UPCOMING EVENTS
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
April 16 2021 - April 16 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series Session 3: Angel Investing
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:
- Structure of equity investments (including dilution, liquidation preference, participation rights, conversion rights, voting rights and pre-emptive rights)
- Structure of debt investments (including conversion discounts, valuation caps and alternatives at maturity)
- Convertible note derivatives (including SAFEs and KISSs)
- General solicitation, crowdfunding and secondary liquidity
To register, kindly email Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
April 23 2021 - April 23 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series Session 4: Venture Capital Investing
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 capital structure of a venture-backed startup
- Rights, preferences and privileges of preferred stock (including waterfall distribution of acquisition proceeds)
- Capitalization tables and liquidation models
- Venture capital term sheets
- Due diligence process and issues
To register, kindly send your LinkedIn to Vishal Singh at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
April 30 2021 - April 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
May 7 2021 - May 7 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series 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 your LinkedIn to Vishal Singh at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
May 14 2021 - May 14 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series 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 send an email to Vishal Singh with your LinkedIn at ECVCevents@mofo.com.
MoFo ScaleUp Speaker Series
May 21 2021 - May 21 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series 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
May 28 2021 - May 28 2021 |
ScaleUp Speaker Series Session 9: Open Forum Recap
Join us for an interactive session to recap the issues covered during our eightweek 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.
