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Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
M&A Strategies for the Acquisition of Insolvent/Financially Distressed Targets
Meritas Capability Webinar - Transactions in a COVID-19 Environment
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Homebuilder Series Webinar: Joint Ventures Solutions, Steve Lear
Structuring an MLP Finance
Financing Trends in Life Sciences – Interview with Bill Whelan, Member, Mintz Levin
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Crowdfunding emerged as a popular and innovative method of fundraising for startups, providing a platform for entrepreneurs to raise capital through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a...more
Are you ready to take your business to the next level but worried about the complexities of securing the right funding? Like many entrepreneurs, you may find yourself facing the obstacle of balancing capital acquisition...more
As we’ve noted in a previous article, the Y Combinator-hosted SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) has become the investment contract of choice for startup companies that have already attracted investors. However, the...more
Observations from Two of SoCal’s Leading Transaction Attorneys- What can buyers and sellers expect from the M&A market in 2024? Procopio Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Joint Ventures leaders Paul Johnson and Jason...more
2023 was a pivotal year for the emerging companies, creating new categories of winners and losers across the board. Emerging companies incorporating artificial intelligence or that have clear line of sight to positive cash...more
Whether you’re a first-time founder or a serial entrepreneur, the process of obtaining venture funding can be complicated and confusing. Let’s look at the process of getting a venture financing to closing, and the primary...more
Our survey analyzed the terms of 169 venture financings closed in the fourth quarter of 2022 by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley. The Q4 2022 data is consistent with what we would have expected. The terms are...more
Last Thursday, there was a lot of purple (and rain!) as Women in Fund Finance co-hosted the first FFA event of 2023, along with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Wells Fargo, kicking off the year with an exciting evening of...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: Experience Matters When Choosing Your Early Stage Startup Team - An important hiring skill is understanding how to optimize costs while also increasing your...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: 4 Important Areas for Ensuring Maximum Startup Protection - More than half a million new businesses are started each month, but unfortunately, many of them are...more
Signs of recovery in the crypto field are obvious and the investing public is again interested in companies operating in this realm. Thus, with the initial coin offering (ICO) era considered over, it seems there is a new tool...more
Background We analyzed the terms of 185 venture financings closed in the first quarter of 2019 by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley. We found that valuation results continued to be strong, with the average price...more
In conjunction with our Q3 Venture Financing Report, I sat down with Bruce Booth from Atlas Venture to get his take on the state of venture capital investing. On deal terms: The pendulum is definitely favoring entrepreneurs...more
In conjunction with our Q2 Venture Financing Report, I sat down with Stephen Kraus from Bessemer Venture Partners to get his take on the state of venture capital investing. A few highlights from Stephen Kraus - On deal...more
As we reported in Q1 2015, venture money is continuing to shift to a smaller number of large deals, which is causing surges in both the percentage of deals that are up rounds (which remained quite high in Q2) and pre-money...more
Rarely has a capital markets concept been more ambiguous, and potentially more confusing, than crowdfunding. It seems that everyone has his or her own definition, which sometimes varies depending on the circumstances. ...more
“How do I get backers for my project?” - You see this question asked frequently on social media sites. The projects are sometimes serious, but have often advanced little more than a dream. The person seeking funds may...more
Only recently, we debated the merits of the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), an alternative funding mechanism for early-stage companies designed to replace the industry-standard convertible note financing....more
In This Issue: - From the WSGR Database: Financing Trends for Q1 2015 - Price and Preference: Part 2 - Haves and Have Nots in Venture Financings - Excerpt from Price and Preference: Part 2: ...more
I recently attended Launch Festival 2015 in San Francisco and Angel Launch’s LaunchFEST Mixer: Doing Deals with Silicon Valley—Attracting Funding, Angels, and Tech Trends in downtown Los Angeles. The events were very...more
In this Newsletter: - Survey Results - Offerings Completed - Size of Offerings, Red Herring Midpoint - Size of Offerings, Final IPO Price - Aggregate Amount Raised, Red Herring Midpoint ...more
In Part I of our “Why Start-Ups Use Convertible Debt” series, we discussed one of the typical start-up financing structures, the sale of common stock, along with the issues that should be considered when setting a valuation....more
Most start-up companies turn to friends, family and/or high net worth individuals as the first source of capital to fund their operations. Banks will not lend to these companies since there are no real assets to collateralize...more
Background - We analyzed the terms of 150 venture financings closed in the fourth quarter of 2014 by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley. Overview of Fenwick & West Results - Valuation results...more
The 2014 U.S. initial public offering market was the most active for new issues since 2000. The market began to recover from the recession in 2010 and took off in 2013 with 222 offerings raising an aggregate of $55 billion,1...more