Orrick Advises WHILL on $45 Million Series C Financing Round

October.03.2018

Orrick advised WHILL, Inc., the innovative company behind the award-winning, next-generation Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs), on the completion of a $45 million Series C financing round.

Headquartered in Yokohama with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Taiwan and Europe, this latest financing round will give WHILL the ability to greatly broaden its geographic footprint across other European countries through new partnerships and branches, and hiring employees to support this global growth.

A transpacific Orrick team advised WHILL, consisting of Joseph Perkins, Kevin Kearney, Michael Ruiz and Julien Vaughan in Silicon Valley and Hiroki Sugita, Sakon Kuramoto and Miho Yamada in Tokyo.

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Joseph Perkins Partner, Technology Companies Group, Blockchain and Virtual Currency

Silicon Valley

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Technology & Innovation Sector
Technology Companies Group
Blockchain and Virtual Currency
Japan
Mergers and Acquisitions

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Joseph Perkins Partner

Silicon Valley

In the fast-paced and unprecedented blockchain and cryptocurrency markets, Joseph helps companies develop innovative and comprehensive legal strategies to achieve their goals of bringing to market disruptive and transformative technologies. From DAO and NFT creation, general corporate and fundraising strategies, to navigating complex and changing regulatory regimes, Joseph has become a go-to advisor for companies in the blockchain and virtual currency ecosystem.

As a member of Orrick’s Technology Companies Group, Joseph assists cutting-edge technology companies and investors with general corporate counseling, private venture capital financing, and M&A services. Joseph has had the opportunity to work with some of the most iconic companies in Silicon Valley, advising on corporate strategy and fundraising matters.

Joseph also leads Orrick's international Technology Companies practice connecting Silicon Valley with Japan. He represents a number of technology companies and investors based in Japan, bringing his Silicon Valley experiences to assist founders and corporate venture capital funds. Joseph is fluent in Japanese and retains a strong connection to Japanese companies and our Tokyo practice.

Hiroki Sugita Partner, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology Companies Group

Tokyo

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Life Sciences Sector
Mergers and Acquisitions
Technology Companies Group
Fintech

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Hiroki Sugita Partner

Tokyo

He also has extensive experience in fund formation, real estate and various types of finance transactions.

Hiroki has a deep understanding of clients’ needs from his secondment experience with a U.S. investment bank in 2005 and a Japanese major trading house from 2012 to 2014.

Prior to joining Orrick, Hiroki worked at O’Melveny’s Tokyo office as a counsel where he mainly worked on cross border M&A.