Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Funds

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Overview

OUR Practice
Stradley Ronon is a valued legal and business adviser to emerging companies and entrepreneurs throughout all stages of a company’s growth cycle. We also counsel venture capital funds and other investors in all manner of early-stage investment transactions.

Emerging Companies

Whether it’s launching a company, commercializing a product, raising capital, making acquisitions, or effectuating an IPO or sale, our seasoned attorneys provide practical, hands-on guidance suited to the unique needs of emerging growth companies. Our entrepreneurial clients can be found in all emerging growth sectors, including:

data analytics
health care IT
life sciences
media and communications
mobile applications
professional services
specialty foods
technology

Our attorneys have extensive experience representing venture capital funds and other early-stage investors in a variety of equity and debt financing transactions, including seed and angel rounds, preferred-equity rounds, growth-equity investments and strategic investments. We actively leverage these relationships to benefit our clients who are looking to either raise capital or invest in emerging companies.

YOUR Challenges / OUR Solutions
We recognize the distinct challenges faced by our emerging company clients – seizing on growth opportunities, operating in a competitive landscape and protecting valuable intellectual property assets, to name a few. We also understand that these challenges are often met in an environment where capital and human resources are limited. Our attorneys collaborate with emerging company clients to provide:

cost-effective entity formation guidance and implementation
forward-thinking advice regarding the transfer, protection and commercialization of intellectual property
strategic introductions to our established network of angel, venture capital, private equity and investment banking professionals
market-informed insights into debt and equity financing transactions
in-depth knowledge of IPO and sale transactions
seasoned state and federal securities law compliance savvy

OUR Strategy
It is our mission to assist early-stage investor clients in maximizing the return on their investment, and we understand the economic and business factors involved in decisions our clients make. Our emerging companies practice works closely with investor clients to develop the best business and legal strategy for each transaction. Driven by our client’s objective to maximize value, we provide:

strategic evaluation and structuring of initial and follow-on investments
timely risk-management counsel
thoughtful evaluation of intellectual property portfolios of target companies
pragmatic advice on the governance of portfolio companies
value-enhancing strategies for exit

OUR Experience
With decades of experience, attorneys in our Emerging Companies practice apply sophisticated industry knowledge and honed business acumen to a wide range of matters and transactions for early-stage companies. We are keenly focused on helping our clients make the best use of their limited resources. We also recognize that we cannot be successful partners with our clients without a comprehensive understanding of the industries in which they operate, which is why we attend and speak at industry conferences and report on the latest legal and business developments in our client publications.

OUR Services
We draw on the resources and experiences of our professionals across a variety of disciplines to provide an integrated set of legal services for emerging companies and venture capital fund clients, including:

LIFE CYCLE
We guide our emerging company and entrepreneurial clients through each stage of the growth cycle with a hands-on approach and practical, business-oriented advice.

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