Business Planning: Financing the Start-Up Business and Venture Capital Financing, Fourth Edition

• ISBN: 9781543847482

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  Business Planning: Financing the Start-Up Business and Venture Capital Financing by Therese H. Maynard and Shannon Treviño uses an innovative simulated deal format that is drawn from the “deal-files” of real world practicing lawyers. It integrates the teaching of transactional lawyering skills with the presentation of new substantive law that is critical to the success of a junior corporate lawyer practicing in a transactional setting

  New to the Fourth Edition:

  • Updates to Chapter 1 to reflect developments in the law and the entrepreneurial landscape.

  • Updates to Chapter 2 to reflect the impact of certain aspects of tax reform on choice-of-entity decisions.

  • A thoroughly revised Chapter 4 regarding federal securities laws, incorporating numerous regulatory changes that have been adopted or become effective since the publication of the third edition.

  • Additions and updates to Chapters 8 and 9 to reflect developments in the venture capital industry and in the public capital markets, including direct listings and SPAC transactions.

  • Updates to several of the chapters to reflect legal developments, including changes in California and Delaware corporate law, and intellectual property and equity compensation laws.

  • The introduction of new secondary sources on topics ranging from practical business lawyering skills to SPACs to public benefit corporations.

  Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Integrated teaching of transactional lawyering skills with the presentation of substantive law that is critical to the success of a junior corporate lawyer practicing in a transactional setting

  • Instructions on how to analyze both the legal issues and the business considerations that must be taken into account in planning the structure and negotiating the terms of a capital raising transaction for an early-stage company that allows junior lawyers to hit the ground running

  • A simulated deal format that provides a real-world appreciation for the “life cycle of a deal”

  • Student evaluation based on graded memo assignments representative of the work tasks expected of a junior corporate lawyer practicing in a transactional setting

  • Prepared graded memo assignments that relate directly to the substantive material in the casebook reading assignments

  • An integrated set of teaching materials for faculty, including electronic access to lecture notes, graded assignments and other supplemental materials (all provided through access to the authors’ casebook website), in addition to the text of the book