About Darren
Darren Green built a career that crosses both boardrooms and classrooms. He trained at major universities and moved through private practice before taking up a university post that blends business and law.
Green earned his law degree from the University of California - Los Angeles after completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Those years set the stage for work that would alternate between advising companies and teaching future founders and lawyers.
His early legal work began in 1996 at Goldberg Kohn, where he practiced as a lawyer and gained experience in corporate matters. In 2001 he opened the Law Offices of Darren Green and described his work as corporate, technology and venture capital law. A year later he accepted a partner role at Old Willow Partners, adding a private equity and partnership dimension to his practice.
By 2007 Green moved into academia. He joined Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law as Professor of Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Practice. That appointment placed him at the intersection of legal training and the commercial world. He taught courses that connected the mechanics of deals to the legal tools that support startups, investors and established companies.
Throughout his career he has worked on transactions and counseling that drew on corporate governance, technology licensing and venture capital structuring. His practical background informed his classroom teaching. Students heard from someone who had negotiated deals, started a small practice and worked inside a partnership firm. That practical perspective shaped course content and seminar discussions.
Colleagues and students have described his classes as grounded in transaction work and dealcraft rather than abstract theory. He has used real-world examples from his time in private practice to illustrate the legal issues that arise as companies form, scale and seek outside capital. Those examples often bridge the gap between hypothetical problems and the messy realities of negotiation and compliance.
Outside the classroom he maintained ties to the practice community through his earlier firm work and partnership role. He continued to advise clients on corporate and technology matters while teaching, drawing on the same rulebooks and precedents he assigns in readings. That dual track helped him refine how practitioners and academics talk about venture capital and entrepreneurship.
As of 2026 he remains on the faculty at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and continues to teach and work on matters involving entrepreneurship, venture capital, corporate and technology law.
