Practice Area

Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

Our ECVC practice spans incorporations, company governance, cap table magement and financing rounds, from SAFEs to Series A to Series F, and everything in between.

§ 01 — Overview

Your contracts shouldn't slow down your business

Slow turns on financing docs can kill a deal. Poor corporate governance can create ambiguity where there should be clarity in your business.

Our team has experience overseeing headline grabbing financings  and incorporating, and overseeing, numerous companies.

§ 02 — What We Handle

Contracts we handle for you

Incorporations

Set up your company so that you can begin operating, open a bank account and take a VC check.

Corporate Governance

Guidance on your Bylaws, Charter, board structure, and other key components of running a company.

SAFEs

We help you get your first VC deal done - usually a SAFE and a Side Letter.

Due Diligence

We run your due diligence process for you during your fundraise.

Priced Financing Rounds

We quarterback your Series A, Series B and beyond.

Cap Table Management

We make sure that your advisor, employee, founder and investor equity is buttoned up/

§ 03 — Your Team

Meet the attorneys who lead this practice area

Chris Grogan

Managing Partner - Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

Chris counsels startups from formation to exit, founders as they lead emerging companies, and investors in equity financing transactions. As an attorney, he has worked on equity financings and M&A transactions and has experience leading an in-house legal team advising a startup as it ramped up revenue, increased its headcount, expanded its product set, and moved into new markets.

Ready to get started?

15 minutes, no commitment. We'll scope the work, quote a flat fee, and spin up your Slack channel the same day.