Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Today’s companies need counsel with a global perspective and deep understanding of their business needs, investor expectations, and growth trajectories to help them establish the right foundation to grow and prosper.

We serve as trusted advisers and strategic partners to deal-intensive, high-growth emerging companies, venture and growth capital funds, corporate venture clients, and other participants in the global innovation ecosystem. We operate across the entire investment and business life cycle from idea to exit, providing tactical legal and business advice informed by a deep understanding of our clients’ business needs and the firm’s sector-specific legal knowledge.

We have been deeply embedded in the venture capital ecosystem for decades, operating across the globe at startup velocity through bull markets and downturns, aa well as shifting political and regulatory environments. We serve as legal counsel to more than 20 unicorn startups, each valued at more than $1 billion. Over the past three years, our clients have raised tens of billions of dollars in the private capital markets, while our team has managed thousands of venture capital financings from pre-seed through growth-stage rounds. We represent multiple top-decile venture funds in connection with critical path investments. We also represent emerging managers with equal attention, sophistication, and speed.

Our international platform combines extensive corporate law experience with sector-specific knowledge that is critical to emerging companies in fast-moving industries. We offer astute, business-focused counsel on founder advisory and formation, corporate governance, debt and equity financing and other fundraising support, M&A, public capital markets, product innovation and go-to-market development, revenue enablement and protection, regulatory compliance, data security, IP, strategic transactions and partnerships, and other go-to-market transactions, employment, incentives, tax, and disputes.

We work with clients to help navigate the capital-raising process, connecting them with suitable investors and refining their strategies to stand out among the 1% of proposals that venture capital firms typically fund. Our introductions to investors have assisted companies in raising billions of dollars over the last decade.