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Technology Company
The Technology Company lawyers of Ropes & Gray have years of experience in organizing, financing, and advising technology businesses across the country. The firm has a long history of providing technology companies at all stages of growth with creative, practical advice in a cost-effective manner. Our extensive industry expertise and relationships, combined with our capabilities across critical legal disciplines, permit us to meet the full needs of technology companies across industries.
The breadth of our practice in representing early stage technology companies and venture capital investors allows us to offer our technology clients a complete understanding of the issues and concerns on both sides of a venture capital financing and positions us to foster business relationships between our emerging company clients and the venture capital investors that we represent.
As a core part of the firm’s practice, the Technology Company Practice routinely works with lawyers from other firm practice groups to deliver seamless service to clients. The firm’s team-oriented approach to service gives clients the highest levels of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.
The firm represents a large and varied portfolio of companies in industries such as life sciences, software, hardware, internet content and services, telecommunications, networking, and other industries.
Your Business Partner
When a technology company hires Ropes & Gray, it is hiring both a legal advisor and a business partner. We are familiar with both the opportunities and challenges facing today’s technology companies at each stage of their evolution – from helping the founders of an emerging company develop a business plan, to assisting clients in evaluating, negotiating, and structuring financial transactions and other commercial arrangements, to working with in-house counsel on daily legal and business matters. We routinely develop and implement mergers, acquisitions, business combinations and spin-off transactions, joint ventures, stock and asset sales, and public and private offerings for our technology company clients.
Depth and Breadth
Lawyers in our Technology Company Practice work closely with attorneys in other firm practice areas to provide our technology clients the breadth of knowledgeable guidance they need.
- Our Tax Practice provides advice on domestic and international tax structuring, including mergers & acquisitions and cross-border transactions.
- The Intellectual Property Group helps clients build and protect their intellectual property portfolios with a goal of maximizing the potential of intangible assets. These attorneys have combined extensive legal and industry experience to help clients structure and evaluate transactions in a meaningful way.
- Our Employee Benefits and Labor & Employment lawyers counsel on all aspects of the employment arrangement: offer letters, employment agreements, employment policies, benefit plans, and equity incentive plans.
- Our Real Estate experts help our technology company clients secure their facilities and plan for expansion.
How We Help Our Clients
We have assisted numerous technology company clients with the following representative matters:
- Forming the company, including establishing founders’ arrangements, initial capital structure, and advisory boards;
- Raising initial capital, including "Angel" financings;
- Developing and structuring competitive employee incentives and benefits;
- Developing an intellectual property portfolio, including pursuing patents if appropriate;
- Obtaining venture capital, debt financing, and other capital;
- Entering into commercial arrangements, joint development agreements, and other strategic relationships;
- Completing initial public offerings and follow-on offerings; and
- Structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions.
Contact
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