Business Development/Joint Ventures
Weinberg Gonser attorneys understand how to get deals done and achieve identified goals. We help our clients negotiate from a position of value, opportunity and strength. Our attorneys provide positioning and market knowledge to executives and founders alike in a wide range of industries, and in finance (including capital raising), licensing, structuring for growth, and more, across nearly all industries.
Services and Added Value Include:
- Access to in-house business development officers and lawyers for major agencies and brands
- Licensing of intellectual property, including trade secrets, technology, name and likeness, trade and service marks
- Advice on distribution and sales, both domestic and international
Our attorneys also have extensive experience structuring complex transactions, strategic alliances and joint ventures designed to develop all manner of business opportunities, including commercialization of technology and other intellectual property rights.
Corporate Counseling:Â
Our attorneys also have extensive experience structuring complex transactions, strategic alliances and joint ventures designed to develop all manner of business opportunities, including commercialization of technology and other intellectual property rights.
Services Include:
- Financing agreements and introduction to banking relationships
- Employee, officer and independent contractor agreements
- Lease negotiation and review
- Oversight on vendor relationships
- Risk identification and elimination
- Corporate structuring for financings, growth and control
Added Value Includes:
- Improved contractual and employee relationships
- Business advice and legal protection
- Significant litigation cost reductions
- Revised and increased bank credit lines and loans
- Introductions to trusted third-party professionals and services
Corporate Formation and Governance
Weinberg Gonser Frost organizes emerging growth companies and structures the equity relationships among founders, employees and investors; assists private placement financings with investments from venture capital funds and other sources; establishes cost-effective employee benefit programs, including equity and compensation-based incentive programs; and structures corporate partnerships and joint venture relationships.
Services Include:
- Advice on fundraising and corporate structuring
- Advising on appropriate type of entity and jurisdiction
- Entity formation (i.e., corporations, LLCs, partnerships, joint ventures)
- Drafting of term sheets and private placement memoranda
- Agreements among founders, members, owners and shareholders
- Establishing boards of directors and advisory boards
- Advising boards of directors on fiduciary duties and powers
- Advising minority and controlling shareholders involved in acquisitions
Added Value Includes:
- Access to our relationships in the growth-capital community
- Comprehensive understanding of deal structures and finance
- Advice and explanation of entity choices
- Efficient and expedited entity formation
- Securities exemptions and cost effective offerings