After years of increasing acceptance of and reliance on convertible note financings as a mechanism for funding early-stage companies, we have noted a clear emerging trend away from such transactions (and others like them,...more
7/15/2016
/ Capital Raising ,
Conversion ,
Convertible Debt ,
Early Stage Companies ,
Entrepreneurs ,
Equity Financing ,
Investors ,
Preferred Stock Financing ,
Qualified Small Business Stock ,
SAFE ,
Seed Financing ,
Startups ,
Term Sheets ,
Valuation
What happened?
On December 18, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the “PATH Act”), a measure that, among other things, retroactively renews, extends and...more
Only recently, we debated the merits of the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), an alternative funding mechanism for early-stage companies designed to replace the industry-standard convertible note financing....more
What happened? -
In the wee hours of December 16th, Congress passed H.R. 5771, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (“TIPA”), a stopgap measure that, among other things, retroactively extends certain tax incentives...more