Corporate & Securities

We provide corporate governance and securities counsel to technology, life science, clean tech and other companies at all stages of development. A significant portion of our practice is devoted to helping early-stage companies meet the challenges of inception and growth. Our lawyers provide strategic advice to these companies and their founding teams on wide-ranging topics including corporate structure; founders agreements; executive compensation; stock options and other incentives; and seed and venture capital financings.

https://mh-llp.com/practice/corporate-securities/

Some of our Corporate & Securities Clients

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquisition is the principal way that startup and emerging growth companies and their investors achieve liquidity and move to the next stage. MH’s attorneys have decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, on both the sell side and the buy side. We represent all categories of participants – target companies, stockholders, buyers, parent entities, boards of directors and committees, investors and executives – in transactions involving all forms of consideration and entity types. Transaction structures we can assist with include mergers, consolidations, reorganizations, conversions, exchanges, asset purchases, stock purchases, spinouts, liquidations and others. Our emerging growth clients have been acquired by brand-name companies, including Google, Yahoo, Nokia, Marvell, Accenture, Dell, TIAA-CREF and Intel, among others. M&H attorneys are focused on negotiating the best deals for our clients and in helping them navigate the complexities of M&A due diligence, structures, definitive agreements and related agreements — at the same or better caliber of work as the large law firms but at a fraction of the cost.

https://mh-llp.com/practice/mergers-acquisitions/

Some of our Mergers & Acquisitions Clients

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Financings & Fund Formation

Representing both companies and investors, we are experts in all types of financing structures for private companies, including venture capital equity financings, venture debt, convertible notes, warrants, private equity, commercial lending, SAFE/KISS instruments, and secondary sale transactions. We’ve represented hundreds of clients in venture capital, angel, and other financing transactions. We know what the venture community wants and expects from companies, enabling faster and more confident fundraising.

We have decades of experience representing a wide variety of investors in the formation and maintenance of their investment entities and the evaluation, negotiation, and protection of their investments. Our clients include individual investors, angel groups, seed funds, venture funds and secondary funds. We also represent individuals who are joining or leaving general partners and other fund managers.

Our fund formation practice includes the formation of investment funds and special purpose investment vehicles, regulatory and securities compliance, the admission and withdrawal of managers, hiring and departure of employees and consultants, issuance of carried interest and transfers of interests in fund and management entities.

In our individual investor practice, we represent high net worth individuals such as angel investors, founders and C-level executives, protecting their interests in critical equity-based transactions such as financings, mergers/acquisitions, and executive compensation arrangements.

We also represent individual and institutional buyers and sellers of securities in the secondary markets in transactions that include purchases of private company securities from individuals and venture and corporate funds, acquisitions of portfolios from venture and corporate funds, purchases of partnership interests from limited and general partners and acquisitions of investment funds.

https://mh-llp.com/practice/financings/

Some of our Financings & Fund Formation Clients

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Intellectual Property & Tech Transactions

Intellectual property is the lifeblood of technology companies. We counsel licensors, licensees, developers and investors in developing, protecting, and commercializing that intellectual property successfully. We represent established and emerging companies in technology, life science, clean tech and other sectors in a wide variety of strategic technology transactions, including agreements to develop, acquire, license, test, market, distribute, brand, and protect technology and related intellectual property rights.

We help negotiate both simple and complex transactions for acquiring, selling and commercializing technology and intellectual property rights; including negotiations involving transnational transactions, with outsourcing and foreign distribution. We are intimately familiar with the legal, regulatory, technical and business issues that arise when engaging in IP-related technology transactions, both domestic and foreign.

https://mh-llp.com/practice/ip/

Some of our Intellectual Property & Tech Transactions Clients

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Employment

We provide employment advice and training to companies of all sizes, working with business owners, executives, managers, and Human Resources professionals so they can comply with California’s challenging employment laws. Our attorneys counsel employers and executives on employee contracts and company policies, and work closely with clients to address complex matters involving performance management and disciplinary action, leaves of absence, terminations and severance, and workplace investigations. We also help efficiently resolve claims involving compensation, equity, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, theft of trade secrets, and non-solicitation, so companies can avoid costly litigation and get back to business.

https://mh-llp.com/practice/employment/