Advising High-Technology Companies, published by the venerable Practising Law Institute, gives you the total legal, tax, and regulatory guidance you need to help entrepreneurs meet the special challenges of starting, growing, and protecting their high-tech businesses.
More than 30 legal and high-tech business experts enable you to:
 Develop smart business plans;
Obtain venture capital;
Satisfy duties of loyalty, care, disclosure, and supervision;
Implement sound equity compensation programs;
Acquire, perfect, clear, defend, and enforce intellectual property rights;
Negotiate and draft sound licensing agreements;
Avoid legal traps in online contracting;
Minimize taxes;
Carry out due diligence reviews for M&As and securities offerings that optimize results;
Maximize profitability when acquiring or selling high-tech companies; and
Meet the legal, tax, and regulatory challenges specific to life science start-ups.
New coverage discusses the repercussions of the Supreme Court’s Grokster decision, while examining key sales and use tax issues and the taxation of dividends for international operations.
Table of Contents includes:
Organizing a High-Technology Start-Up Company;
Financing Issues for Start-Ups;
Intellectual Property and Technology Companies;
Forming a Board: Issues for Directors and Founders;
Technology Licensing;
Special Topics for Emerging Life Science Companies;
Entertainment Content for High-Technology Companies;
Equity Compensation;
SEC Reporting;
Emerging Issues in Privacy;
Online Contracting;
Multistate Sales and Use Taxation of Electronic Commerce;
International Operations: Taxation and Related Intellectual Property Law;
Litigation in a High-Tech World;
Due Diligence in M&A and Securities Offerings;
Preparing for an Initial Public Offering;
Acquisitions and Sales Involving Technology Companies;
Tax Aspects of Technology Company Acquisitions.
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