ABOUT HOOL COURY LAW
We help entrepreneurs and investors launch great companies!
For our entrepreneur clients in the launch stage, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Determining appropriate entity, domicile, and capital structure
- Creating the entity, transferring in capital and assets
- In-licensing of technology, identifying and protecting intellectual property and branding
- Documenting relationships among founders, including operating agreements, shareholder agreements and restricted stock agreements
- Employment agreements, invention and proprietary rights and confidentiality agreements
- Acquiring companies and assets if the formation is an acquisition
For our investor clients in the launch stage, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Choice of vehicle for investment
- Fund formation and regulatory compliance at formation
- Management and advisory agreements
- Due diligence
We help investors deploy capital and companies get funded!
For our entrepreneur clients in the funding stage, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Connecting to investors (institutional, VC, private equity, and accredited investors)
- Negotiating term sheets and investment purchase agreements, due diligence responses
- Assisting with presentation and pitch or road shows
- Offering strategy and regulatory compliance
- Private and public offerings of securities
- Strategic partner investments
- Debt and equipment lease financing
For our investor clients in the funding stage, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Deal flow assistance, targeting of LPs
- Negotiating terms sheets and investment purchase agreements
- Capital raises for fund formations
- Venture, venture debt/equipment leasing, private equity and syndication investments
- Registration rights, drag-along, put/call and other investor preference
- Capital restructuring and target company reorganizations
We help our clients to rapidly scale!
For our entrepreneur clients ready to scale, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Efficient contracting methods for rapid revenue growth
- In-licensing and out-licensing of technology from commercial, academic institutions, including governmental licensing and funding programs
- Regulatory compliance, federal, state and international
- Distribution relationships, agencies, joint ventures, franchise, other strategic partnerships
- Asset and company acquisitions
- Stock and other equity plans and employment and consulting agreements, manuals and company policies
For our investor clients in the capital deployment mode, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Efficient methods to process deal documents
- Additional capital formation, securities compliance
- Portfolio company governance
- Negotiating and documenting equity, debt, equipment lease transactions
We help founders and investors achieve crazy good exits!
For our entrepreneur clients, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Intermediary, investment banking and advisory agreements
- Determining best structure options for exit
- Negotiating sale terms, getting your money and helping you sleep at night
- Asset sales, stock and membership interest sales, corporate mergers and reorganizations
- Sales to public companies, private equity firms, strategic buyers
For our investor clients, we routinely counsel in these areas:
- Sale of portfolio investments
- Fund distribution and wind down
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