LOES advises clients on a wide range of commercial and transactional matters.
Practice Areas
Start-Ups
Form LLCs and corporations
Entity selection
Operating Agreements
Founders Agreements
Stockholders Agreements
Issuance of founders equity
IP Assignments
Raise money, from term sheets to closing, from “friends and family,” angels and institutional and strategic investors
SAFEs
Convertible Notes
Debt
Equity (Preferred Stock/Preferred LLC Units)
Angel Investor Tax Credits
Securities law guidance and filings
Negotiate transactions relating to IP and technology
Assignments
Licences
Handle employee and independent contractor issues
Offer letters and Employment Agreements
Independent Contractor/Consultant Agreements
IP assignments
Equity Incentive Plans
Manage cap tables
M&A transactions (exits or equity “rollovers”) and IPOs
Established Companies
M&A Transactions
Asset sales
Stock sales
Mergers
Equity “rollover” transactions
Commercial Contracts
MSAs
Services Agreements
Joint Venture Agreements
Corporate or limited liability company “clean-up”
Equity issuance and transfer documents
Authorizing resolutions
Cap table management
Corporate governance matters
Actions of boards of managers/directors and members/stockholders
Borrowing/Lending transactions
Loan Agreements and Promissory Notes
Guarantees
Security Agreements
Pledges
Employee and independent contractor issues
Offer letters and Employment Agreements
Independent Contractor/Consultant Agreements
IP assignments
Confidentiality Agreements
Equity Incentive Plans
Employee compliance manuals and policies
Investors