07 Jan 2026
Matteo Daste Joins Lowenstein Sandler as Partner in Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Group
"Matteo Daste joins Lowenstein Sandler as a partner in the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital group, advising startups, growth companies and venture funds on venture/growth equity and cross-border tech, fintech and digital asset matters."
Daste has spent the past 25 years as a Silicon Valley/San Francisco-based lawyer advising startups, growth companies and venture capital funds in the United States and Europe, and will continue this work with Lowenstein’s ECVC team. He will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. His practice encompasses representation of domestic and foreign startups, emerging growth companies and investors in venture and growth equity transactions, private tender offers and other secondary transactions, mergers and acquisitions, ‘‘flips’’ into U.S. entities, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He frequently counsels on cross-border transactions between Europe and the United States, primarily in the technology sector, and also advises in the digital asset/cryptocurrency and fintech sectors. Daste’s experience further includes representing issuers, including financial institutions, in U.S. capital markets transactions. He serves as outside counsel to the Italian General Consulate in San Francisco and grew up in Italy; he speaks fluent Italian. He is a fellow of the Intentac International Entrepreneurship Academy of Jonkoping University, a founder of the Business Association Italy America (BAIA) and a member of the board of directors of Italian Community Services.
For the decade prior to joining Lowenstein, Daste was a partner at two AMLaw 50 firms, Mayer Brown and, before that, Orrick.