Venture Capital Services & Private Equity

Where Government & Venture Capital Converge

Our firm is located in the Washington, DC Metro area, the leading location for start-up companies and business seeking capital in an unstable economy, where venture capital and the government converge.  Our attorneys have experience working with venture capital firms, angels and private investors across the United States and overseas. 

If you are a company that seeks, venture capital funding, we can help your business become more venture capital friendly.  Because obtaining venture capital is often a difficult process and only a small minority of businesses achieve their ultimate goals we cannot guarantee success, but we can definitely improve your odds.  We can also help you explore other capital and financing alternatives-angels, private investors and lenders.

Finding VC Funding

If you are able to successfully attract venture capital or other private financing, we can help you negotiate the terms of the venture capital or private investor contract.  We can advise you on how to best protect your interests.  While venture capital can be very positive, it certainly comes with risks.  Without experienced legal representation, many entrepreneurs have readily signed into contracts that they later regretted.  We understand the types of provisions that can be the source of  traps for unwary entrepreneurs such as liquidation preferences, preferred class preferences, anti-dilution clauses, security interests, and provisions which give up too much management control or permit an easy path to board and management takeovers.

Compliance

We can help you comply with all the legal requirements including preparation of offering documents to comply with the disclosure laws, creation of any new preferred classes of shares in accordance with state corporate law, and state and federal security registration to comply with state (blue sky)  and federal (SEC) laws.  We can generally structure the transaction so that it is exempt from registration, which is very expensive and time consuming.

Disputes

With all of the changes in financial positions many companies and even venture capital firms themselves are feeling the squeeze and have become more risk averse.  This can lead to disagreements for things like capital calls and the non-availability of financing when a note ballons or terms out.  We have delt with these situations time and time again. Contact us at 800-747-9354 (overseas call 202-316-8558) or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .