The Emerging Growth Companies Team of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is a multidisciplinary group of attorneys focused on representing the unique interests of emerging businesses. We work with all types of rapid-growth companies operating in a wide range of industries, including software, digital media, life sciences, healthcare, alternative energy/cleantech, telecommunications, and technology-enabled services. From initial formation through a successful sale or IPO, we partner with emerging companies through all stages of their development, providing innovative solutions for the legal and business challenges they face.
The Emerging Growth Companies Team of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is a multidisciplinary group of attorneys focused on representing the unique interests of emerging businesses. We work with all types of rapid-growth companies operating in a wide range of industries, including software, digital media, life sciences, healthcare, alternative energy/cleantech, telecommunications, and technology-enabled services. From initial formation through a successful sale or IPO, we partner with emerging companies through all stages of their development, providing innovative solutions for the legal and business challenges they face.
We offer rapidly growing companies the practical guidance and counsel they need to grow and succeed. The members of our Emerging Growth Companies Team are not just seasoned legal professionals, but they also possess deep experience in the industries they serve. They provide a range of legal services that focus on the strategic business goals of our clients. Our attorneys also understand the unique circumstances in which emerging businesses operate – rapid growth, accelerated time frames, and continuous technological change. They know each emerging business has its own story that begins with a novel idea and develops only through the hard work, perseverance and personal sacrifice of the founding entrepreneurs and those who join them. We bring this same commitment to our work for our clients.
Our team has extensive experience representing emerging businesses at all stages of development, ranging from pre-formation start-ups to large industry leading companies. For start-ups, we advise on business strategy and plans, assembling the founding management team, selecting and forming the appropriate business entity, and raising capital from angel investors and/or early stage venture capital funds.
As our clients grow, we also advise them on raising capital from growth stage venture capital funds, strategic investors, and private equity funds, in addition to various forms of debt and mezzanine financing and initial public offerings. We have extensive relationships with investors developed over more than a century of experience that we leverage to help our emerging business clients grow.
We also assist our clients with structuring stock option and other employee incentive plans and preparing employment, consulting, confidentiality, HIPAA, and proprietary information agreements. Members of our team regularly provide counsel to clients regarding federal, state and local regulatory compliance, governmental affairs, and taxation at the local, state, federal and international levels.
Many of our emerging growth company clients are founded upon novel, cutting-edge technology. Our team includes experienced patent lawyers, many of whom hold graduate level degrees in their area of specialization, who have deep experience in assisting our emerging clients in developing and protecting intellectual property rights. This includes not only patents on the original inventions, but also copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other IP rights that are essential to building and protecting their market share and value. We also work with clients to leverage their IP through licensing, development, reseller, distribution, and other strategic agreements that generate revenue streams and other business opportunities. The firm also has a team of experienced litigators skilled in helping emerging clients defend their IP rights.
As emerging businesses grow, many pursue deals to expand operations, acquire other companies, or secure new revenue streams. We ensure not only that the deals we do for clients are legally and technically sound, but that they also fit with the company’s strategic objectives. Whether we’re working on venture financings or M&A transactions, our focus is on doing the deal that’s right for our client’s goals.