Team
The Pacific Crest team is comprised of skilled legal professionals with extensive experience across a variety of corporate transactions. Each member brings a keen understanding of today's legal markets from succeeding at some of the most well-respected and largest law firms in the world. Most importantly, each member also brings a desire to personally and efficiently serve clients. Pacific Crest takes pride in delivering the brainpower of big firm legal services in a personalized manner.
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Jake Schwarz
Jake focuses on representing emerging growth and high technology companies. He has a broad range of corporate expertise, including advising clients with respect to business formations, equity and debt financings, mergers & acquisitions, licensing and joint ventures, intellectual property protection, and employment law counseling. His clients include technology companies in industries such as software, biotechnology, semiconductors, systems integration, environmental sciences, and aeronautics as well as businesses in more traditional industries such as food, communications, educational services, and retail.
Jake was most recently a partner at K&L Gates where he was responsible for founding and building out the firm's Silicon Valley corporate practice. Prior to K&L Gates, he was a shareholder at Thoits, Love, Hershberger and McLean in Palo Alto where as part of his business law practice he headed the firm's Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets group. Jake began his legal career as a commercial litigator with the San Francisco office of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe.
Jake holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude from Claremont McKenna College. Originally from Daly City, he resides in San Francisco with his wife, daughter and son.
Jessica Rybka
Prior to joining Pacific Crest, Jessica focused her practice on general corporate and employment law matters. Her clients have ranged from large multi-national corporations to start-up technology companies in a variety of industries. During law school, Jessica worked on antitrust and consumer fraud matters at the Federal Trade Commission. Jessica is fluent in Spanish and has studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she interned with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Jessica enjoys using her business background to help companies achieve their legal goals.
Jessica holds a J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco and B.A. from Pitzer College where she competed on the Pomona-Pitzer Volleyball Team. Jessica is originally from Palo Alto and resides in San Francisco.
