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The Morrison & Foerster Venture Network helps early-stage and emerging growth companies create and refine their business strategy and value proposition – followed by identification of who would be most interested in that value creation from a key customer, strategic partner, and investor standpoint. By understanding not only our client’s business, but also the investment community, the Morrison & Foerster Venture Network helps our clients more efficiently and effectively raise capital from our global network of venture capitalists and private equity investors.
The Morrison & Foerster Venture Network will provide you with straight talk and targeted feedback. We work with an exclusive group of technology and life science industry leaders. The following value-added benefits are provided for your company at no charge to you:
Strategic Planning
- Advise on the strategic business plan
- Critique your investor presentation
- Review your intellectual property position
- Identify key customer relationships
- Determine potential strategic business partnerships
- Provide strategic sales and marketing planning guidance
Capital Formation and Financing
- Create a financing plan
- Identify lists of prospective venture capitalists and strategic investors
- Provide introductions to prospective institutional VCs and strategic investors
- Gain invaluable feedback for you from the investment community
- Help refine key pro forma assumptions
- Assess viability of detailed financial forecasts
- Help determine optimal pricing models
Corporate Governance
- Review prospective outside director and advisor candidates
- Identify prospective outside directors and advisory board members
- Invite prospective outside directors and advisors to join your team
- Assess the makeup of your scientific and advisory boards
- Assist with best practices for your Board of Directors and advisors
Morrison & Foerster is one of the largest full-service law firms in California. Our practice groups include emerging companies and venture capital, technology transfer and licensing, patent and intellectual property, and litigation. Morrison & Foerster practices law across all areas of technology, including high-tech, med-tech, cleantech, information technology, biotechnology, healthcare, and life sciences. The firm has 17 offices in 6 countries around the world, including a major Asian practice. Morrison & Foerster is the largest U.S.-based law firm in Tokyo, and is representing China in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Please contact Mr. Terry Moore , Executive Director of the Morrison & Foerster Venture Network, to inquire about the many ways in which the network can assist your early-stage, emerging, and high growth company.
