Donahue Fitzgerald

Donahue Fitzgerald provides comprehensive legal services to business and non-profit entities at every stage of their lifecycle from seed, entity formation, and start-up through growth, expansion, and succession planning. With business acumen developed from decades of representing some of the world’s and the Bay Area’s most recognized companies, we create innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions for established and emerging companies on issues ranging from M&A and negotiations of venture financing and private equity transactions, copyright and trademark licensing and enforcement, and real estate transactions to litigation and dispute resolution, employment law, franchising, and global mobility and immigration. With one of the most experienced and specialized trusts and estates practices in the Bay Area, we help business owners and high net-worth individuals preserve their assets and thrive into the future. Providing pro bono legal services to make legal advice and the legal system accessible to all has been at the heart of the firm and its progressive pro bono policy for over three decades. Donahue Fitzgerald lawyers bring their talents and passions to numerous cultural, educational and non-profit organizations by volunteering and serving on their advisory and executive boards. Donahue Fitzgerald has over 50 lawyers in three Northern California offices located in Oakland, Walnut Creek, and San Rafael, and a Southern California office in Los Angeles.