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Will 2023 be the Year of the Structured Security? UPDATED 5/16/2023

As part of our Global PE Trends Webinar Series, Morrison Foerster recently hosted a webinar entitled Structures and Solutions in a Challenging Market, moderated by New York corporate partner Mitchell Presser. The webinar...more

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What You Need To Know About Negotiating A Venture Term Sheet

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For any founder, whether a first-timer or a serial entrepreneur, it’s an exciting moment when you receive a term sheet from a venture capital fund for your company’s first preferred stock financing round. Excitement aside,...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Convertible Debt Terms - Survey of Market Trends - 2019/2020

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The convertible debt market has remained remarkably stable over the last 15 months, despite considerable economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fenwick’s latest Convertible Debt Terms – Survey of Market Trends...more

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Preferred Equity PIPEs Provide Flexibility in the Age of COVID-19

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PIPEs (private investments in public equity) provide investors and public companies with a flexible vehicle for bespoke capital solutions that can be executed quickly in the volatile markets that have arisen in the COVID-19...more

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Structured Preferred Equity – A Versatile Tool in the Debt Restructuring Toolbox

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For many sponsor-backed and other highly leveraged private companies, the business impact of COVID-19 is just beginning to apply pressure to financial covenant compliance. As borrowers and private credit (or other) lenders...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Structuring Secondary Sales to Maximize Capital Gains – A Primer for Private Companies

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As private companies seek to stay private longer, many try to offer interim liquidity opportunities to their employees. These opportunities include secondary sales, where employees sell their common shares to investors, often...more

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Liquidation Preference Overhang, Shadow Preferred Stock De-Mystified

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In the past few years promissory notes and SAFEs have become an increasingly popular way to fund early-stage companies. Fenwick completes hundreds of these types of financings for its clients each year and we recently...more

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Convertible Debt Terms - Survey of Market Trends - 2018/2019

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In this report, we compile market data on convertible debt terms based on an analysis of over 100 issuer-side convertible debt transactions deals handled by Fenwick over the 15-month period from January 1, 2018 to March 31,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

2018 Private Equity Industry Overview

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Private equity firms entered 2018 amid a confusing mix of record inflows and elevated prices. At the same time, new regulation was expected to raise the cost of capital while also reducing taxes, rolling back limits on...more

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Convertible Debt Terms – Survey of Market Trends 2017/2018

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In this report, we compile market data on convertible debt terms based on an analysis of over 100 issuer-side convertible debt transactions handled by Fenwick over the 15-month period from Jan. 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018....more

McCarter & English, LLP

An Emerging Trend in Early-Stage Company Financing? – After Years of Growing Ubiquity of Convertible Notes, a Return to Priced...

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

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Seed Investing: Understanding the Landscape - Part III

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In this final installment of our series on seed instruments, we explore the Simple Agreement for Future Equity. Startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) introduced a new seed-stage investing tool, safe—an acronym for...more

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Seed Investing: Understanding the Landscape - Part I

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Starting a company has never been easier. Technology solutions for payroll, accounting, cloud computing and payment systems have made it much cheaper to take care of the back end. ...more

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