STEVE MUELLER LEGAL SERVICES

VENTURE CAPITAL:

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Steve Mueller Legal Services has extensive experience advising entrepreneurs, emerging businesses and the venture funds, private equity firms, angels and other investors that finance them. We excel at addressing the needs of emerging businesses and venture capital firms because of our passion and commitment to helping startups grow, combined with our own entrepreneurial spirit. We believe that our experience seeing transactions from both the company and investor perspective enhances our knowledge base and contributes to our practical approach.

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Steve Mueller Legal Services advises emerging businesses and venture-backed companies on all aspects of their life cycle, from entity formation, through funding and growth, and ultimately exit by sale or public offering. Our nationally and internationally recognized team also advises investors in deploying billions of dollars each year in early stage, venture capital, growth equity and late-stage investments.

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Steve Mueller Legal Services takes an industry-focused approach to understanding the business and legal issues faced by our clients. Our industry-first perspective allows us to seamlessly provide real-world solutions to clients in areas including corporate and commercial, intellectual property, licensing, privacy, employment and immigration, real estate and regulatory. ​​

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Steve Mueller Legal Services has a strong commitment to the emerging business community. Our Emerging Business Group assists many new and emerging businesses with all aspects of their formation, growth, financing and development.

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In particular, the group provides services in the following areas (but is not limited to):

• Startup and growth planning, including identifying and structuring an appropriate legal entity, assisting in the preparation of business plans, and structuring and drafting agreements among stockholders and partners.

• Securities law compliance and advice, including structuring the terms of corporate stock, partnership interests and other securities; representation in connection with the offer and sale of securities, including drafting private offering documents and federal and state securities law compliance; negotiating and structuring venture capital investments, debt instruments and other financing relationships; representation in initial public offerings; and securities law compliance by public companies.

• Structuring and drafting employment, consulting and noncompete agreements, and drafting and providing advice regarding various types of stock option and other equity incentive plans, employee stock savings plans and other employee benefit plans.

• Intellectual property services, including procuring, licensing and enforcing patents, trademarks and copyrights, counseling with respect to patentability, validity and infringement issues and developing strategic alliances.

• Negotiating and structuring corporate partner relationships, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, distribution arrangements and franchising relationships.

• General business representation, including advice in connection with bank loans, leases and other business contracts.​

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