Business Law and Corporate Law

Common ground. In a successful venture capital transaction, the founders and the venture capitalists find common ground so they can work together to build a successful enterprise...

Silicon Valley is built on the promise of innovation, but for the better part of the past three years, the innovation economy has been in a coma.

On July 4, President Donald Trump signed a budget reconciliation bill entitled the "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" (the Act). The Act extends the tax cuts that were enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017...

On May 23, 2025, the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of two lawsuits1 brought by a shareholder seeking to impose Section 16(b)2 liability by pairing sales of outstanding shares made by controlling shareholders with share repurchases by corporations they control.

A significant portion of private funds rely on the exemptions from registration under either Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) (Registration Exemptions) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Investment Company Act). Section 3(c)(1) exempts issuers whose outstanding securities are beneficially owned by 100 or fewer persons (100 Person Limit).

On July 11, 2025, the SEC announced that it had filed a joint stipulation with Defendants Pinnacle Advisors, LLC ("Pinnacle"), two of Pinnacle's officers, and two mutual fund independent trustees to dismiss with prejudice the SEC's first-ever case seeking to enforce the Liquidity Rule.

On Thursday, June 26, James Forrest and Ashley Smith sat down with Clint Bundy, Managing Director of the Bundy Group, a boutique advisory firm.

The FTC and DOJ under President Trump have each recently approved divestiture remedies for potentially anticompetitive mergers, signaling a significant departure from the practice of the Biden administration...

In a landmark decision with far-reaching implications for private equity-backed ventures and minority investors in Delaware limited liability companies...

On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act).

A couple of quick observations resulting from a quick read of a "standard" founder vesting agreement.

Technology companies typically begin to think about corporate social responsibility in the context of "giving back to the community" once they have become large, established market players with a track record of profitability.