Emerging Companies
Bilzin Sumberg's Corporate Group advises emerging companies throughout all stages of their life cycles, from company formation through initial funding to liquidity events. Our team takes a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to satisfying the diverse legal needs of our clients as their businesses grow.
Our Emerging Companies services include, among others:
- Counseling founders on formation and organizational matters
- Crafting equity incentive plans to align the interests of founders, employees and advisors
- Advising clients on employment and independent contractor matters, including offer letters, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements and separation agreements
- Drafting and negotiating documentation for private placement financing transactions with friends and family, angel, seed, venture capital and private equity investors
- Conducting due diligence for investors in emerging companies
- Drafting and negotiating commercialization and licensing agreements, including distribution agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements and software and other intellectual property licenses
- Establishing website terms and conditions of use and data privacy and security policies
- Guiding clients throughout their life cycles on corporate governance matters
- Assisting clients with planning for and implementing exit strategies, from private placements to mergers and acquisitions
EXPERIENCE
Representation of a family business in its sale of all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of a janitorial and sanitation services company. Counsel included handling the merger and acquisition transaction, negotiating an industrial warehouse lease, tax structuring of the transaction, and spi...
Representation of client in its acquisition of a planning and landscape architecture business in a carve-out transaction from the seller.Handled all aspects of this transaction, including, among other things, all transaction documentation andcorporate governance issues, as well asemployment-related ...
Representation of a rapid assay diagnostics company in its acquisition of another rapid assay diagnostics company. The complex transaction involved a stock-for-stock merger and capital raise of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, and included counsel on corporate governance, employment agreements,...
Representation of a brand owner and intellectual property licensor in the cannabis industry in its offering of Series Seed Preferred Stock to accredited investors in a private placement.
Representation of a provider of information technology and enterprise technology services in the sale of all of the capital stock of its subsidiary, which provides cloud-based cyber defense platforms.
Representation of a rapid assay medical diagnostics company in its $22.5 million offering of Series B Preferred Stock to accredited investors in a private placement.
INSIGHTS
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to have represented NOWDiagnostics, Inc., a developer of over-the-counter (OTC) and point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, in its $22.5 million Series B capital raising round.
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