Emerging Companies
Overview
Nutter’s Emerging Companies group helps early-stage companies realize value from innovation. In today’s economy, entrepreneurship is transforming how people live, work, and communicate, how we improve health care, and how we consume the brands and products we rely on every day. Rapidly growing companies need flexible, creative partners who can adapt alongside them and help turn ideas into lasting success.
We understand the inherent risks these companies face. Our seasoned team of business and intellectual property lawyers is experienced on all sides of the complex issues emerging companies encounter, giving entrepreneurs and early-stage investors the strategic legal counsel, business perspective, contacts, and expertise they need to navigate the challenges of building a high growth business.
Resources
Our corporate attorneys have deep knowledge across every area that affects emerging companies, including licensing, distribution, e-business, venture capital, and strategic partnering. Our intellectual property lawyers add the legal and scientific depth needed to secure and defend the patents, trademarks, and other rights essential to an emerging company’s future, no matter its technology.
Nutter is a founding member of the TechLaw Group, Inc., a resource network of more than 5,000 lawyers across 17 independent member firms in North America and Europe, with member offices in more than 85 cities worldwide, resources we can draw on, in appropriate cases, to serve our clients’ needs around the globe.
Additionally, we leverage our membership in Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW), a highly-selective collaboration of law firms, and tap into the expertise of more than 4,000 attorneys across 180 international commercial jurisdictions. As the exclusive LAW member firm in Massachusetts, we provide our clients with the legal talent they need to drive their success, no matter where or when they require it.
Our Practice
Our emerging company clients turn to us to:
- Form entities based on issues such as stockholder make-up, anticipated funding sources, and technology strategy
- Protect intellectual property through patent rights, confidentiality and proprietary information agreements with employees and independent contractors, and technology licensing
- Assist with equity financing in compliance with federal and state regulations, including private placements
- Introduce companies to angel and venture capital financing, strategic partners, debt financing, and other sources of capital
- Take maximum advantage of equity incentive compensation while navigating the complex interplay of tax, legal, and accounting considerations
- Negotiate domestic and international OEM/VAR/distribution, manufacturing, and supply agreements, accounting for international tax, competition, and quality-standard requirements
- Structure strategic partnering agreements
- Advise on mergers and acquisitions as both a growth and an exit strategy
- Handle public offerings, ranging from several million dollars to hundreds of millions
As a full-service firm, we can also meet emerging companies’ needs by drawing on our colleagues’ expertise in labor and management relations, litigation, environmental counseling and permitting, debt and lease financing, and specialized estate planning for founders and entrepreneurs.
Our Clients
Nutter supports ventures across the innovation economy:
- Biomedical devices
- Biotechnology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Life sciences
- Software
- Hardware
- Information technology
- Cleantech
- Mobile
- Consumer products
- Analytics
- New media
- Robotics
- Financial technology
- Education technology
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Professionals
- William Bernat
- Mark Burgiel
- Erin Cicchetti
- Suzanne Hamel
- Jonathan Harris
- Kate Henry
- Jeffrey Klayman
- Michael Kushnir
- Thomas Lavan
- Gurunathan Laxmikanthan
- Mark Leonardo
- Jack Lowy
- Thomas Mattioli
- Micah Miller
- Kevin Milton
- Timothy Murphy
- Elizabeth Myers
- Liam O'Connell
- Robert O’Connell, Jr.
- Thomas Rosedale
- Steven Saunders
- Jinal Sharma
- Randolph Treece
- Rohan Vakil
- Tracy Vitols
- Kathleen Williams
- Alexis Yamin
- Kenneth Yoon
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- RIND Snacks
Nutter served as legal counsel to RIND, New York-based makers of functional and sustainable whole fruit snacks, in connection with its closing of a $6.1 million Series A capital raise led by Valor Siren Ventures (VSV), an early-stage investor in sustainability, food, food technology, retail, and retail technology, along with a follow-on investment from Melitas Ventures.
- Ce3, Inc.
Nutter served as legal counsel to Ce3, Inc., a full-service CRO focused on providing early phase oncology clinical development services to the biotechnology industry, in connection with its acquisition by Catalyst Clinical Research, a clinical development organization providing highly customizable clinical research solutions to the global biopharmaceutical industry.
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