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Parris Sanz

Chief Legal Officer

Parris Sanz is CAN Capital’s Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Executive Vice President. Mr. Sanz serves on the company’s Executive Committee and oversees all legal and compliance matters, including corporate governance, securities compliance, corporate transactions, intellectual property, litigation, and the company’s Compliance Management System.Mr. Sanz joined the company in 2004 with more than 11 years of experience as a corporate, securities, and transactional attorney. Before joining CAN Capital, he was a senior executive and General Counsel of a specialty pharmaceutical company, the successful sale of which he led in 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Sanz was an attorney in private practice at the law firms of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in San Francisco, where he handled a wide variety of M&A transactions, securities offerings including IPOs, and other corporate transactions, and acted as outside general counsel to a number of technology start-ups.