Silicon Valley Partner Returns Home to Austin via Perkins Coie

Silicon Valley corporate lawyer Valeska Pederson Hintz joined Perkins Coie’s emerging companies and venture capital practice in Austin as a partner this month.Hintz was previously at Lowenstein Sandler, where she practiced for seven years. Her career has also included stops at Wilson Sonsini, Latham & Watkins and Cooley.With the move, Hintz returns to the home of her high school and college alma maters, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School and the University of Texas, where she received a business degree in electrical engineering and financial management.Hintz’s practice focuses on venture financings, initial public offerings, tender offers, corporate governance, M&A transactions and SPAC transactions. She has also developed an expertise in blockchain technologies and provides counsel on non-fungible tokens, token offerings and cryptocurrency regulation and adoption.“Valeska’s familiarity with guiding innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs will be highly valuable to our sophisticated clients as they increasingly adopt technology-related platforms and applications,” Troy Foster, co-chair of Perkins Coie’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, said in a statement.Perkins Coie is expected to move soon into new office space in downtown Austin at 405 Colorado St.Hintz talked with The Texas Lawbook in this Q&A about returning home and elaborated on what she is observing in the…