The entrepreneurial business development practice at Brooks Pierce engages a specialized, interdisciplinary team of lawyers from practice areas including corporate, securities, intellectual property, and employment law to provide strategic legal counsel to emerging growth companies from concept stage through liquidity and/or exit. Our attorneys leverage their significant expertise in the various areas of entrepreneurial law and their relationships in the venture capital, investment banking, business and academic communities to provide timely, value-enhancing advice that meets the unique needs of entrepreneurs and their companies.
Our firm's services include strategic legal counsel regarding:
- Business Formation and Founder Issues
- Corporate Finance-Venture, Mezzanine, Debt
- Employment-Equity Compensation, Benefits
- Intellectual Property-Protection, Commercialization, Licensing
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities-Private Placements, Initial Public Offerings
- Strategic Alliances
Our attorneys are committed to supporting the entrepreneurial community through active participation in trade and entrepreneurial support organizations, educational conferences and investor organizations. Our attorneys currently serve in leadership roles with the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association (NCEITA), the Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurial Network, the Piedmont Angel Network, the UNC Center for Entrepreneurship, the UNC Council for Entrepreneurial Law, and in numerous other roles and organizations that exemplify our knowledge and dedication to helping our entrepreneurial clients.
Beacon Technologies, Inc.
