Venture and Private Equity Capital |  | |
McAfee & Taft’s Corporate and Securities attorneys regularly work with its clients in the areas of venture capital, private equity capital, mezzanine financing and seed capital to both emerging and established companies. Our multi-disciplinary approach draws on the collective expertise of other practices areas – including intellectual property and technology, corporate governance and finance, tax, real estate, labor and employment, employee benefits and environmental law – to provide efficient and cost-effective representation to venture capital and private equity funds, investors and technology companies.
Our breadth of experience in venture and private equity capital matters extends to the following areas:
- Convertible and subordinated debt
- Convertible preferred stock and limited liability company interest
- Warrants and options
- Securities purchase agreements
- Stockholder and investor rights agreements
- Anti-dilution protection
- Liquidation preferences
- Transfer restrictions
- Rights of first offer and first refusal
- Founders stock and employment contracts
- Management stock and incentive plans
- Private investment/public equity transactions
- Initial Public Offerings
- Secondary Offerings
- Asset and stock sales
- Mergers
- Spin-offs
- Leveraged recapitalizations
- Management and leveraged buyouts
- Going private transactions
- Consolidations and roll-ups
- Special governance rights
- Registration rights
- Information rights