ScaleUp Palo Alto Fall 2024 - Week 7 - Follow-On Venture Financing Complexities

Morrison Foerster presents ScaleUp Speaker Series, a complimentary series that will provide a deep dive into the legal side of founding a startup. These weekly seminars will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights on how to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

This cycle of the ScaleUp Speaker Series will be offered in person in our Palo Alto office at 755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA. Kindly note that lunch will be provided.

Topics covered in this one-hour session include:

• “Down rounds” and antidilution adjustments

• Recapitalizing prior investments

• Pay-to-play financings

• Capitalization tables and financing models

For an overview of the topic, kindly view a brief video.

To register for this event or others in this series, kindly email your LinkedIn profile to ECVCEvents@mofo.com.

See our upcoming schedule below:

Week 8 Selling Your Startup – December 3, 2024.

Learn the differences among acquisition structures, master fundamental mergers and acquisitions (M&A) terms, and receive an overview of definitive M&A agreements and processes.

Week 9 Initial Public Offerings – December 10, 2024.

Learn about the steps necessary when considering an IPO, including the process and timing, and life as a U.S. public company.

Week 10 Open Forum Recap – December 17, 2024.

Join our interactive, open forum where you can ask startup expert attorneys questions on topics raised during earlier sessions or startup legal questions generally.

For more information on our ScaleUp programming offered in Austin, Boston, New York, and Palo Alto, please visit us at MoFo ScaleUp.