PRACTICE AREAS

One Stop Shop for SMEs & Startups

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Corporate Formation & Governance

We provide full-service expert legal support for every stage of your company's growth. We regularly guide clients through business formation, statutory compliance and preparation for investment or sale.

Our Business Partners assist with all types of corporate legal matters, including entity selection and structuring, corrective restructuring and statutory conversions, and ongoing entity maintenance and governance. We work with companies to develop optimized solutions that align stakeholder interests, avoid trajectory-limiting mistakes, and facilitate growth.

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Debt & Equity Financings

When seeking external financing, it is critical that financing terms are aligned with the needs and operational capabilities of the business. Pursuit Legal assists with a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional debt and equity financing structures, including traditional bank debt, secured debt, convertible debt, and common and preferred equity.

Our Business Partners stay current on evolving financing structures and market terms. Doing so allows them to provide strategic, informed legal advice at each stage of the transaction – from sourcing, structuring and negotiation, to documentation, review and execution.

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Fund Formation & Equity Investments

Pursuit Legal represents fund sponsors and venture investors in fund formation and direct and indirect investments. Our extensive experience representing growth-stage SMEs and startups in a wide variety of industries enables us to provide unique insights regarding the target and develop transaction structures that are designed to optimize returns and minimize risk.

Our experienced Business Partners assist with all facets of the investment life cycle, including fund formation and capitalization, target due diligence, transaction structuring and execution, and ongoing governance.

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Strategic Partnerships & Joint Ventures

Few transactions have more potential to increase the growth trajectory of a business than a properly structured and negotiated strategic partnership or joint venture. Pursuit Legal represents clients in a wide variety of technology and operational partnerships, including traditional joint ventures, licensing arrangements, research and development agreements, joint product development, and co-promotion and joint marketing agreements.

Levering deep industry experience in the markets we serve, our Business Partners are experienced in structuring and negotiating transactions to maximize value and facilitate growth.

MATERIALS
Software Licensing & SaaS Agreements

Properly drafted software licensing terms are critically important to protecting intellectual property rights and maximizing value. Our Business Partners work with software businesses to develop and implement software license agreements that meet the unique objectives of the business.

Armed with decades of tech experience, we work to evaluate the software products and available licensing models, make recommendations, and prepare license terms designed to anticipate future issues and maximize the value of the software.

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Employment

Our extensive experience in employment law allows us to anticipate and resolve employment disputes before they arise. We guide clients through performance evaluations, employee terminations, and other challenging issues. We also assist with a wide range of transactional employment matters including the development and implementation of employee handbooks, employment agreements, and employee non-disclosure, assignment of intellectual property and non-compete agreements.

Working closely with clients, our Business Partners provide key guidance on implementing protective policies and procedures and compliance programs designed to proactively identify and mitigate potential violations of employment law before issues arise.

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Compliance

With businesses facing ever heavier regulation, oversight, and enforcement, effective ethics and compliance programs have never been more important. Our Business Partners are highly skilled in guiding businesses through the development and implementation of ethics and compliance programs, planning and conducting risk assessments and audits, and addressing any ethics and compliance issues that may arise.

We understand the need for comprehensive, yet practical and manageable, ethics and compliance programs, and have extensive experience in assisting with the design, implementation, and enforcement of programs designed to reduce legal exposure in wide-ranging areas such as data privacy, employment, anti-corruption and antitrust.

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Trademarks

Successful businesses make a significant investment in building brand awareness and goodwill with customers. It is crucial to protect this investment by obtaining and preserving trademark protection.

Our Business Partners will work with you to create, maintain, and protect trademarks so that you can build your brand without interference. Pursuit Legal provides a complete range of trademark services and collaborates closely with clients to ensure they receive and maintain the full benefit of trademark protection.

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Real Estate & Construction

Pursuit Legal assists clients with a wide range of commercial real estate and construction law matters. Our Business Partners regularly provide comprehensive and practical advice regarding landlord/tenant disputes, real property acquisitions and divestitures, construction contracting and subcontracting, construction disputes and contract enforcement, and construction liens.

We have experience with a wide variety of project types including retail centers, residential communities, warehouses, industrial parks and a diverse range of other projects. This experience lends us the kind of deep insight you want on your side to solve all of your real estate and construction law needs.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Having a legal team that offers expertise and efficiency is essential for a smooth and mistake-free transaction. Our Business Partners have experience with various transaction structures and can assist with a wide array of matters, from transaction structuring and negotiation, due diligence, and documentation, to securities filings and post-closing corporate governance issues.

Combining our expertise with our knowledge of market terms, Pursuit Legal has delivered value in a wide variety of transactions, including mergers, stock and asset purchases and sales, spin-offs, consolidations and roll-ups, management buy-outs, joint ventures and corporate recapitalizations, reorganizations and restructurings.

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Commercial & Technology Transactions

Pursuit Legal regularly represents clients in a variety of commercial and technology transactions. We have substantial experience representing clients in a broad range of transactions, including technology development and commercialization, cloud services, digital advertising and sponsorship, content licensing, strategic sourcing and procurement, contract manufacturing and strategic alliances.

Our Business Partners have negotiated and completed billions of dollars of transactions throughout the world. We understand the critical operational, financial, and legal risks associated with each type of transaction, and our solution-oriented approach allows us to shorten the contracting cycle time and maximize value.

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Dispute Resolution

Our Business Partners draw on industry knowledge and subject-matter expertise to develop strategies tailored to achieve your economic and non-economic objectives.

We assist clients in dispute evaluation, risk assessment, strategy development, negotiation, and litigation. Pursuit Legal provides a responsive, efficient, and results-oriented approach that is well positioned to address any case or controversy.

COMMERCIAL OR HOUSEING
International Expansion

Pursuit Legal assists clients with a broad range of international transactions. With a focus on the Americas, we have extensive expertise in commercial and corporate transactions and international finance.

Leveraging our network of highly-skilled attorneys throughout the world our Business Partners can quickly recommend and engage qualified attorneys in your target area to manage your international matters through completion.

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We are not only legal experts, but also industry experts in the industries we serve. This allows us to be STRATEGIC partners to the business, helping them accelerate growth and anticipate / address potential issues (look around corners) before they become roadblocks.

We deliver our services using a results driven/outcomes oriented approach that is right sized for the stage / goals of the business making us the partner of choice for both emerging and established companies underserved by traditional law firms.

Pursuit legal turns the traditional service delivery model on its head. We make an investment in the time it takes to learn the client’s business so that we understand their unique legal needs. In addition, match the client with the Pursuit Legal attorney with the right industry and legal experience to support client.

We are responsive, lean and hands on.

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