Jesse P. Sisgold
Associate - Los Angeles

jsisgold@vallemakoff.com
Phone: 310-476-0300
Fax:  310-476-0333

Jesse Sisgold worked in the Los Angeles office of Heller Ehrman LLP from 2003 until 2008 before joining Valle Makoff LLP. While a junior lawyer at Heller, Los Angeles Magazine named Jesse a “Rising Star.”

Jesse’s practice focuses on complex commercial and intellectual property disputes. He also has experience in antitrust, entertainment, First Amendment and securities law.

Representative matters include:

• Successfully represented several financial institutions in significant deal-related negotiations and/or disputes, including Ares Management, Credit Suisse Securities, Washington Mutual Bank and Bank of America;
• Managing a brand protection program and obtaining multi-million dollar summary judgments for a Fortune 500 consumer product manufacturer in trademark infringement cases;
• Successfully representing Yahoo! Inc. in a merger-related government investigation; and
• Co-counseling a Ninth Circuit case with the ACLU to successfully remove a sexual orientation discrimination policy from government-funded foster care and adoption organization.

In addition to his litigation experience, Jesse has negotiated a variety of corporate transactions including entity formation, operating, stock and asset purchase agreements, intellectual property licenses, and executive and artist agreements.

Active in public interest matters, Jesse serves as the Chair of the ACLU Next Board, Director on the Board of SOL-LA Music Academy, and Chair of the Board for Angels at Risk, a non-profit offering substance abuse counseling to at-risk teenagers and their families.  While in law school, Jesse taught “Street Law” civics to low-income teenagers.

Jesse earned his J.D. cum laude in 2002 from University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he received the Legal Writing American Jurisprudence Award and Moot Court Best Oral Argument Honors. He received his B.A. in economics with Provost Honors and a minor in theater from University of California, San Diego in 1998.