Venture Capital and Angel Financing
Overview
Our venture capital law and angel financing law practice is a seasoned interdisciplinary practice. Financial law attorneys work together with tax, ERISA, intellectual property, and banking attorneys to provide a comprehensive platform of legal services for venture capital firms.
Our venture capital attorneys and angel investing attorneys understand this culture and leverage their deep expertise to provide valuable insights to our clients on legal issues that affect them and the companies in which they invest. We stay abreast of emerging trends in the industries of our clients' companies, as well as venture capital law and regulatory matters that affect investment evaluations and market terms.
Our clients
Our clients' portfolios consist of companies of diverse, contemporary industries, located in and outside of the United States.
Our practice
We know that no investment can be successful without an eventual liquidity opportunity. Our attorneys have extensive experience preparing and guiding companies through the initial public offering process and representing both sellers and acquirers in sophisticated sale transactions. That experience is brought to bear in analyzing, structuring, negotiating, and documenting every venture capital investment that we handle.
We understand the culture of venture capital and recognize that our clients are highly selective when it comes to investing the capital of their limited partners, and they only back management teams they believe in. We know that along with adeptly evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and closing a transaction, it is equally important to maintain strong working relationships among our investor clients and the people they will work with and depend upon to make their investments successful.
Due diligence
Our clients are sophisticated investors with interests in cutting-edge technologies in many industries. They understand the importance of conducting a thorough review of a company's intellectual property, as well as its corporate and contractual documents before investing.
We provide an in-depth level of legal and technical expertise to help our clients evaluate the wisdom of a potential investment. Our attorneys hold graduate and doctorate degrees in many technical fields, including biochemistry, chemistry, chemical, electrical, mechanical, and polymer engineering, medical science, molecular pharmacology, and physics. We can provide our investor clients with valuable due diligence insights in the fields where they invest.
Our transactions
Our attorneys have represented investors in financing companies in a broad range of industries and fields, including:
- Biotechnology and bioinformatics
- Broadband communications applications
- Instant messaging
- Internet services
- Medical device
- Hardware, software and optical network systems and applications
- Pharmaceutical
- Software
- Semiconductor
- Wireless telecommunications and telecommunications equipment
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Professionals
- Kadeem Apply
- William Bernat
- Mark Burgiel
- Isabelle Cunningham
- Joshua French
- Jeremy Halpern
- Suzanne Hamel
- Jonathan Harris
- Kate Henry
- Portia Keady
- Meghan Kelly
- Michael Kushnir
- Mark Leonardo
- Robert Lynch, Jr.
- Elizabeth Myers
- Francesca Oliveira
- Timothy Rennie
- Thomas Rosedale
- Armand Santaniello
- Steven Saunders
- Nichole Shustack
- Alexandra Slavet
- Mark Tarallo
- Tracy Vitols
- Kathleen Williams
- Alexis Yamin
- Shannon Zollo
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- Clean Crop Technologies, Inc.
Nutter served as legal counsel to Clean Crop Technologies, Inc. in connection with its $3 million seed stage investment round.
- Gravyty
Nutter served as legal counsel to Gravyty, a market-defining provider of fundraiser enablement solutions powered by artificial intelligence, in connection with a $21 million investment from K1 Investment Management, a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies.