Gesmer Updegrove LLP

Senior Counsel

Dallas wants to take on your legal challenges. Dallas proactively collaborates with clients to form new entities, raise capital, protect intellectual property, prepare contracts, ensure compliance with evolving privacy and consumer protection laws, and position their companies for exit transactions. Dallas’s extensive experience allows him to advise a diverse spectrum of businesses, ensuring they meet their legal obligations while fostering growth. He is well-versed in debt and equity angel and venture capital financing.

With expertise spanning various industries—including SaaS, e-commerce, manufacturing, cannabis, and alcoholic beverages—Dallas provides strategic guidance to emerging and established companies, investors, and executives on business formation, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing arrangements. His comprehensive approach equips clients with the tools they need to thrive in a competitive landscape.

English

The California Lawyers Association (CLA) Member; CLA Business Law & Privacy Law Section Member

Southern California Rising Star 2016-2021

San Luis Obispo Tribune’s Top 20 Under 40, 2015

Chapman University, School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation

Chapman University, School of Law, JD

University of California, Irvine, BA, Political Science