Early Stage Capital for Growing Businesses: Venture Capital and Angel Investing, Part 1 and Part 2 CLE

Early Stage Capital for Growing Businesses: Venture Capital and Angel Investing, Part 1 and Part 2

August 2014

Early Stage Capital for Growing Businesses: Venture Capital and Angel Investing, Part 1 and Part 2

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Program Description:

Rapidly growing companies often raise capital in "angel" or venture capital transactions. Investors provide capital for growth in exchange for carefully structured equity rights and frequently some form of governance rights. These investors also often provide the company with industry expertise, contacts and access that may be as valuable as financial capital. These funding transactions can take a startup or more mature company to new and greater levels of growth. But they are complex transactions that can involve a dozen or more interrelated documents. This program will provide you with a real-world guide to the stages of an angel or venture capital transaction, review common documents involved in a transaction, cover the most highly negotiated provisions of those documents, and help you spot red flags for your clients.

Day 1 - August 26, 2014:

- Representing clients in "angel" and venture capital transactions

- Current state of angel and venture capital markets & trends in deal terms

- Review of the suite of documents involved in most funding deals

- Understanding the methods of valuation and their impact on successive stages of investment

- Reviewing or drafting terms sheets - pitfalls and opportunities

- Angel investing - equity v. debt, common terms, impact on later venture capital funding

Day 2 - August 27, 2014:

- Review of most highly negotiated terms in funding deals

- Investor protections - information & veto rights, liquidity event rights

- Liquidation preferences, anti-dilution rights, and dividends

- Governance - striking the right balance between founders/managers and investors on the board

- Options pools for founders, managers and employees

Faculty:

Matthew Hyde is an attorney with Cooley, LLP, where he specializes in representing emerging growth companies and venture or private equity investors in various transactions including private and public financings, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions across a variety of industries including clean technology, software and internet, consumer products, and communications. In addition, he serves as outside general counsel to several Colorado-based startup companies and counsels their management teams and boards of directors on general corporate matters and related governance issues.

Christopher Kiyan is an attorney with Cooley, LLP, where his practice focuses on the representation of high growth companies, ranging from the idea-stage startup to the established later-stage business, and the venture capital and private equity investors that invest in high growth companies. He regularly represents his clients in a wide range of equity and debt financings and mergers and acquisitions across a broad spectrum of technology industries.