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Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

CBM Emerging Companies Venture Capital attorneys:

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough offers a full suite of services to venture capital investors and their portfolio companies. CBM attorneys advise investors and investment companies in analyzing opportunities, conducting due diligence on promising prospects, and negotiating and documenting private placements, including structuring start-up and follow-on debt and equity investments to maximize the value and staging of invested funds.

Strategic Counseling

CBM also provides a high level of attention and direct assistance in forming and organizing portfolio companies, including business structuring, founders' agreements, employment matters, consulting agreements, licensing arrangements, intellectual property registration and protection, strategic alliances and joint ventures, negotiating and documenting permanent funding, and strategic counseling and advice. We strive to assist these entities in achieving successful commercial operations with a long-term focus on liquidity, whether through merger or sale of the company, or an initial public offering. We understand the need for cost-effective, focused legal services for emerging companies husbanding scarce resources.