UPCOMING EVENTS
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
July 30 2021 - July 30 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series Session 5: Most Common Legal Mistakes of Startup Entrepreneurs
Morrison & Foerster offers a complimentary nine-part series for startup founders, executives, and investors on the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm attendees with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road. Topics covered in this one hour session include:
- Organizational mistakes
- Stock issuance mistakes
- Intellectual property mistakes
- Employment mistakes
- Fundraising mistakes
To register, kindly email your LinkedIn to Vishal Singh at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
August 6 2021 - August 6 2021 |
Session 6: Startup Equity Incentives
Morrison & Foerster offers a complimentary nine-part series for startup founders, executives, and investors on the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm attendees with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road. Topics covered in this one hour session include:
- Founder restricted stock and stock options
- Vesting and repurchase rights (including 83(b) elections and early exercise)
- Stock incentive plans
- Incentive stock options (ISOs) and nonqualified stock options (NSOs)
- Administration of stock option plans and valuation
To register, kindly email Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
August 13 2021 - August 13 2021 |
Session 7: Follow-on Venture Financing Complexities
Morrison & Foerster offers a complimentary nine-part series for startup founders, executives, and investors on the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm attendees with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road. Topics covered in this one hour session include:
- “Down rounds” and antidilution adjustments
- Recapitalizing prior investments
- Pay-to-play financings
- Capitalization tables and financing models
To register, kindly email Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
August 20 2021 - August 20 2021 |
Session 8: Selling Your Startup
Morrison & Foerster offers a complimentary nine-part series for startup founders, executives, and investors on the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm attendees with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road. Topics covered in this one hour session include:
- Typical target corporate structures
- Process considerations
- Acquisition structures (including asset purchases, stock purchases and mergers)
- Key terms of acquisition agreements
To register, kindly email Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
August 27 2021 - August 27 2021 |
Session 9: Open Forum Recap
Join us for an interactive session to recap the issues covered during our eight-week Startup Speaker Series. We’ll devote the full hour to answer audience questions on our curriculum topics:
- Incorporating a startup
- Intellectual property basics for startups
- Raising angel financing (including convertible note financings)
- Raising venture capital investment (deal terms and structure)
- Most common legal mistakes of startup entrepreneurs
- Startup equity incentives,/
- Follow–on venture financing complexities
- Selling your startup
To register, kindly email Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
