ScaleUp Winter/Spring 2026 - Week 12: Open Forum Recap

You’re invited to Morrison Foerster’s ScaleUp Speaker Series—a complimentary series that will provide insights 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, and ways to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

We are hosting this cycle of the ScaleUp Speaker Series on Fridays as virtual-only events, including several bonus sessions on Thursdays.*

Topics covered in this one-hour session include:

• Incorporating a Startup
• B-Corps, Benefit Corps and Public Benefit Corps
• Intellectual Property Basics for Startups
• Raising Angel Investment (including convertible note financings)
• Raising Venture Capital investment (deal terms and structure)
• Raising Impact Investment
• 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

For more information on our ScaleUp programming offered in Austin, Boston, New York, and Palo Alto, please visit us at MoFo ScaleUp.