Areas of Practice

The firm’s practice encompasses a broad spectrum of corporate and transactional matters including:

  • Seed, Angel and Venture Capital Financings
  • Representation of Startups, Early Stage and Emerging Growth Companies
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Strategic Partnerships
  • Securities Law Matters

  • General Business and Corporate Law Matters
  • Recapitalizations and Restructurings
  • Commercial Contracts and Other Agreements
  • Real Estate Leasing
  • Intellectual Property Matters

Representative work includes the following:

  • Providing general business counsel and securities law advice to startups and emerging companies
  • Serving as outside general counsel to early stage, emerging and other companies
  • Providing advice regarding entity formation and jurisdiction of organization
  • Formation of corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and other entities
  • Drafting organizational documents such as certificates of incorporation and by-laws, articles of organization, articles of formation, operating agreements, limited liability company agreements, and limited partnership agreements
  • Assisting with corporate governance activities including board and shareholder meetings, preparing board and shareholder resolutions and drafting advisory board membership agreements
  • Drafting and negotiating shareholders agreements
  • Preparing and negotiating stock purchase, subscription and equity purchase agreements
  • Drafting and structuring option plans and other equity incentive arrangements and option agreements and related documents
  • Representing activist investors in proxy contexts
  • Drafting and negotiating employment agreements, consulting agreements, work for hire and assignment of inventions agreements, non-disclosure agreements and non-solicitation and non-competition agreements
  • Federal and state securities laws compliance and preparing SEC and state blue sky filings
  • Drafting and negotiating letters of intent, term sheets, asset and stock sales and purchase agreements, merger agreements, joint venture agreements and strategic partnership agreements
  • Drafting and negotiating license agreements, software development agreements and other commercial agreements
  • Representing issuers and investors in seed, angel, venture capital and other financing transactions (including debt, equity and convertible debt) and preparing and reviewing offering materials and related documents
  • Organizing and performing due diligence reviews in a variety of contexts
  • Drafting and negotiating commercial loan documents
  • Reviewing and negotiating commercial office building leases and subleases