Elite Advocacy for Technology Founders, C-Suite Executives, and Senior Leaders

Nassiri & Jung LLP represents technology founders, C-level executives, professionals, and senior leaders facing high-stakes separations, investigations, boardroom conflicts, and career-defining disputes across California and national innovation hubs. When significant equity, professional reputation, or personal integrity is on the line, we provide strategic trial advocacy, unvarnished business candor, and comprehensive client care. We operate on behalf of professionals, founders, and executives; we maintain independence without corporate defense or institutional conflicts.

The Nassiri & Jung Advantage

Mastery of the Institutional Playbook: We spent years inside elite corporate litigation practices. We know how boards, HR departments, and defense firms calculate risk and settlement figures because we operated within those systems. We anticipate their moves before they make them, and turn this institutional experience into an executive’s advantage.

Shielding Executives in High-Stakes Inquiries: When institutions initiate internal investigations, they often seek to manufacture pretextual for cause terminations. We defend executives, professionals, and founders during corporate investigations.

Pre-Separation Engagement: You do not have to wait for a termination to secure elite advocacy. By advising you while you are still in role, we protect your rights, acceleration milestones, and preserve clean exits.

The Nassiri & Jung approach

Tailored, Not Generic: Our clients consistently praise our customized solutions. We evaluate the unique facts of your dispute or departure and craft legal strategy based on your circumstances.
“Controlled Zen” and Dedicated Advocacy: High-stakes career transitions carry intense personal, financial, and emotional strain. We provide calm, structured guidance that protects your health, family, and future marketability alongside your legal recovery.
Individual Executive or Founder Focus: We do not generally defend corporations. We fight exclusively for the individual leader.

If you are an executive, founder, or senior professional facing a separation, retaliation, an internal investigation, or an equity dispute, timing is critical.

Disclaimer: Testimonials and endorsements do not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of your legal matter. Results portrayed depend on the unique legal and factual characteristics of each individual case.

CORE PRACTICE AREAS

1. C-Suite Separation & Executive Severance Negotiations and Litigation

Senior executive transitions involve complex governance agreements, equity compensation, and enterprise-level risk. We structure and negotiate exits for chief executives (CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, COOs, CLOs/GCs, CCOs), managing directors, professors, politicians, professionals, public figures, and partners when internal alignment fractures.

Exit Package & Severance: Negotiating enhanced severance multiples, extended option exercise windows, transition advisory agreements, and mutual non-disparagement covenants that protect future marketability.
Good Reason Resignations: Structuring constructive termination exits under executive employment agreements when responsibilities are materially diminished, reporting structures change, or incentive compensation is compromised.
Reputational Protection: Insulating executives against hostile board or company narratives, public disparagement, and retaliatory internal inquiries.

2. Executive Whistleblower & Retaliation

Senior executives and professions (including attorneys) often identify regulatory non-compliance, internal irregularities, or data security breaches before anyone else. When boards or executive committees retaliate against leaders who raise concerns, we employ statutory protections to protect them and vindicate their rights.

3. Founder Disputes & Equity Protection

Late-stage startups and venture-backed companies routinely utilize governance maneuvers to squeeze out co-founders, disenfranchise minority shareholders, or cancel unvested shares. We defend founders against boardroom coups to preserve the enterprise value they built.

Bad-Faith For Cause Defense: Challenging pretextual board terminations engineered to trigger stock repurchase rights at par value or force the cancellation of unvested equity.
Acceleration & Change-of-Control Disputes: Enforcing single- and double-trigger equity acceleration covenants during mergers, recapitalizations, or forced founder removals.
Board Oppression & Fiduciary Litigation: Holding venture capital or private equity directors, majority shareholders, and hostile boards accountable under Delaware and California corporate law for self-dealing and breaches of fiduciary duty.

4. Executive Mobility & Trade Secrets Defense

California maintains the strongest statutory protections for employee mobility in the United States, yet departing founders and executives routinely face aggressive, bad-faith litigation designed to stall their next venture. We structure clean departures and defend against anticompetitive corporate overreach.

5. Shareholder Representation & Corporate Control Disputes

In closely held corporations, partnership dissolutions, and post-acquisition earn-outs, majority factions frequently manipulate financial metrics to suppress executive payouts. We litigate complex corporate control disputes across California courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Earn-Out & Milestone Recoveries: Litigating disputes where acquiring enterprises artificially depress performance metrics or divert resources to avoid paying earned merger consideration.
Minority Shareholder Squeeze-Outs: Representing ousted equity holders in derivative actions, books-and-records inspection demands, and appraisal proceedings.
Partnership Dissolutions: Resolving contentious splits among general partners, venture capital funds, and professional practices.