Deborah Robbins Schwarzer
Of Counsel

Deborah Robbins Schwarzer joined the firm as its second partner in 1990, and is currently a member of the Corporate and Securities and Technology Transactions and Product Distribution groups. Prior to joining GCA in 1990, she was a partner in the corporate securities practice of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. From 1996 to 2001, Ms. Schwarzer served as General Counsel of Heska Corporation, a public biotechnology company located in Fort Collins, Colorado. She returned to GCA in an Of Counsel capacity as of December 2002.

While at GCA, Ms. Schwarzer represented both emerging technology companies and public companies for the full range of corporate matters, including public and private securities counseling, mergers and acquisitions work and technology licensing matters. Before joining Heska, she ran the Fort Collins, Colorado office of GCA from 1995-1996. During her tenure at Heska, she managed the company's initial public offering in addition to supervising the legal aspects of its corporate and transaction matters.

Ms. Schwarzer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she received her B.A. in philosophy with highest honors in 1979. She earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982. She is a member of the California and Colorado bars.

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