Corporate and Securities Department Legal Services for Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs

Our attorneys have substantial experience advising entrepreneurs, start-ups, and established small and medium-sized businesses. We offer candid, practical advice and creative solutions regarding business formation, transactions and operations. We also structure our fee arrangements to support our clients’ business goals.

The services and guidance that we provide include:

• Legal advice on business formation, shareholder agreements and other critical
• documentation
• Setting up employee stock option plans, and advising on related securities law
• issues
• All aspects of mergers and acquisitions (including legal due diligence), stock issuances and exchanges, business sales, as well as venture capital financings and other strategic transactions.

We recognize that one of the primary challenges for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and established small-to-medium-sized businesses can often be obtaining and retaining financial backing. We deliver results for our clients by providing strategic advice on financing options and leveraging our deep network of relationships with private equity firms, venture capital firms and investment banks.

As our clients’ businesses mature in scale and their capital needs evolve, our team is well-equipped to take our clients’ capital raising efforts to the next level, counseling them through all aspects of private capital markets financings, all the way through accessing the U.S. IPO market and going forward as a publicly listed company.

Our approach is commercial and solutions-focused. We build the foundational aspects of our clients’ businesses, so that they can focus on what they do best as they grow their companies— pursuing the innovative ideas that will power tomorrow’s economy.