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Overview
Introduction
Combining his legal training with experience as a biomedical scientist, KT counsels emerging technology and biotech innovation companies.
Kien-Thiet (KT) Nguyen represents both companies and investors in venture capital transactions and advises early-stage technology and life sciences startups on a range of corporate matters. He assists clients from formation to exit on governance, capitalization, financings, employment, and IP matters.
Before law school, KT was a graduate researcher in the University of California, San Francisco’s biomedical sciences graduate program, where he studied neurodegenerative diseases and brain cancers. He also worked in the university’s technology transfer office, consulting with university inventors on the patentability and commercialization of their inventions.
Education & credentials
- University of Washington School of Law, J.D.,
Managing Editor, Washington Law Review
, 2022 - University of California, San Francisco, M.Sc., Biomedical Science, 2018
- University of Washington, B.S., Neurobiology, 2013
- Washington
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Seattle, WA, Associate, 2022-2025; Law Clerk, 2021-2022; Summer Associate, 2020, 2021
- Goodwin Procter LLP, Redwood City, CA, Summer Associate, 2021