Shafi Armatis is a corporate lawyer who counsels emerging companies, public companies and venture capital funds on a variety of complex matters, including corporate governance, equity and debt financings, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Ms. Armatis served as an Associate Corporate Counsel at Google LLC, where her practice focused on counseling Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI focused venture capital fund, with regards to its investments in early-stage companies. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Armatis served as a Teach for America corps member in Nashville, Tennessee.

Experience

  • Ms. Armatis has represented public companies on buy-side transactions and numerous startup companies and venture capital funds on equity and debt financings, as well as sell-side transactions. Representative transactions include representing:

    • Butlr in its Series B financing and general corporate matters;
    • Cambly in its Series B financing and general corporate matters;
    • Coil in its Series A and Series B financing, general corporate, investment and restructuring matters;
    • Dedrone in its financings and acquisition by Axon;
    • Eko Health in its Series D financing and general corporate matters;
    • EUV Tech in its Series A and Series B financing;
    • Happyrobot in its Series A and Series B financing and general corporate matters;
    • HoloBuilder in its inversion and initial round of funding, and its subsequent acquisition by FARO Technologies;
    • LARQ in general corporate and financing matters and its acquisition by BRITA;
    • Lattice Engines in connection with its acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet;
    • Lookout in various acquisitions, general corporate matters, divestiture of its cloud security business to Fortra and acquisition of its consumer mobile security business by F-Secure;
    • Nyansa in its acquisition by VMware;
    • Oso Semiconductor in its Series Seed financing and general corporate matters;
    • Origami Solar in its acquisition by Nextracker;
    • PyrAmes in its Series A financing;
    • Robinhood in its acquisition of Say Technologies;
    • Senreve in its Series A financing;
    • Shopware in its Series A and Series B financing, general corporate matters and in its acquisition by Vehlo;
    • Siolta Therapeutics in general corporate and financing matters;
    • Soraa Laser Diode in its acquisition by KYOCERA Corporation and in various financings;
    • Spin Memory in general corporate and financing matters;
    • Truera in general corporate matters and its acquisition by Snowflake;
    • Upland in general corporate matters and its Series A financing; and
    • Zero Emissions Industries in its general corporate and financing matters.

Recognition

  • Recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for the following practice areas: corporate governance and compliance law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law and venture capital law.
  • Recognized in the 2024–2025 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" for her corporate practice. 

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 2018

      Managing Editor, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs

      Masin Family Academic Gold Award Recipient for Academic Excellence in Negotiations Theory

      Masin Family Academic Gold Award Recipient for Academic Excellence in Executive Compensation

    • BA, Political Science and Legal Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

  • Admissions

    • California

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