Entering the Growth Phase
Once your company enters the growth phase, your focus will shift to solidifying product-market fit, scaling your customer base, reaching rapid revenue growth, and expanding your management team and workforce. Through the NEXT Team and as part of Shulman Rogers full-service capabilities, we can help you navigate your new and increasingly complex set of business objectives and challenges. Your legal needs will change, and ensuring that you have access to experienced growth phase lawyers, with Big Law expertise, will be critical to reaching your ultimate goals.
Growth Phase Fee Structures
Our startup general counsel services will be delivered through a combination of:
- Reasonable and sustainable hourly fees (Rates half to one third the rates of large national and global law firms)
- Caps on hourly fees where applicable and further discounted rates under our Fractional General Counsel subscription offerings
- Ability to provide regular updates on account balances and accruing fees (No surprises on legal invoices to help you with managing your budgets)
Growth Phase Services
As growth phase lawyers, we will provide startup general counsel and assist your post Series A company as it scales. Several core areas that we cover include:
- General Corporate Legal Work
- Complex contracts
- Corporate Governance and Board Management
- Priced Round Financings – Series A and beyond
- Executive and Equity Compensation
- Employment Matters
- Licensing, Joint Venture and Strategic Partnerships
- Tax Planning
- Data Security and Privacy
- Growth through Mergers and Acquisitions
Ready to Exit Through a Merger or Acquisition
Selling your business is a process involving many steps that ideally unfold over a period of years rather than months or weeks. From preparing your business for sale to assembling your team of advisors to structuring and negotiating the actual sale, our highly qualified and experienced M&A team can help achieve the best possible outcome for you. We formulate creative solutions to challenging problems, simplify the complex, and make the sale process as painless as possible, so you can continue to focus on growing your business during the sale process. We have successfully completed hundreds of sale transactions, representing billions of dollars in aggregate sale proceeds for our clients.
Our team, as part of Shulman Rogers, draws on a deep well of experience to solve the issues that routinely arise in sale transactions across a variety of areas, including tax, employment, intellectual property, and government contracts to name a few. Click here for more information on the Shulman Rogers M&A Practice.
