Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Technology

Providentia is a tech-enabled Silicon Valley law firm established to challenge the legal service provider status quo, for our attorneys and for our clients. Providentia solves the in-house legal dilemma of how to do more for less in key areas for our innovative clients, specializing in Intellectual Property/AI and Commercial & Compliance.
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Pioneering Legal Solutions for Tech Innovators

Our unique practice model, together with our focus on relationship building, distinguish Providentia from both traditional law firms and legal staffing agencies. Our clients obtain legal expertise, maintain departmental continuity, attorney-client privilege and mitigate legal risk at highly competitive rates.

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Intellectual Property/AI

Providentia understands that success in Tech comes down to protection of your intellectual property. Our firm has a sophisticated IP practice, with wide ranging expertise in new focus areas like AI and Trade Secrets, and deep skill sets in Patents and Tech Transactions.
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Prima by Providentia

Prima is Providentia’s tailored secondment solution. The firm provides its attorneys as dedicated in-house legal support to meet client’s immediate needs, including covering temporary resource gaps or managing special internal projects.

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Commercial and Compliance

Providentia has rich experience guiding Silicon Valley tech companies with innovative commercial advice. We leverage our expertise in tech transactions, contracts, go-to-market solutions and compliance, including the evolving data privacy and AI regulations for US and overseas clients.

Prov·i·den·ti·a

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In ancient Roman religion, the Goddess Providentia was the divine personification ofthe ability to foresee and make provision for the future. Like our namesake, Providentia helps our clients prepare for the future by using our knowledge to create value, and by identifying and implementing solutions that enable the right sourcing of legal resources and technology. We are engaged to do exactly that by clients ranging from start-ups to tech giants. In a complex environment, a little foresight can go a long way.

Expertise, Innovation and Cost-Efficiency

Providentia attorneys bring decades of IP, and Commercial & Compliance, legal experience from diverse industry sectors—technology (Hardware and Software), financial services/fintech, life sciences/healthtech, telecommunications, digital media & entertainment, and energy—offering tailored legal solutions to meet the unique challenges of each industry.

Deep-tech experience

The Providentia team has extensive experience advising high-growth tech companies on a wide range of tech transactions, intellectual property, and compliance matters. Our deliberate blend of big law firm and in-house experience at some of the world’s largest and most innovative technology companies allows us to tailor counsel to advance our client’s business.

Practical Business Counsel

Providentia knows first-hand that tech companies face a myriad of legal considerations and risk that carry broad product and strategy implications. We help clients, ranging from public enterprises to the upper echelon of the Fortune 100, manage legal risks sensibly for the benefit of the business.

Competitive Rates

Providentia provides leading, tech enabled legal counsel at highly competitive rates because of our low overhead.

Born in the Bay Area

Providentia’s locus in Silicon Valley keeps us connected to the fast-moving tech industry. Our virtual tech-enabled practice model allows our attorneys the flexibility to interact with our clients, at their workplace and on their schedule, while covering all major tech hubs across the United States.

Our Founder

Providentia Law Founder David Ryan

David Ryan—Leading Silicon Valley Tech Attorney

Providentia was founded by David Ryan, an internationally experienced business leader and lawyer with a background working in-house or as outside-counsel for Apple, Meta, Google, and eBay. David created Providentia Law as a firm to provide an innovative platform for outside counsel and secondment solutions to deliver business results and practical commercial guidance to the Tech industry.

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Current active team statistics

Average years of legal experience
10
15 years plus
60 %
Attorneys with Fortune 100 or AmLaw 100 experience
50 %
People of color
50 %

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Providentia is a secondment law firm in san francisco. Illustration of the concept of secondment in law, with a greek statue filling a hole in a legal team.
Providentia is a secondment law firm in san francisco. Illustration of the concept of secondment in law, with a greek statue filling a hole in a legal team.

PRIMA by Providentia

THE LEGAL INDUSTRY’S PREMIER SECONDMENT SOLUTION

The established Silicon Valley law firm that believes in challenging the status quo and thinking differently about legal services. Providentia knows secondment, inside and out, because it is what we were built on, by leaders who have been secondees, hired secondees, supervised secondees, and now identify attorneys to join the firm that will be valuable secondees for our clients.