Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business

by Gregory C. Smith

Overview

Here's all the practical information you need to organize, finance and run a new enterprise. Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business brings you the legal and business savvy of leading experts from law, investment banking and venture capital firms. You'll find extensive coverage of: the venture financing process and negotiating strategies; corporate, securities and tax laws; corporate governance; registration and investor rights; the interplay between business and legal considerations; limited liability companies; joint ventures and strategic alliances; employee benefit plans; stock options; contracts; accounting procedures; intellectual property strategies; merger agreements and ancillary documents; exit strategies; and developments in Internet law and e-commerce.

In addition, this book features over 75 sample forms, clauses, agreements, checklists and term sheets online, including: documents for use in the formation of a corporation; organizational resolutions; employment agreements and offer letters; and forms for meetings of shareholders and boards of directors. For anyone starting a new enterprise or overseeing its growth, this is the ideal legal guide.

Book #00592; looseleaf, two volumes, 2,113 pages; revised edition published in 1997, updated as needed; no additional charge for updates during your subscription. Looseleaf print subscribers receive supplements. The online edition is updated automatically. ISBN: 978-1-58852-031-9.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781588522320
Publisher:	Law Journal Press
Publication date:	11/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	2556
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Gregory C. Smith
Gregory C. Smith.(Editor and author of Chapter 4 “Federal Securities Law Considerations of Raising Capital: A Practical Guide,” Chapter 8 “Venture Capital Analysis and Negotiation,” Chapter 9B “Registration and Investor Rights Agreements” and Chapter 23 “Sample Start-Up Company Forms” and other designated Sections). Mr. Smith is the founding partner of Woodside Counsel, P.C., a boutique law firm that specializes in the representation of start-up and emerging growth companies and the investors and professionals that work with them. Previously, Mr. Smith practiced corporate law for over twenty years at the law firms of Skadden, Arps, where he assisted with the opening of their Palo Alto office and served as a corporate partner for over a decade, and Cooley Godward, where he also served as a corporate partner.Mr. Smith has significant experience in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and partnering transactions and corporate restructurings for public and private companies, both internationally and domestically. He has also represented numerous underwriters and financial advisors in a broad array of financing, restructuring and acquisition transactions.Mr. Smith has been selected for inclusion in publications such as Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He also was one of the “Top Twenty Under Forty” in 2002 in the California Law Business section of The Daily Journal.Mr. Smith has an active interest and background in music and the performing arts. While at Stanford University, he was winner of the Stanford Concerto Competition (piano) and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences Award in music. In addition, he has appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony on several occasions and continues to perform from time to time. Mr. Smith has served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Music at Stanford University.Mr. Smith received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1985 with a double major in music and history (with distinction; Phi Beta Kappa) and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Gregory C. Smith is the founding partner of Woodside Counsel, PC, a boutique law firm in the silicon Valley focused on the representation of emerging growth companies. He was a partner for over a decade in the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher&Flom LLP. He has extensive experience representing start-up and emerging growth companies as well as underwriters, financial advisors and venture capitalists. Mr. Smith received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1985, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.