Parker Poe provides strategic legal counsel to emerging growth companies – including Internet, new media, electronic commerce, networking, information technology, biotechnology, telecommunications and health care companies – as well as technology incubators, investment banks and venture capital firms that service such companies. We counsel client in a full spectrum of sophisticated matters, including financing, mergers and acquisitions, licensing agreements, strategic partnering and technology transfer transactions.

Experience Highlights

• Emerging growth companies – We are committed to the particular needs of our emerging growth clients and are immersed in the legal and business issues that impact their businesses. We help clients refine their business models, set up optimal legal and capital structures, coordinate employment and employee benefit arrangements, identify and protect their intellectual property and, where appropriate, arrange introductions to capital providers.
• Corporate Counsel – Our experience in corporate finance, capital markets and securities, venture financing and mergers and acquisitions is combined with in-depth knowledge of the intellectual property, employment, tax, liability, regulatory and privacy issues facing emerging growth companies. As corporate counsel we provide strategic business law services to public and private corporations of every size and at every phase of their growth.
• Venture capital and other funding sources – We also regularly represent clients in the formation, financing, governance and portfolio investment activities of venture capital and other private equity funds. Our lawyers have experience in venture capital fund formation, portfolio company venture capital financings and hedge fund formation.

Experience

• Represented technology company which provides software services to automotive retailers in two rounds of venture capital financing and in the sale of such company to an industry leader in the field
• Represented technology company in a restructuring of five rounds of venture capital financing and in two new rounds of venture capital financing

News

• Mark Bernstein Receives Ayscue Professionalism Award
  October 31, 2012
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Parker Poe Names Six New Partners
  January 3, 2012
• Mark Bernstein Receives Charlotte Symphony's Sally Ann Hall Award
  November 10, 2011