We know how to help you turn your ideas into reality. Our attorneys can provide you with legal services that evolve as your enterprise does — from start-up to successful exit.
Because we work to understand your business, we’ll help examine your corporate requirements, intellectual property protection, employment issues, and regulatory and compliance needs, and assess how these impact your bottom line. That’s what we’ve already done for many major companies and investors in the information technology, digital media, social media, life sciences, health care, and energy and clean technology sectors.
We’re experienced in representing clients in all types of financings — from early- or seed-stage investments through later stages. We provide counsel to companies, investors, and financial advisors in a range of sophisticated transactions.
Quick Facts
- More than 200 completed venture capital transactions since 2010, with an aggregate deal value of over $1.8 billion
- Represent founders, companies, and venture capital and other investors
- All stages — from early- or seed-stage investments through subsequent multi-investor and late-stage financing
- Initiate introductions between our start-up clients and our network of angel investors and venture capital firms
Areas of Focus
- Start-Up services
- Incorporation
- Intellectual property protection
- Option plans
- Proprietary information agreements
- Restricted stock agreements
- Stockholder agreements
- Corporate transactions
- Commercial contracts
- International transactions
- Joint ventures
- Licensing
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Outsourcing agreements
- Strategic alliances
- Employee, labor, and benefits counseling
- Compensation arrangements
- Employee handbooks
- Immigration
- Noncompete protection
- Financings
- Alternative public offerings
- Cross-border financings
- Debt and equity structures
- IPOs
- Private placements
- Seed stage and “angel” financings
- Venture financings
- Fund formation
- Broker-dealer and investment advisor regulatory compliance
- Investment advisory agreements
- Limited liability company agreements
- Limited partnership agreements
- Private placement memoranda
- Government relations
- Federal government regulations
- Intellectual property
- Copyrights
- Patents
- Privacy and security
- Technology transfer
- Trademarks
- Tax structuring and advice
- Minimizing tax on equity grants