More than 200 lawyers and professionals worldwide offer cutting-edge expertise to clients venture technology and emerging growth sectors. We deliver sound advice from each of our global locations—including the major entrepreneurial centers of Silicon Valley, New York, Ottawa, London, Munich, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing.

With offices in key technology markets around the world, Dentons offers unparalleled global reach and a unique perspective on evolving industry trends and emerging market opportunities. Whether you’re a company or an investor, you gain access to a strategic partner with the relationships and knowledge to power your success.

You’ll benefit from our experience on many of the most high profile tech transactions on record.

Startup program

Dentons’ Venture Technology group provides founders and early-stage startups with a broad array of catalytic services to help scale their businesses. These include strategic business, financial and legal services that are uniquely orchestrated to remove the obstacles to your company’s successful growth. For more details about our Venture Technology group, visit http://techstartupcenter.com.

We understand startups, as our practice is a boutique within a global platform. We roll up our sleeves daily for our clients—which include early-stage companies enrolled in leading accelerator programs and tech co-working spaces—and provide them with access to a comprehensive set of tools and services addressing a diverse range of key issues and considerations, including:

• Business setup options, founders issues and initial capitalization
• Strategic whiteboarding and business plan reviews
• Intellectual property assessments
• Coaching, mentoring and counseling on term sheets, valuation, market trends and exits
• Employee-related matters and equity-based compensation strategies

Venture capital

Venture capital plays a pivotal role in fueling the growth of the innovation economy. Better, faster and smarter are key characteristics of the cutting- edge, venture-backed emerging growth companies and startups that are disrupting industries and markets around the world.

Operating at the convergence of innovation, strategy, finance and law, Dentons’ lawyers leverage one of the richest sets of venture relationships to date—exceeding 200 venture firms globally. Through programs such as Venture Connection, we help position technology and life sciences companies before targeted, early- stage investors.

You’ll benefit from our experience in completing hundreds of equity- and debt-related venture transactions through a wide range of financing options, including angel investments, seed rounds, series A and follow-on rounds, corporate venture investments, bridge loans and mezzanine financings. Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst ranks our practice in the top ten for venture capital transactions.

Strategic advisory and entrepreneurial services

CEOs, senior executives, boards and entrepreneurs regularly consider a range of business and financial decisions that go beyond purely legal choices. Dentons’ Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice offers strategic advisory services that can assist you in these areas. Each member of our team is uniquely suited to provide this strategic counsel in a way that leverages a broad array of experience.

Our Venture Technology team can become an important part of your executive suite and boardroom by helping you:

• Understand the implications of strategic decisions
• Identify trends in the marketplace
• Facilitate the flow of growth capital
• Position your company for an exit
• Recruit key talent
• Design a pathway to build additional value from core assets, including intellectual property

Exits: Technology IPOs and M&A

The investment cycle for technology and emerging growth companies is driven not only by innovation, but by exits and liquidity events as well. We understand the value-impacting issues that are critical to you and your company.

Empower your business in the marketplace through Dentons’ broad global relationships with investment banks, M&A advisory firms and more. We have navigated countless M&A transactions involving venture capital-backed companies, on both the buy side and the sell side. Move quickly to seize open market windows, thanks to our strong focus on initial public offerings for emerging growth companies on such diverse exchanges as the Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

We live innovation

We have been honored by the Financial Times as a "Most Innovative North American Law Firm" with the top award in the "Forward Thinking Firms" category. The awards honored Dentons' work with NextLaw Labs, the Firm's global collaborative innovation platform, focused on investing in, developing and deploying new technologies to transform the practice of law. For more details about NextLaw Labs, visit http://www.nextlawlabs.com/.

Sector focus

• Digital media
• Mobile and communications technology
• Programmatic advertising
• Gaming
• Software
• Cloud
• E-commerce
• Digital health
• Greentech
• Biotechnology
• Medical devices
• Financial services technology

Whether you are an angel, venture capital fund, strategic investor or family office, we can advise you in connection with investments in your portfolio companies.

Working alongside you, we deliver creative solutions that remove the obstacles to your success.