About Jake
Jake Winton earned his law degree from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, completing his J.D. in 2020 after attending from 2017. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Technology from the University of South Florida, awarded in 2013. Those two academic threads — law and technology — thread through the early years of his professional life.
His first professional experience traces back to service in the U.S. Navy, where he worked as a drug and alcohol counselor in 2010. After leaving the Navy he moved into private-sector roles that combined operational oversight and benefits administration. He was an operations manager at Property Upsurge, Inc. in 2014 and a benefits advisor at The Vita Companies in 2015. Those positions exposed him to organizational systems, employee programs and compliance questions that later informed his legal work.
While in law school he took on research and fellowship roles. In 2018 he served as a student fellow at The Source on Healthcare Price & Competition and as a research assistant at UC Hastings. In 2019 he was a fellow at TechGC and spent a summer as a summer associate at Venable LLP. After graduating he returned to UC Hastings briefly as a post-graduate teaching assistant in 2020.
In 2021 Winton joined Gunderson Dettmer as a corporate associate. His practice sits at the intersection of corporate transactions and technology-company needs. He advises on deal structures, commercial agreements and the operational implications that come with scaling technology businesses. His prior background in information technology and his work on health care price research inform how he approaches commercial problems and client conversations.
Winton is admitted to practice in California and is a current member of the California State Bar. He has worked in settings that range from a large technology-focused law firm to academic research projects, and he brings those varied perspectives into client matters. He is comfortable in negotiated transactions and in the procedural work that supports them.
He is currently a corporate associate at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, practicing corporate law in California.
