MEET OUR TEAM

MARY PICIOCCHI, PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDER

Mary brings over 25 years of “big law firm” experience to her clients. She partners with companies at all stages—from formation through exit—providing comprehensive legal counsel on fundraising, equity compensation, secondary transactions, commercial and licensing agreements, acquisitions, and strategic matters. Mary also specializes in negotiating executive employment and separation agreements, leveraging her deep expertise to deliver practical solutions for complex legal challenges.
Mary provides her clients with responsive, personalized legal counsel tailored to their business priorities. She delivers pragmatic solutions that balance legal considerations with commercial objectives, becoming a trusted strategic advisor rather than just outside counsel. Through Piciocchi Legal, clients receive the dedicated attention that larger firms often cannot provide, with Mary working as an integrated member of their team to achieve practical outcomes.

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