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Ballard
Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
1735 Market Street
51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599
Phone: (215) 665-8500 Fax: (215) 864-8999
Primary Contact:
- Brian Doerner, Partner
Phone: (215) 864-8615
Business & Finance Department; Technology and Emerging Companies
Group
Other Contact:
- Raymond D. Agran, Partner
Business & Finance Department; Technology and Emerging Companies
Group
Firm Information:
Our Technology and Emerging Companies Group works with technology
businesses, including life sciences, Internet, energy, telecommunications,
software and manufacturing companies, providing innovative
and practical solutions to the diverse and unique problems
confronting them, from startup to maturity. We also represent
venture capital funds, investment banking firms and other
entities that invest in and finance these businesses. We bring
to this practice a sensitive, creative, and energetic approach,
extensive business experience and practical judgment.
Areas of Expertise:
Specific areas in which we provide legal services to technology
and emerging companies are:
- Distribution and marketing agreements
- Employment issues, including compensation arrangements,
confidentiality agreements and invention assignments
- Financing, forming and structuring the entity
- Formation and operation of investment vehicles to minimize
regulatory burdens
- IPOs and follow-on public offerings
- Joint venture, strategic alliance, and collaboration agreements
- Licensing
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private placements of securities and other venture capital
investing
- Protection of intellectual property
- Reorganization and Recapitalizations
- Software development
- Technology transfer
- Web hosting, development, co-branding, e-commerce, and
other emerging Web activities
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