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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

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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 & Emery

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

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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

A Sharper Focus: Exploring VC Side Letters

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A side letter in the venture capital sector is an agreement between an investor and the company it is investing in that entitles the investor to certain contractual rights, which supplement and are in addition to other rights...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

A New Age of PerFFFection June 2024 - Potential Impact of UCC Article 12 on Fund Finance Transactions

At the bottom of the stack in investment fund structures, there are generally “real” assets—things like equity interests in portfolio companies, mortgage loans, commercial receivables, maybe even bricks and mortar. Fund...more

Adams & Reese

Georgia and Florida Pass Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws

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To Whom Do the Laws Apply? What are the Required Disclosures? Georgia and Florida join others in passing commercial financing disclosure laws – new state regulations requiring disclosure statements from certain commercial...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financing Options for an Early Stage Company in the Alternative Protein Industry

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This article is Part A of the fifth alert in our series of alerts focussed on the alternative protein industry. It provides an overview of financing options for players in the industry and specifically discusses information...more

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An Ounce of Prevention: Preparing for Your Pre-Seed Financing Round

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Benjamin Franklin famously cautioned that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Although Franklin was warning the people of Philadelphia that preventing a fire is better than fighting one, the same admonition...more

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

The Federal Reserve’s Powers to Pave the Way for Continued Development and Construction Through Covid-19

As the Coronavirus has encapsulated the world, government go-aheads to construction firms are welcome relief to the industry. Lenders’ collective reaction to the current economic concerns is another matter....more

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