Jessica McBride is Of Counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on corporate and securities law, venture capital transactions, and corporate governance matters.

Most recently, she served as assistant general counsel at autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, Inc. In this role, Jessica helped to build and implement the company’s corporate legal strategy through significant growth, and advised the executive leadership team on a broad range of matters, such as fundraising, strategic transactions (including the acquisition of lidar company Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, Inc. and Uber’s self-driving car unit ATG), its business combination with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y, and the company’s transition as a publicly traded company.

Prior to moving in-house, Jessica was an associate at Wilson Sonsini from 2012 to 2018.