Orrick is one of the premier legal advisors for emerging companies. We offer our clients:

• In-depth experience representing emerging companies
• A focus on emerging companies
• Formative counseling
• A network of strong investor and other relationships
• Capabilities that scale with our clients as they grow
• Global resources

Today’s emerging companies combine energy and innovation with a focus on long-term growth and success. Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers merges deep experience and commitment to high-growth businesses with a broad global platform that scales with our clients as they grow.

Experience

Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group represents more than 500 venture-backed emerging growth companies in Silicon Valley and more than 600 worldwide, so we understand how to help your business with its legal needs. Representative clients include:

Focus

Orrick lawyers understand your business and legal needs because we are dedicated to counseling emerging technology and life sciences companies, as well as the venture capital and investment banking firms that serve them. Orrick also leverages technology by utilizing deals databases and an extensive forms system..

Formative Counseling

Orrick lawyers provide world-class strategic advice to emerging companies and their founding teams with respect to corporate structure, founder's agreements, employment law matters, stock options, executive compensation and best practices for working with boards of directors. Understanding the needs of emerging companies, Orrick offers flexible fee arrangements in the early-stage.

Network

Orrick’s relationships create a network of resources for clients. Our lawyers have relationships with more than 100 venture capital firms that have funded our clients. But the network doesn’t stop there; Orrick lawyers have strong ties with many investment banks and accounting firms, national laboratories, universities, private equity funds and public companies. We put our network to work for our clients.

Scale

It is no accident that Orrick represents more than 30 public technology companies on corporate matters—many of them were clients long before their initial public offerings. Orrick lawyers understand how to scale with companies that start in the “garage” and end up on NASDAQ.

Beyond technology, Orrick represents many well-known large public companies, including Micrus Endovascular and Gap, Inc. We have advised clients on numerous public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, our lawyers counsel clients on day-to-day corporate matters, ranging from filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and corporate governance matters to joint ventures and strategic alliances. Orrick’s 21 offices mean that our services can scale as our clients grow globally.

Resources

Orrick has more than 100 lawyers dedicated to emerging companies, and with more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide, Orrick is one of the few full-service firms with a significant presence on both U.S. coasts and in Europe and Asia.

Our clients look to us to be more than just corporate counsel. We also provide emerging companies with critical services related to other areas of law. Orrick boasts several destination practices, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property counseling and due diligence, technology transactions, employment law, compensation and benefits, tax and securities litigation.

Contact

For more information, or to schedule a meeting, please contact one of our partners or send an email to emerging@orrick.com.

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