Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
Denis Rice is a founding director of the firm and practices in a broad range of legal areas. His experience includes corporate and securities matters, Internet and e-commerce law, including startups, venture capital, corporate finance and intellectual property issues, financial institutions, complex litigation, dispute resolution, nanotechnology and international transactions. He has handled U.S. investments in India, China, Mexico and Europe. He handled the first public offering of a motion picture on the Internet in 2003. Mr. Rice has litigated complex cases (including class actions) in state and federal courts involving securities fraud, fiduciary duties, corporate governance, proxy contests, antitrust, trademarks and trade secrets. He has served as special counsel to corporate boards and federal agencies on governance, conflict and securities issues.
Mr. Rice’s representative matters include:
Representative clients have included Chase H& Q, General Motors Corp, H& Q Asia Pacific Ltd., Wells Fargo Bank, e-Companies Venture Group, S.F. Sentry Financial Group, Bank of Guam, Gensler, Sharp Electronics Corporation, Saint Francis Foundation, TriWorks Corp. and Granite Ventures LLC.
Mr. Rice serves as a Panel Arbitrator and as mediator for the American Arbitration Association and the World Intellectual Property Organization, and as mediator for the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Rice has lectured on securities, intellectual property, cyberspace law, electronic commerce and litigation in Amsterdam, Seoul, Berlin, Vancouver, Madrid, London, Paris, Milan, Munich, Montreal, Tokyo, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Durban (South Africa), Warsaw, Shanghai (by videoconference), Prague, Lisbon, as well as throughout the United States. He led a six-day training session in cyberlaw for the Supreme Court of Nepal in Kathmandu, October 2003.
Education and Honors
Mr. Rice’s representative matters include:
- Advised company on the merger of online retail and service provider into media company in triangular reorganization.
- Successfully prosecuted appeal to set aside judicially supervised settlement in complex probate litigation.
- Obtained judgment establishing successful $36 million bid in state of California contract.
- Counseled foreign real estate management and development company on marketing developments in the United States.
Representative clients have included Chase H& Q, General Motors Corp, H& Q Asia Pacific Ltd., Wells Fargo Bank, e-Companies Venture Group, S.F. Sentry Financial Group, Bank of Guam, Gensler, Sharp Electronics Corporation, Saint Francis Foundation, TriWorks Corp. and Granite Ventures LLC.
Mr. Rice serves as a Panel Arbitrator and as mediator for the American Arbitration Association and the World Intellectual Property Organization, and as mediator for the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Rice has lectured on securities, intellectual property, cyberspace law, electronic commerce and litigation in Amsterdam, Seoul, Berlin, Vancouver, Madrid, London, Paris, Milan, Munich, Montreal, Tokyo, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Durban (South Africa), Warsaw, Shanghai (by videoconference), Prague, Lisbon, as well as throughout the United States. He led a six-day training session in cyberlaw for the Supreme Court of Nepal in Kathmandu, October 2003.
Education and Honors
- J.D., University of Michigan Law School (Order of the Coif, Associate Editor, Michigan Law Review)
- A.B., Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Phi Beta Kappa)