As a partner with Alliance Counsel, Mr. Krebs brings 23 years of legal and investment banking experience. His practice has evolved to include a range of corporate and real estate transactional matters with small and emerging growth companies. On the corporate side, Mr. Krebs works with a number of early stage technology companies counseling them through the day-to-day business issues to help them achieve success. His expertise includes company formation, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, debt financing, and commercial and licensing agreements. He also has developed significant expertise in real estate transactions, primarily focusing on leasing, acquisitions and financing.

Before joining the firm, from 1999 to 2002, Mr. Krebs was a principal with Presidio Financial Partners, a San Francisco investment bank. He worked as an adviser in M&A and private placements for a range of growth companies in both the technology and consumer sectors. In addition to his deal experience, Mr. Krebs served as general counsel to the firm and handled all legal issues, regulatory compliance and employment matters.

Prior to Presidio, Mr. Krebs was in private practice. He started his career with Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, a large firm in San Francisco. Following that, as a partner with the Hyde Law Corporation, Mr. Krebs represented consumer and technology companies for more than a dozen years in a variety of business, corporate and real estate transactions.

Representative transactions included counseling a payment processing company and a multi-player game platform start-up in acquisitions by two leading internet public companies; representation of an early stage European venture capital investor in three technology companies ($500K to $2.0M rounds); negotiation of a key partnership between a VOIP telephony company and a major internet company; three rounds of venture capital financing for a leading restaurant company; counseling on a $14M real estate loan for the financing and development of an industrial project in the SF Bay Area; and negotiation and structuring of the acquisition and development of a retail/warehouse building in Southern California, together with the construction and permanent financing arrangements.

Mr. Krebs earned his law degree from the University of Southern California Law Center, where he also served on the school law review. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Political Science. He enjoys living in Marin County with his wife and two teenage sons.