ReedLogic Seminars
VC Experts has teamed with ReedLogic, the largest producer of video seminars and video briefs featuring lawyers and C-Level professionals (CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO) from the world's top companies. ReedLogic videos utilize a proprietary methodology for enabling busy professionals to get executive smart on any business or legal topic, allowing them to speak intelligently with anyone on the topic after watching the video. ReedLogic videos enable busy professionals to get executive smart on business and legal topics in a fraction of the time it would take to travel to a seminar or read an entire book on the subject. All ReedLogic videos are led exclusively by leading executives who are foremost authorities on their topics. ReedLogic videos have featured partners from over half of the world's 250 largest law firms and executives from hundreds of blue-chip companies.
Video Strategy Sessions: Negotiating & Structuring Every Major Venture Capital Deal Document
ReedLogic is pleased to present a Video Strategy Session on "Negotiating & Structuring Every Major Venture Capital Deal Document - Specific Ideas for Stock Purchase Agreements, Investor Rights Agreements, Shareholders Agreements & More From Top VC Lawyers You Can Use to Enhance Your Current Client Strategies." Capitalize on your down time during your next flight, train ride or gym workout and develop ideas on ways to update your deal strategies from the keynote speakers in this video.
The 220-minute Video Strategy Session, which is broken up into three different segments, is guaranteed to enhance your current client strategies with new ideas and key points that will have an immediate impact on your deal strategies that you can begin using right away in your practice. The Video Strategy Session features the insights of Julio Vega (Partner, Bingham McCutchen), Walter A. Wright III (Partner, Rich May LLP) and Michael Rennock (Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP). Personalize their best practices to enhance your own deal strategies and stay up to date on the latest thought leadership. The Video Strategy Session focuses on:
- A detailed look at the most up-to-date and successful best practices and deal strategies being used in venture capital financing transactions
- Updated negotiation strategies for valuations, management compensation, stock options, exit clauses, dilution terms, board member seats and more
- New strategies being used to evaluate deal risk and ways to proceed in such situations
- Deal strategies for structuring transactions based on investor favorable or management team favorable
- Threshold issues: Type of Security, Management/ Governance structure, Risks & Due Diligence
- Influence of External Factors: Industry and Market Status
- Analyzing steps in a VC investment: Terms sheets, Negotiated documents, & Closing documents - What's Different Now Versus Previous Years?
- Articles of Incorporation / Certificate of Incorporation - What's Different Now Versus Previous Years?
- Shareholders Agreement/ Voting Agreement - What's Different Now Versus Previous Years?
- Founders Vesting Agreement - What's Different Now Versus Previous Years?
- Case studies of other deals and what they mean for your clients
Turn your next flight, train ride or trip to the gym into profitable down time by igniting new ideas from watching this ReedLogic video. Upon your order being placed, ReedLogic will immediately send you the video on CD for your computer and/or iPod.
Praise for ReedLogic Video Seminars:
"A tremendous time saver for the busy attorney or executive..." - Michael Goshko, Partner, Burns & Levinson
"Thorough, informative and interesting - these videos are an efficient, effective means of gaining in depth insight..." - Greg Nowak, Partner, Pepper Hamilton
"Up-to-date and accessible legal and business intelligence is critical to successfully operating in today's fast-moving market. ReedLogic Seminars are an invaluable provider of this important information." - Ira Bogner, Partner, Proskauer Rose
About ReedLogic Seminars - Videos That Ignite New Ideas for Busy Professionals
ReedLogic videos enable professionals to quickly and efficiently:
- Analyze the impact of recent changes and cases in the marketplace
- Comprehend high-level insights and answer difficult questions on specific topics
- Access hundreds of key thought leaders
- Generate new ideas and insights that can have an immediate top and bottom line impact on your practice
About the Speakers
Julio Vega is a partner in Bingham McCutchen's business area, where he concentrates on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and licensing transactions. He represents emerging-growth and established companies in all areas of technology, including advanced materials, biotechnology, e-commerce, nanotechnology, networking, software and telecommunications. He regularly counsels start-ups on equity-based compensation matters, equity finance strategy, executive employment arrangements, general business strategy, and other general corporate issues. He has also represented venture capital firms in connection with portfolio company investments.
Walter A. Wright, III a Managing Director of the Boston business law firm, Rich May, leads a law and strategic counseling practice intensely focused on the organizational, venture financing, operational, capital and transactional requirements of emerging companies and entrepreneurs as well as representing venture capital funds and angel groups in investment transactions. Walt Wright is a magna cum laude graduate of both Boston College Law School (J.D.) and Tufts University (B.A., M.A). He serves in significant legal and strategic capacities with major entrepreneurs, emerging companies, executives, technologists and venture investors including: lead general and special legal counsel, corporate officer, stockholder, strategic advisor, personal counsel and limited partner. His complex and diverse practice embraces all aspects of the organization and operation of corporations, limited liability companies and other business ventures and non-profit organizations, securities law, corporate finance (including private placements, angel rounds and public offerings), technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, joint ventures, digital, internet and e-commerce law, employee relations, corporate governance, preventative counseling, outsourcing and real estate. He represents firms, investors and entrepreneurs in numerous industries including the venture capital, computer and multimedia, e-commerce and internet, informational service, public relations and media communication, publishing, insurance, electronic, telecommunication, real estate, aquaculture and environmental business sectors. A citizen of the United States and the European Union (Ireland), Walter Wright's clients have New England, national and international operations and offices.
Michael J.W. Rennock is a partner in the New York office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Corporate, Securities, and Finance group. He is a transactional attorney whose practice focuses primarily on corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity/venture capital. He also counsels corporate clients on a regular basis with respect to corporate and securities law matters. He represents issuers, investors, and investment banks in a variety of financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. He has worked on convertible and high-yield debt financings, Rule 144A offerings, various financing transactions in Latin America, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, project financings, spinoffs, and secured and unsecured borrowings and joint ventures. Mr. Rennock represents public and private companies in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, wireless communications, electronic data transmission, retail, healthcare, child care, banking, energy, and transportation.