Our lawyers in this practice area have extensive professional experience, including:
- Formed an angel fund to invest in alcoholic beverage production and distressed customer-facing retail businesses, and executed inaugural investment into a NY-based beer brewery startup.
- Advised principal of a startup office incubator in structuring equity and employment arrangements and capital-raising activities.
- Negotiated a convertible preferred equity investment in a Chinese online retailer start-up through a Cayman Island holding company and wholly foreign-owned entity (“WFOE”) structure on behalf of a US fund.
- Advised angel investors in review of early-stage seed investments in technology start-ups across sectors.
- Advised an inventor in establishing a northern California-based video game start-up development fund.
- Advised a Russian venture fund investment in a portfolio company, a Russian television studio organized as a Russian joint-stock company, through a special purpose Cypress trust.
- Advised startup founders in negotiating and restructuring equity ownership with respect to launch of a second start-up with a prominent incubator investor and departing co-founder.
- Structured multiple seed round financings for a number of NY-based startups in the fintech, search engine, video gaming, data security, social calendaring and media verticals.
- Represented group of angel investors in due diligence relating to consumer-facing Internet retail startups.
- Served as general counsel to an emerging pharmaceutical client entering FDA Phase 1 trials with respect to its first liver cancer drug in connection with a private placement and general corporate matters relating to business activities in US, Canada and China.
- Advised key computer scientist in structuring deal to join a fintech start-up as a third co-founder.
- Served as general counsel to an augmented reality video gaming start-up and a boxing video gaming start-up with respect to private placements, intellectual property licensing, and general corporate matters.
- Structured sale of a medical technology startup to a super angel investor.
- Represented Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund several preferred rounds of financing in connection with portfolio company investments.
- Represented digital strategists and key service providers in reviewing and negotiating advisory board relationships and equity grants from start-ups.