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Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business
This two-volume treatise brings the legal and business savvy of leading experts from law, investment banking and venture capital firms. The work includes 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.
Planned, Edited and Co-Authored
By
Gregory Smith (2004-2022)
Dror Futter (2023)
Contributing Authors
| Michael Calvey Michael J. Calvey LLC |
Susan Cooper Philpot Cooley LLP |
Daniel I. De Wolf Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. |
L. John Doerr Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
Jay Dratler, Jr. University of Akron School of Law |
| Jerome S. Engel University of California at Berkeley |
Stephen C. Ferrolo University of San Diego Law School |
Ellen A. Friedman Friedman & Springwater LLP |
David Gammell Gunderson Dettmer |
Celeste E. Greene Skadden, Arps (retired) |
| Derrick N.D. Hansen Friedman & Springwater LLP |
Anna Hsia ZwillGen Law LLP |
Robert Ishii Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
Kenneth King Skadden, Arps |
Michele Kulerman Greenberg Traurig |
| Derek Liu Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
Kristin Major Hewlett Packard |
James D. Marver VantagePoint Ventures |
Henry P. Massey, Jr. Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati |
Manes Merrit Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky |
| Jack H. Nusbaum Willkie Far & Gallagher |
Cheryl Orr Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath |
Anna B. Pope Cooley LLP |
John B. Power O’Melveny & Meyers |
Rita Rodin Paycasso |
| Barry L. Salkin The Wagner Law Group & Wolosky |
Alan E. Salzman VantagePoint Venture Partners |
Jeffrey T. Sheffield Kirkland & Ellis |
Diane Savage Cooley LLP |
Douglas A. Tanner Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy |
| Edward L. Turner Shearman & Sterling (retired) |
Gregory V. Varallo Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman |
Laurence D. Weltman Willkie, Farr & Gallagher |
Derek Willis Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati |
Joseph Yaffe Skadden, Arps |
| Joseph Yang PatentEsque Law Group |
Robert Zivnuska Barclays Global Investors
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