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Our national and interdisciplinary Emerging Companies and Venture Capital team provides full life-cycle counsel to emerging companies – from formation to funding and growth, to exit by sale or initial public offering (IPO) – and the corporate and institutional investors that invest in them. With the experience of more than 1,000 attorneys across 18 offices, we deliver precise, timely and relevant counsel to companies and investors on a pragmatic and cost-effective basis.
Emerging Company Counsel
Our emerging company attorneys support clients from formation through angel and venture financings to liquidity by delivering focused and customized counsel to address each client’s specific corporate governance, intellectual property (IP), data security, human resource, financing, and other requirements and objectives. We work to understand the business, industry, tax and regulatory challenges faced by each of our emerging company clients so we can provide informed, business-specific advice that will help them succeed. Leveraging team members with in-depth experience in corporate governance, securities, finance, IP, licensing, equity incentives, tax, labor and employment, data privacy and security, and other practice areas, we regularly advise on:
