Larry W. Nishnick

Larry’s experience is extensive with deals ranging from multi-billion dollar acquisitions to angel investments. His recent experience includes the following representation:   

• Outside corporate and securities counsel to multiple public companies 
• The Coca-Cola Company in its multi-billion dollar acquisition of BODYARMOR and various other  acquisitions, divestitures and investments, including in the beverage, milk, sports and technology industries
• QUALCOMM in various strategic acquisitons and as primary outside counsel for governane and securities matters
• ViaSat in its divistiture of assets and simultaneous investment of a private company acquiring a digital signal processing (DSP) business 
• NuVasive in various strategic acquisitions and convertible debt financings
• Maxwell Technologies in an exchange offer sale to Tesla
• ResMed as outside corporate securities counsel
• Cowen and Canaccord Genuity as joint-lead bookrunners for the Greenlane Holding initial public offering (IPO) and various follow-on offerings and financing transactions
• Jack-in-the-Box as securities and corporate governance counsel 
• Histogen in its reverse IPO and multiple financing transactions, including registered direct, PIPE and public offerings
• BioFire Diagnostics sale to bioMérieux, including various ITAR, CFIUS and Department of Defense related matters
• Investors in a sale of a minority interest in a Major League Baseball franchise
• QuickFire Networks, a video encoding company, in its sale to Facebook
• Daasity as outside general counsel and its venture capital led preferred stock financings 
• A vast number of emerging growth companies in the various industries

The Legal 500 United States

• Recommended, Healthcare: Life Sciences, (2019)
• Next Generation Partner, Healthcare: Life Sciences, (2017 – 2018)

Additional Awards

• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for exceptional work in Mergers and Acquisitions Law, (2025)
• Recognized in San Diego 50: Making a Difference, as "50 of San Diego’s most influential leaders"
• Recognized in San Diego 500: "Special Edition: The Most Influential People in San Diego," San Diego Business Journal, (2020 – 2021)
• Named to San Diego Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence in Law, (2024)

Before joining AKD Partners, Larry served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary to telecommunications company and as a general counsel at a specialty pharmaceuticals company. Based on these in-house executive positions, he gained valuable experience on day-to-day legal and business matters while managing worldwide legal operations and was responsible for worldwide business development, corporate services and operations.

Thanks to both his in-house and outside counsel experience, Larry approaches his practice as a business partner with his clients and is often viewed as an extension of his clients' existing management teams.