Businesspeople speak in terms of risks and rewards, not warranties and indemnities. This explains why family office professionals, when reviewing investment and shareholders’ agreements, often feel like they are reading hieroglyphics. Thus, the need arises for a legal version of the Rosetta stone, the slate that showed hieroglyphics side-by-side with Greek, helping scholars decode the distinct characters comprising Egypt’s formal writing system. In this insight piece, we offer the lawyer’s equivalent of the Rosetta Stone for cross-border venture and growth capital transactions – a “Risketta Stone” – to help you understand the legal jargon surrounding common investor protections and the risks they are intended to address.

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