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Formation, founder equity, early financing and ongoing counsel for companies built by people who may also be navigating immigration.
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05 SERVICESImmigrant Founder Legal Strategy
Founding a U.S. company on a visa raises questions most startup lawyers do not ask and most immigration lawyers do not answer: can you work for your own company on your current status, can the co…
Startup Formation & Entity Strategy
Most venture-backed startups end up as Delaware C corporations, and most founders know that. What they discover later is everything that should have happened in the first month: founder stock iss…
Founder Equity, Vesting & IP Ownership
The expensive founder disputes almost always trace back to a conversation that never happened: who owns what, what happens if one of you leaves, and whether the code written before incorporation …
SAFE & Seed Financing Support
A post-money SAFE is five pages long and most of them are standard. The decisions that matter are in the blanks—valuation cap, discount, whether there is a side letter—and in what the document do…
Outside General Counsel for Growing Companies
Somewhere between the seed round and the first in-house lawyer, a company needs someone who knows the business, answers the phone and can tell a founder which of this week's five legal questions …
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