Larry W. Nishnick

Partner

US Vice Chair, Corporate Practice
Managing Partner, San Diego Office

Emaillarry.nishnick@us.dlapiper.com

About

Areas of FocusConsumer Goods, Food and Retail Corporate Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Healthcare Life Sciences Media, Sport and Entertainment Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Markets and Public Company Advisory Technology

Bar admissionsCalifornia

EXPERIENCE

Larry's experience is extensive with deals ranging from multi-billion dollar acquisitions to angel investments. His recent experience includes the following representation:

Outside corporate and securities counsel to public companies
The Coca-Cola Company in its multi-billion dollar acquisition of BODYARMOR and various other acquisitions, divestitures and investments, including in the beverage, milk, sports and technology industries
QUALCOMM in various strategic acquisitions and as primary outside counsel for governance and securities matters
ViaSat in its divestiture of assets and simultaneous investment of a private company acquiring a digital signal processing (DSP) business
Cohu in various complex equity and debt financing transaction, M&A counsel and public company corporate and securities counsel.
Quantum-Si as primary public company advisory, capital markets and corporate governance cousnel
NuVasive in various strategic acquisitions and convertible debt financings
Maxwell Technologies in an exchange offer sale to Tesla
ResMed as outside corporate securities and governance counsel
Quipt Home Medical in a private equity led take-private transaction
Cowen and Canaccord Genuity as joint-lead bookrunners for the Greenlane Holding initial public offering (IPO) and various follow-on offerings and financing transactions
Jack-in-the-Box as securities and corporate governance counsel
Histogen in its reverse IPO and multiple financing transactions, including registered direct, PIPE and public offerings
BioFire Diagnostics sale to bioMérieux, including various ITAR, CFIUS and Department of Defense related matters
Investors in a sale of a minority interest in a Major League Baseball franchise
QuickFire Networks, a video encoding company, in its sale to Facebook
Daasity as outside general counsel and its venture capital led preferred stock financings
A vast number of emerging growth companies in the various industries

Awards

Education

J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, 1998
cum laude

B.A., Economics, Washington & Jefferson College, 1995
cum laude

Bylines

SEC adopts changes to "accredited investor" definition, September 1, 2020

Seminars

Author, DLA Piper Client Alert: SEC proposes changes to "accredited investor" definition
Panelist, "Proxy Statement Interactive Seminar, Corporate Governance Communications Strategies for Shareholder Engagement"
Panelist, "SEC Hot Topics Institute: Compensation"
Moderator, "Annual SEC Briefing: Corporate Governance Update"
Instructor, "DLA Piper: At What Cost"
Instructor, "EvoNexus Startup Week – Capitalizing Your Start-up Company"

Media Mentions

Mentioned, "Kingswood, Forager to Take Quipt Private," The Deal, December 15, 2025
Mentioned, "Investment Firms Nab Quipt Home Medical In $260M Deal," Law360, December 15, 2025

Prior Experience

Before joining DLA Piper, Larry served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary to telecommunications company and as a general counsel at a specialty pharmaceuticals company. Based on these in-house executive positions, he gained valuable experience on day-to-day legal and business matters while managing worldwide legal operations and was responsible for worldwide business development, corporate services and operations.

Thanks to both his in-house and outside counsel experience, Larry approaches his practice as a business partner with his clients and is often viewed as an extension of his clients' existing management teams.