We are a full-service, business and technology-focused law firm located in San Diego, California, with over one hundred collective years of professional legal experience. At Catalyst, we work with clients representing a wide variety of industries, including technology, life sciences, academia, financial, media, entertainment, e-commerce, manufacturing, venture capital, information services, and retail and consumer products and services.

By offering smart legal counsel based on our deep understanding and appreciation for entrepreneurial business, Catalyst Law Group has helped a wide variety of emerging and established organizations fully realize their business objectives. Through focus, depth, and innovation, we consistently attain creative, cost-effective and timely results for our clients.

We founded Catalyst to assist emerging growth companies, start-ups, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes with their growth and development. Our experience in the areas of intellectual property, corporate, and securities law combine to provide a unique and valuable asset for our clients. In addition to representing start-ups and emerging growth clients, our attorneys have experience working as in-house counsel and executives within private industry and prestigious academic institutions, including 3M, The Salk Institute, Molecular Biosystems, Inc., and Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The Catalyst Law Group attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights), corporate finance, fund services, corporate law and governance, executive compensation, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, technology transactions, and venture capital. With significant business and deal-making experience, our attorneys often play pivotal roles in our clients’ strategic planning, corporate partnering, and financing strategies.

Diversity

At Catalyst Law Group, we take pride in who we are as individuals and as a group working toward one common goal. A critical component of our success is our commitment to diversity in the workplace and marketplace. Catalyst attorneys and support staff come from a variety of educational backgrounds, countries of origin, cultures and religions. The diversity in our group contributes to our creative approach to legal issues and decisions, and is one of the core reasons our clients choose Catalyst to serve their legal and business needs and goals.