Entrepreneurial & Emerging Business Services

Roetzel attorneys routinely advise and counsel clients who desire to form and start businesses on a wide array of issues, including entity formation matters, equity structures, investor negotiations, intellectual property rights, and other matters that are integral to the long-term sustainability of their success. 

Roetzel provides expertise to emerging privately held corporations and partnerships in a number of areas, including:

• Access to venture capital/angel and seed financings and alternative sources of funding through introductions and access to broad base of relationships
• Shareholder relations
• Corporate governance and board advice
• Product commercialization
• Privacy and data security
• Taxation
• Finance
• M&A/Exit strategies
• Intellectual property
• Employment law
• Executive compensation
• Succession planning
• Key Person Incentive Programs

Our clients include consumer product companies, start-up companies involved in technology, software and hardware, video gaming, life sciences, biotechnology, agriculture, and a variety of other fields. Many of our attorneys have been intimately involved with incubator and other start-up investment houses throughout the United States. That in-depth, hands-on experience allows us to be our client’s strategic partner through each growth stage of the company’s life cycle. We also recognize that cash flow is of critical importance to clients with emerging businesses, so we staff matters accordingly and offer various pricing structures to best meet a client’s current needs.