Our Team
Meet Our Attorneys
George Grellas
Founding Counsel
For over 25 years, George has practiced business, corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law in Silicon Valley and has served as a business and corporate lawyer for a broad range of startup and business…
Dhaivat Shah
Partner
Dhaivat H. Shah has spent his entire private sector career representing public and private companies, their executives and their boards in complex litigation, regulatory investigations and internal investigations.
David Siegel
Partner
David is an unusual startup lawyer in having done sophisticated legal work in both transactional and litigation matters: he is an accomplished startup lawyer and litigator who has extensive experience…
Mital Makadia
Partner
Mital is a partner at Grellas Shah. Her practice is focused on representing technology startups and startup founders . She provides counsel on a variety of corporate and transactional matters and negotiates…
Titus Lin
Associate Attorney
Titus is a transactional associate with Grellas Shah. A member of the firm since 2011, Titus has represented domestic and international clients on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including securities compliance…
Erin Adrian
Associate Attorney
Erin Adrian is an associate attorney at Grellas Shah, where she focuses on commercial litigation. Ms. Adrian has handled a wide range of complex litigation matters, including complex contract, copyright, trade secret…
Chris Civil
Associate Attorney
Chris Civil is an associate attorney at Grellas Shah, where he focuses on commercial litigation and trademark law. Chris has handled a wide range of litigation matters, including disputes involving complex contract, , trademark, copyright, trade secret, domain names…
Katherine Hart
Associate Attorney
Katherine Hart is a transactional associate with Grellas Shah. A member of the firm since 2017, Katherine advises clients on a range of transactional matters, including corporate governance, equity financings…
Da Zhuang
Associate Attorney
Da Zhuang is a transactional associate with Grellas Shah. A member of the firm since 2019, Da advises clients on a wide range of transactional matters, including equity financings, corporate governance, M&A, technology transactions…
Holly Carmichael
Of Counsel
Holly is of counsel with the firm. With 25 years of experience serving multinational clients. Holly has extensive experience in corporate international tax, including advising on business acquisitions and dispositions, joint…
Paul Horstmann
Of Counsel
Paul is of counsel with the firm. As a patent attorney who focuses on patent prosecution, Paul has been on the front lines of patenting technological advancements in computers and electronics for nearly a quarter century. He has worked on behalf…
Asma Bashir
Of Counsel
Asma is of counsel with the firm. Ms. Bashir has almost a decade of experience as an immigration and naturalization attorney, focusing on employment (H-1b, L-1A, L-1B, O-1, EB-1A, EB-1B, EB-1C, EB-2/EB-3, TN, E-2, PERM…