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Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 75 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Startup Ecosystem and Its Legal Foundations with Syed Musheer Ahmed, Joshua Chu, and David Cameron
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From Banks to FinTech: The Evolution of Small Business Lending — The Consumer Finance Podcast
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
The Future of Supply Chains: Chris Andrassy on Using AI to Predict & Prevent Disruptions
How IP Can Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Strategies for Startups at Foundation
A Guide to SEP: Standard Essential Patents for Tech Startups
Innovation in Compliance: Visionary Leadership with Jackson Calame
The Entrepreneur's Journey with Kass and Mike Lazerow
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 6: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Venture Capital: Key Considerations for Startups
Creating Impact Through Innovation: Brandon Kashani on Leading Mission-Driven Startups
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AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Driving Towards Greater Transparency and Sustainability in the EV Market with Davide Giacobbe and ScoutIt
What's Shaping the Capital Raising Environment?
Raising a Down Round and How to Be Prepared
JONES DAY TALKS®: Five Pillars of Series A Shareholder Rights: A Discussion for VC Investors
Food Venture Financing Trends - The Better Meat Co., a plant-based meat company, raised $31 million in its Series A financing....more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “OBBB”), which makes a number of highly beneficial changes to the tax treatment of Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) acquired by...more
Our Investing in Emerging Tech series covers the need-to-know legal issues for businesses that are buying, selling, collaborating with or looking to invest in emerging tech companies. In this article, the first of our series,...more
Acquihires have been a part of Silicon Valley for quite some time now. Larger tech companies come in and acquire startups mainly for their talent, as opposed to their products or technology. However, starting with ex-FTC...more
Last month, a startup’s Series A nearly fell apart when investors and founders realized their different calculation methods produced a $750,000 variance. The culprit was not deception or bad faith, but rather a complex...more
Welcome to the inaugural episode of PDS+, a new podcast series hosted by Morrison Foerster partners Kaylee Cox Bankston and Boris Segalis. The podcast is dedicated to exploring the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and...more
If your startup continues to follow the proverbial “hockey stick” of uninterrupted, exponential growth that you presented in your seed round pitch deck, you might always have easy access to capital and never encounter a...more
Jeremy Sherer and Alexandra Wood offer tips on: How to establish a PC-MSO How PC-MSO considerations vary from state to state. Alexandra: What are structuring considerations for early-stage healthtech companies? Jeremy: It...more
Cooley handled 238 reported venture capital financings in Q2 2025, representing $6.5 billion of invested capital. Deal count increased by more than 20% across all stages of financing compared to the previous quarter, with...more
Space Technology Investments Clear the Launch Tower in 2025Tom Cowan Investments in space technology are off to a strong start in the first half of 2025. The rising trend over the last four years, as mentioned in a...more
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
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), signed into law on July 4, 2025, introduced a number of significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Among the OBBBA’s most notable changes are the revisions to Section 1202...more
Despite continued macroeconomic headwinds and a cautious investment climate, Mintz’s Venture Capital and Emerging Companies practice remained highly active throughout 2024 and into the first half of 2025. Our team advised on...more
Welcome back to the Orrick Legal Ninja Snapshot! In today's fast-evolving venture capital landscape, we're seeing a new twist on an old favorite: sunset or fall-away provisions in antidilution protection. As the German VC...more
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed a budget reconciliation bill entitled the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” (the Act). The Act extends the tax cuts that were enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, adds a...more
In the wake of headline-grabbing redomiciles many executives are reevaluating whether to form or maintain their companies in Delaware or to look instead to other jurisdictions such as Nevada and Texas. In this piece, we break...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - Bengaluru-based functional food startup Lo! Foods raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding round to enhance operational capabilities and launch new product lines....more
This year, U.S. VC funding into the life sciences sector has cooled: Q1 softness was followed by a decade low in VC transactions in Q2. Despite the moderation in dealmaking volume, investors continued to deploy sizable...more
Prior to the early 1900s, New Jersey was the preferred state of incorporation for U.S. businesses. Eager to cash in on America’s epic industrialization via franchise tax revenues, Delaware directly challenged New Jersey’s...more
AI continues to be the standout in venture dealmaking, with Q1 2025 extending the sector’s winning streak. AI companies raised more capital and achieved significantly higher pre-money valuations than their non-AI...more
With a name like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), you know two things right away: (1) it’s a mouthful, and (2) you’re going to have to wade through a lot to find the useful parts. Fortunately, two tax lawyers already...more
Welcome to our new client spotlight series, Founder Focus, in which we share insights from clients in our global Fintech practice. In this first issue, David Ajalat, Goodwin partner and Fintech practice co-chair, interviews...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 119th Cong § 70431 (2025)) (“Act”) was signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, after narrowly passing the House on July 3, 2025....more
On June 30, 2025, New Jersey enacted legislation that now incorporates the US federal qualified small business stock (QSBS) rules under Section 1202, effective for dispositions of QSBS for tax years beginning on or after...more
In a move to bolster investment in small business, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”), signed into law on July 4, 2025 (the “Applicable Date”), introduced significant changes to the Qualified Small Business Stock...more