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Total Credits: 7.0 Professional Practice
Technically, any new business is a “startup,” regardless of what it does. But there are significant differences between a “small business” engaged in a basic retail or service business operated by its founders, and a “venture startup” backed by outside investors that is engaged in a manufacturing, high technology, e-commerce, Internet or media business. One of the most common mistakes business attorneys make is to confuse the two, assuming that what works for an antiques store will also work for an e-commerce website.
When representing an entrepreneurial company, you cannot afford to be a “specialist”. Your client will expect at least a certain level of familiarity with corporate, contract, intellectual property, employment, international, immigration, tax and securities law issues they will face in building its business and raising capital. As fast-moving, demanding risk takers with limited funds to pay for legal services, startup ventures and their founders will also challenge your time management, client management and ethical practice skills to the utmost.
This program focuses on representing the venture startup and dealing with the often complicated legal, tax, financial and ethical issues involved in working with fast-growing enterprises run by time-challenged entrepreneurs and backed by professional investors.
Part One Includes:
• Choosing the Right Legal Entity for a Startup Venture
• Corporate shareholders' Agreements and LLC Operating Agreements
• Your Client's "Social Mission": for-Profit, Not-forProfit, Benefit Corporation or "B Corp"
• Basic Tax Issues for the Startup Venture
• Capitalzing the Startup Business
• Intellectual Property Issues of the Startup Venture
• Representing the Web-Based Venture
Speakers:
Maureen Crush, Esq., Crush & Varma Law Group, Fishkill, NY
Clifford R. Ennico, Esq., Law Offices of Clifford R. Ennico, Fairfield, CT
John M. D’Aquila, CPA, D’Aquila & Company LLP, New Rochelle, NY
Teige Sheehan, Esq., Ph.D., Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, P.C., Albany, NY
Materials
| Front Pages and Table of Contents | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT Choosing the Right Legal Entity for a Startup Business - Maureen Crush, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Outline - Choosing the Right Legal Entity for a Startup Business - Maureen Crush, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT Corporate Shareholders and LLC Operating Agreements - Maureen Crush, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Outline - Corporate Shareholders and LLC Operating Agreements - Maureen Crush, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT What Are Buy-Sell Provisions PowerPoint - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Outline - Outline Buy Sell Provisions - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Your Client's Social Mission For-Profit, Not-for-Profit Benefit Corporations or B Corp Powerpoint - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Your Client's Social Mission Handout 1 - Article 17, Benefit Corporations - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Your Clients Social Mission Handout 2 - Affidavit of Shareholder of B Corp - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Your Client's Social Mission Handout 3 - Annual Benefit Report - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT Tax Issues of the Startup Venture - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. and John M. D'Aquila, CPA | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT Capitalizing the Startup Business - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Convertible Promissory Note - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Letter Granting Key Employee Right to Receive Percentage of Change in Control reprinted with permission from Clifford E. Ennico and Thomason West - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Grid Promissory Note Between Small Business Entity and Individual Owner reprinted with permission from Clifford E. Ennico and Thomason West - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Phantom Stock Plan reprinted with permission from Clifford E. Ennico and Thomason West - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Intellectual Property Issues of the Startup Venture - Tiege P. Sheehan, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| PPT Representing the Web-Based Business - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Representing the Web Based Business Handout 1 Reseller Agreement - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Representing the Web-Based Business Handout 2 - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Representing the Web-Based Business Handout 3 - California Provisions - Clifford R. Ennico, Esq. | Available after Purchase | ||
| Speaker Biographies | Available after Purchase | ||
| Course Materials - Day 1 - Representing the Start-Up Business (4 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Course Materials - Day 2 - Representing the Start-Up Business (6.5 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||