ScaleUp Speaker Series Palo Alto Winter/Spring 2025 - Week 12: Open Forum Recap

You’re invited to Morrison Foerster’s ScaleUp Speaker Series Palo Alto—a complimentary series that will provide insight into the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights on how to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

We are hosting this cycle of ScaleUp Speaker Series as a hybrid event, offering participants the option to either attend virtually or in person in our Palo Alto office at 755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA. For extended Q&A sessions and networking opportunities, we strongly recommend in-person attendance. Complimentary lunch and parking will be provided.

Topics covered in this one-hour session include:

• Incorporating a startup
• Intellectual property basics for startups
• Raising angel financing (including convertible note financings)
• Raising venture capital investment (deal terms and structure)
• Most common legal mistakes of startup entrepreneurs
• Antitrust Issues for Startup Companies
• Startup equity incentives
• Follow-on venture financing complexities
• Selling your startup
• Initial Public Offerings
• CFIUS Basics

To register for this session, kindly email your LinkedIn profile to ECVCEvents@mofo.com.