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Ian D. Smith is an attorney in the Corporate Practice Group of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Santa Barbara office. Mr. Smith is a member of the State Bar of California and the Santa Barbara County Bar Association. He also serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

Mr. Smith's areas of specialization include public and private securities, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business start-ups, intellectual property transactions and representing clients with respect to general corporate law and business matters. Mr. Smith represents clients ranging from individuals and privately held companies to large publicly-traded corporations.

Representative Transactions

The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Aviall, Inc.
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in its $365 million sale to Starwood Global Capital Group and related transactions.
Gemini Partners, Inc. in its management buy-out of Telscape Communications, Inc.
JAMDAT Mobile, Inc. in its $680 million merger with Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS).
JAMDAT Mobile Inc. in its $137 million acquisition of Blue Lava Wireless.
JAMDAT Mobile Inc. in its acquisition of Downtown Wireless, LLC.
JAMDAT Mobile Inc. in its initial public offering.
International Rectifier Corporation in its acquisition of the assets of Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. and Epitronics Corporation.
Advanced Information Management, Inc. in its sale to Authoria.
Fastclick, Inc. in its initial public offering.
Fastclick, Inc. in its $75 million recapitalization.
Vertex Systems, Inc. in its sale to Digital Evolution Corporation.
Access Retail Entertainment, Inc. in its Series A Preferred Stock financing.
Commerce Capital Group in its Series A Preferred Stock financing of Nqueue, Inc.
Eternal Systems, Inc. in its Preferred Stock financings.
Helinet Aviation Services, LLC in its $20,500,000 financing with Bison Capital Structured Equity Partners.
Helinet Aviation Services, LLC in its acquisition of Cineflex, LLC.
La Brea Bakery, Inc. in its sale to IAWS Group plc.
eLogic Corporation in its sale to Reed Elsevier, Inc.

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