Viridian's ECVC Group offers dedicated legal services to entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and investment funds. We have a regionally-leading ECVC practice and we regularly advise numerous startups across multiple sectors—including software, life sciences, cleantech, fintech, manufacturing, aquaculture, composites, and advanced materials.
We work closely with these companies to provide practical and cost-efficient guidance on startup issues ranging from optimal corporate structure, fundraising, employment and hiring issues, equity compensation, mergers, acquisitions and other complex strategic transactions. Additionally, we provide a full range of intellectual property counseling, helping clients identify protectable intellectual property and by advising clients on the registration, ownership, protection, exploitation and enforcement of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
We have particular expertise in structuring startup investment transactions—from early seed investment, friends/family and angel investors, through later stage venture capital funding, including complex financial and capitalization modeling to ensure client understand the economics of each capital raise. View a sample of our representative transactions.
We also represent a number of venture capital funds through formation, fundraising, and target company investments, and we work with many other early-stage investors involved in funding startups. We have particular expertise advising foreign VC funds pursuing investments in U.S. target companies. Our clients benefit from decades of collective experience representing both founders and investors.
Representative Clients Include:
