VENTURE CAPITAL & EMERGING COMPANIES

We provide comprehensive and integrated legal services tailored for startups and emerging companies at the early stages of their growth. We help our clients transform innovative ideas into successful businesses. We counsel startups and entrepreneurs on entity formation, equity structures, fundraising, investor negotiations, corporate governance, executive employment, equity compensation, intellectual property rights, tax planning and other matters. We also represent venture capital and other institutional investors, whether financial or strategic, domestic or foreign, in forming investment vehicles and investing in early-stage companies. The portfolio targets of our investor clients are located across North America, Asia and Europe.

A key area of our emerging company services is to counsel businesses on raising capital. We offer guidance on financing strategies, founder-investor relationships, short- term and long-term legal and regulatory complexities involved in seeking foreign sourced funding, and other aspects of venture financing. We help clients optimize their potential for raising capital in today’s challenging venture capital environment. We have also devoted comprehensive effort to bringing together companies seeking funding and venture capital funds seeking quality investment opportunities, which effort is highly valued by our clients from both the company and the investor sides.

In serving entrepreneurs and emerging companies, we focus on building long-term client relationships. We frequently work alongside clients’ management teams on general corporate and commercial matters, serving as their outside general counsel and participating in board-level discussions. We are dedicated to acquiring a good understanding of each client’s products, technologies and business model so as to better advise its board and management. The long-term nature of our representation enables us to deliver highly efficient and cost-effective legal advice to our clients.

Our team have extensive experience in cross-border transactions and are well-positioned to handle the unique challenges and complex legal issues present in such transactions,

such as CFIUS analysis, technology export control, privacy and data security, joint venture and collaboration, international tax.