of the largest M&A deals involving a privately held Austrian start-up. We hope that one of our portfolio companies will break that record and that Wayland, Nelson and their team will assist us again when that happens.
We are very grateful for the superb representation we received with the sale of the company, but most importantly, we appreciated the way in which it was delivered. Thorough, professional and with a great deal of humanity. That last aspect we have always treasured in our personal and professional relationships. That certainly explains why working together was such pleasure.