Startups & Emerging Companies
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 4
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Our emerging business and technology (EB&T) team of 40 partners, backed by more than 130 other corporate partners firmwide, provides growth businesses with personalized and effective long-term representation, from initial start-up to maturity. Our EB&T lawyers in the United States are in major markets on the East and West Coast, including Boston, Princeton, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Southern California.
We offer clients a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to solving a range of complex legal problems, cost-efficient legal services, and value-added access to sources of capital and other business resources. Our lawyers provide legal services well suited to rapidly growing technology and life sciences companies, including guidance on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), intellectual property (IP) protection, employment, international expansion, regulatory, cybersecurity, and tax issues. We leverage experience and domain knowledge developed through our representation of many of the leading technology, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, financial services, and energy companies.
• We represent emerging company clients from formation through multiple financing transactions (including angel and venture financings as well as public offerings).
• We have established relationships with the venture capital and investment banking communities.
Chambers Review
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP assists both investors and emerging companies across a diverse array of legal disciplines, such as financing, IP and tax, with a focus on the life sciences and technology sectors. The team is able to advise on transactions at all stages of a company's life cycle, from inception through angel and venture financing to IPO. It brings to bear an international network of legal professionals, both throughout the USA and overseas in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The department is particularly active in the areas of renewable energy, fintech and healthcare and life sciences.
Work Highlights
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP represented SandboxAQ in its $500m Series D financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is excellent; the lawyers are well connected and super responsive."
"The group are a pleasure to work with. They're very practical and very commercial."
"The team is excellent; the lawyers are well connected and super responsive."
"The group are a pleasure to work with. They're very practical and very commercial."
Notable Practitioners
Andrew Hamilton is well respected for his practice representing emerging companies in venture capital financing and acquisitions.
"He's an excellent lawyer."
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