Practice Areas
Corporate
Val represents companies with revenues up to $100M. Many of her clients operate in a fast-paced and dynamic industry, often with emerging and advanced technologies. Val offers cost-effective outside general counsel services to closely-held, family-owned, and mid-sized growing companies in various industries. Val can help protect founders and key employees from common pitfalls.
Corporate formation and structuring entities
- C-Corp, S-Cor, LLC, Partnerships, DBAs, etc.
Drafting and reviewing contracts and agreements
- Confidentiality and nondisclosure
- Employee and employer
- Funding
- Angel and seed
- Series
- Venture
- Intellectual property
- Product sales
- Technology licensing
- Hardware & software
- Joint venture
- Product development
- OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
- Vendor
Equity and dilution of ownership
- Stock and options
Fraud and abuse/compliance
General corporate matters
Golden parachutes and Section 280G
Litigation avoidance
- Best practices
Purchase and sale of business
- Asset purchase
- Stock purchase
- Biotech
- Biomedical
- Construction
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- High tech
- Software
- Prepared a privately owned company for sale, which resulted in a public company purchasing it for approximately 40% of its gross revenue
- Represented a key employee with ownership interests during multiple rounds of venture financing and before the company’s ultimate IPO
- Obtained common share stock purchase for an employee during a company sale
- Drafted technology licensing agreements for a semiconductor company
- Drafted product development and supply agreements involving a major defense contractor
- Identify anti-kickback and false claims liability and institute corrective action for a healthcare services company
PRACTICE AREAS
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau