Start-Up & Emerging Companies : Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business

by Richard D. Harroch

Here's all the practical information you need to organize, finance and run a new enterprise. Start-Up & Emerging Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business brings you the legal and business savvy of leading experts from law, investment banking and venture capital firms. You'll find extensive coverage the venture financing process and negotiating strategies; corporate, securities and tax laws; corporate governance; registration and investor rights; the interplay between business and legal considerations; limited liability companies; joint ventures and strategic alliances; employee benefit plans; stock options; contracts; accounting procedures; intellectual property strategies; merger agreements and ancillary documents; exit strategies; and developments in Internet law and e-commerce. In addition, this book features over 75 sample forms, clauses, agreements, checklists and term sheets on CD-ROM, documents for use in the formation of a corporation; organizational resolutions; employment agreements and offer letters; and forms for meetings of shareholders and boards of directors. For anyone starting a new enterprise or overseeing its growth, this is the ideal legal guide.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013