Karr Tuttle Campbell's Emerging Company and Venture Capital group consists of a highly experienced team of attorneys focused on providing legal services to start-ups, emerging companies, entrepreneurs, and venture capital funds.  

Every attorney in the group approaches the client relationship as a chance to provide strategic advice, access to sources of capital, deal flow and business development opportunities – all aimed toward client-defined goals. We partner with each of our clients by investing the time to understand their business and industry.  Our lawyers work in teams customized to meet a specific client's needs in an efficient and cost-effective manner. 

Emerging Companies

Karr Tuttle Campbell has represented hundreds of emerging companies in a wide range of industries including information technology, consumer products, communications, Internet and e-commerce, retail and manufacturing.  We offer the full range of services a budding enterprise will need throughout its life cycle, including:

• Providing essential business advice and guidance in connection with entity formation

• Help in drafting effective private placement memorandums, business plans and investor presentations

• Negotiating venture capital transactions

• Developing, acquiring and protecting intellectual property

• Negotiating strategic alliances, joint ventures, licensing arrangements and other critical transactions

• Structuring equity and non-equity employee compensation incentives

• Establishing an effective corporate governance structure

• Structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions

• Completing initial public offerings and follow-on offerings

Venture Capital

Karr Tuttle Campbell has represented venture capital and private equity funds.    We provide the full range of services a venture capital fund or a corporate venture arm needs in connection with executing its investment strategies, including:

• Venture fund and corporate venture arm fund formation

• Evaluating and structuring initial and follow-on investments

• Evaluating intellectual property portfolios of target companies

• Counseling partners on corporate governance relating to portfolio company boards

• Advising on continuing relationships with portfolio companies

• Developing and executing exit strategies

The lawyers in our Emerging Company and Venture Capital group have developed a deep understanding of market standards and how to negotiate and structure transactions to build long-term, successful relationships between venture capitalists and emerging companies and between venture capitalists and their limited partners.

Integrated Services

Our team’s attorneys coordinate the provision of integrated service and strategic advice to emerging company and venture capital clients across multiple disciplines, including: intellectual property; mergers and acquisition; taxation; corporate finance and securities; employee benefits and executive compensation; business and finance; and labor and employment.