Carmelo has practiced corporate and securities law throughout his 25-year legal career. Carmelo is known as a leader in the Texas venture capital and private equity community and was formerly the chairman of the San Francisco-based Brobeck Business & Technology Group. Carmelo's primary focus is on life science, software, telecommunications, semiconductor and energy sector companies. His practice includes:

• advising companies and boards of directors on corporate governance issues

• representing issuers and investment banking firms in public offerings and private financings (including PIPE, 144A and venture capital financings) and

• representing acquirors and targets in a broad variety of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and other business combination transactions.