Industries: Life Sciences

Emerging Growth Company Services

McGuireWoods has extensive experience as counsels to emerging growth companies. We understand the unique issues and demands on emerging growth companies. While these companies are often financially constrained, there’s still a need for sophisticated legal representation that can be executed thoughtfully and efficiently.

General corporate - We provide counsel and advice on entity formation; review, recommend and negotiate financing options and provide corresponding tax advice. We have negotiated corporate and limited liability buy/sell agreements, stock option or other equity plans and agreements, and employment agreements.

Finance and securities offerings - We represent emerging private and public companies at every stage of their development, from identifying and recommending financing sources such as angel and seed investors to assisting with multi-billion dollar public equity or debt events.

Mergers and acquisitions - McGuireWoods has an international reputation for its mergers and acquisition work, representing both buyers and sellers in acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. We have much experience in a vast variety of M&A transactions, whether structured as asset or stock deals, and involving relatively small enterprises

Intellectual property - Many emerging growth companies have highly developed and sophisticated intellectual property. We have worked with these companies to get the appropriate protection in place to limit or block misuse by employees, investors or competitive entities. We have also assisted clients in the transfer of intellectual property rights from individual owners to entities and in protecting and maintaining those rights during mergers or acquisitions.

Joint venture or strategic alliances - Emerging growth companies often rely on strategic alliances and joint ventures as a cost-effective and quick way to expand their presence or better leverage their technology. We have developed a range of useful instruments, from technology transfer, technology licensing and other technology sharing agreements to co-marketing agreements and fully-integrated joint venture agreements which require asset pooling.

We recognize that new life science enterprises require comprehensive legal services combined with cost-efficient delivery. As a result, McGuireWoods has created alternative billing methods based on required services and existing financial resources.