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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 248

Food Venture Financing Trends - Saudi Arabia-headquartered food tech startup Calo, specializing in direct-to-consumer meal subscription services, secured $39 million in a Series B extension, which will enable them to...more

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When trustee’s unauthorized self-dealing causes no direct harm to trust corpus can trustee still be surcharged?

Profit narrowly defined is total revenue minus total expenses, i.e., net gain. Profit broadly defined is merely a synonym for benefit. When a trustee’s unauthorized self-dealing directly harms the trust estate, the trustee is...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

UK Founder Series: Secondaries and Share Schemes – What Employers Need to Know

Orrick's Founder Series offers monthly top tips for UK startups on key considerations at each stage of their lifecycle, from incorporating a company through to possible exit strategies. The Series is written by members of our...more

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Employing a trust-law hypothetical to illustrate the universal preliminary injunction’s incompatibility with equity doctrine that...

A federal trial judge in the course of adjudicating a controversy temporarily enjoins nationwide enforcement of a law. The universal preliminary injunction (UPI), however, is incompatible with the Anglo-American legal...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Say Goodbye to Paper Cuts: Section 83(b) Elections May Now Be Filed Online

In late 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) introduced Form 15620 to provide a standardized mechanism for taxpayers to make elections under Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). More recently in 2025,...more

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Online Filing of Section 83(b) Elections Is Here!

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Last year, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Form 15620 for taxpayers to make elections under section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, an important part of US tax planning for founders, employees, board...more

Hogan Lovells

UK Equity Capital Markets: New UK public offers and admissions to trading regime in force in early 2026

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On 15 July 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final rules for the new UK public offers and admissions to trading regime which will take effect on 19 January 2026, replacing the current EU-derived...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Can Companies Grant Equity to Physicians?

Amy Joseph shares advice on: How to navigate fraud & abuse laws Key questions to help your company structure a compensation arrangement...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Tricky Compliance Issues for Companies When an Executive Terminates Employment: Stock Options, Restricted Stock, and Other Equity...

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Executive employment relationships are rarely permanent. When an executive or other senior-level employee terminates employment, companies often must deal with difficult tax, equity, and benefits issues that arise in...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

[Webinar] How the One Big, Beautiful Bill and the Ohio Biennial Budget Bill Will Impact Higher Education Institutions - July 28th,...

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INCLUDING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, STUDENT LOANS AND FINANCIAL AID, REPORTING REQUIREMENTS, ENDOWMENTS, AND ON-LINE LEARNING - Join us for an essential deep dive into the sweeping changes introduced by the “One Big Beautiful...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Broadway Realty Ruling Reinforces Adequate Protection Standard in Multi-Debtor Real Estate Cases

In a significant ruling issued on June 29, 2025, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David S. Jones denied the motion of Broadway Realty I Co., LLC and its 81 affiliated debtors (collectively, the “Debtors”) seeking final authorization to...more

Cooley LLP

Flexible Financing in Focus: Why Convertibles Are Taking Center Stage in 2025

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Market momentum - As we close out the first half of 2025, we are seeing renewed and encouraging energy in the capital markets. While the eight technology initial public offerings (IPOs) that have occurred so far this year...more

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Understanding Dilution: What Every Founder Should Know Before Raising Capital

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For startup founders, few concepts are as important—or as commonly misunderstood—as dilution. It often first arises during a financing round, when investors receive equity (i.e., shares) in exchange for capital. Dilution is...more

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Private Company M&A - Reverse Diligence: Questions Sellers Should Ask of Bidders

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When selling a private company, Sellers understandably focus on providing bidders with a comprehensive data room packed with detailed documents and information about every aspect of their business. They expect bidders to pore...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

#FounderTeams in German Start-ups – Part II: Founder Equity Distribution Patterns

Our research analyzed founder teams and equity distributions across almost 2,200 German start-ups established between 2019 and 2024, each having secured external funding through angel investors or (corporate) venture capital....more

Mintz Edge

Seed Funding Basics

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After forming a company and dividing equity amongst the co-founders, a founding team’s next questions are typically about funding. Often among ambitious founders, venture capital first comes to mind. Venture capital is...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Key Takeaways | Deploying Sponsor Capital: Tactical Financing Moves for Portfolio Companies

During this session, the panelists explored whether portfolio company support should come from the sponsor or lenders when portfolio companies require additional funding. They discussed when to deploy sponsor-backed financing...more

Paul Hastings LLP

UK Equity Capital Markets Insights — May 2025

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In this edition of UK Equity Capital Markets Insights, we report on proposals to refresh the rules for companies on AIM following the introduction last year of new Listing Rules for Main Market companies; an update from the...more

Morris James LLP

Chancery Allows a Claim for Contract Reformation to Proceed Based on Alleged Mutual Mistake

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Kingfishers L.P. v. Finesse US, Inc., C.A. No. 2024-0344-SG (Del. Ch. Oct. 30, 2024) - In this decision, the Court of Chancery held that the plaintiffs failed to state claims for fraud and equitable fraud, but pled...more

DCI Consulting

[Webinar] Using Science to Address Merit, Equity, & Compliance in Employee Selection & Pay - May 14th, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

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Recently, there has been an intense focus on how employers approach employment decisions such as recruitment, hiring, promotions, and pay. Long-standing practices have been challenged in court, through executive actions, and...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Fifth Circuit Permits Claims of Environmental Racism to Move Forward

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In a case that has profound implications for the regulated community, particularly in the realms of environmental justice, civil rights, and land use planning, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has permitted plaintiffs...more

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May a Mentally Incapacitated Trustee Be Held Personally Liable for His Breaches of Trust?

Assume sole trustee of an irrevocable discretionary trust for benefit of deceased settlor’s descendants living from time to time suffers a sudden unforeseen mental disability that causes trustee to imprudently administer the...more

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Parsing the Uniform Trust Code in Isolation Without Regard to the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act...

Intro. The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) is a mere aggregation of tweaks to the corner of equity jurisprudence that long ago gave birth to and currently stewards the trust relationship, hereinafter “the background trust law.”...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Private Equity Incentive Structures: What Management Needs to Know

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If a private equity buyer is exploring an acquisition of the company you manage, and you anticipate remaining involved in the business after the sale, there are a number of options that may be appealing to you. It is likely...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Majority Owners Achieving Balance: Incentivizing Employees Without Giving Up the Keys to the Whole Kingdom

Success is not just an elusive goal – it can also be difficult to maintain once achieved. For majority owners in private companies, achieving success is just the first hurdle, because once they arrive at this pinnacle, they...more

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