MEET OUR TEAM

MARY PICIOCCHI, PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDER

Mary brings almost 20 years of “big law firm” experience to her clients. She advises emerging-growth and late-stage companies in everything from initial formation to sales, fundraising, employee and equity compensation matters, commercial and licensing agreements, acquisitions, and all matters in between. She also assists executives with negotiating employment and exit packages.

Mary’s clients receive in-depth, personalized consultation and communication, plus top-quality and current legal advice. Mary understands that clients’ business needs must come first, and she gives the most pragmatic and effective legal advice possible. Through her, Piciocchi Legal provides attention that a large, faceless firm can't: Mary becomes a key player on every client’s team through direct collaboration and skilled consultation.

Education
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (J.D., May 1999)
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award: Corporations II; Prosser Prize: International Finance, Contracts, Property

Georgetown University, Washington, DC
(B.A., magna cum laude, May 1995)

L'Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
(1993 – 1994)

Bar Admissions

  • California

  • Utah

  • New York (inactive)

STEPHANIE STRELAU, SENIOR COUNSEL

Stephanie helps clients with a wide variety of technology and commercial transactions, including licensing, outsourcing, development, supply, and cloud/SaaS agreements. She also advises clients on product development and governance matters, with a particular emphasis on creating global privacy programs and addressing cloud/software issues. She evaluates privacy implications of products and services, drafts internal privacy policies and external privacy disclosures, creates privacy trainings, helps structure compliant business processes and cross-border data transfers, and otherwise advises on compliance with privacy regulations—both in the U.S. and internationally. Stephanie is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US).

Stephanie started her career at Baker McKenzie and McGuireWoods, before serving as in-house counsel at Magic Leap. Her breadth of experience has given her an appreciation for pragmatic, actionable solutions. She works to understand every client’s products and objectives—and she focuses on helping clients find a “right-sized” approach for their business.

Education
Columbia School of Law
Cornell University

Bar Admissions

  • New York

  • Illinois

  • Minnesota

SHIRLEY HUANG, SENIOR COUNSEL

Shirley specializes in corporate law and provides counsel to companies through all phases of the business life-cycle. She has represented numerous start-up companies in the Silicon Valley from incorporation to venture-capital financings, exit events, and sales by merger and equity purchases.  In addition, Shirley has also represented Fortune 500 technology corporations in acquisitions as well as game development companies in cross-border transactions.  

Shirley's broad range of experience in corporate law enables her to meet her client's needs by seeing the big picture and providing practical advice.

Prior to joining Piciocchi Legal, Shirley was counsel at Perkins Coie LLP in its Palo Alto office, a corporate associate at Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston, and an intern at a global law firm in its Asia office.

Education
Northeastern University School of Law
University of California, Irvine

Bar Admissions

  • California

  • New York

  • Mass