Analyzing VC Deal Terms: Leading Lawyers on Structuring Term Sheets, Developing Negotiation Strategies, and Assessing Risks (Inside the Minds)

Analyzing VC Deal Terms is an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for successfully structuring deal terms. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through establishing client goals and objectives, identifying important deal components, and evaluating requirements for VC funding. From understanding the structure of a transaction to forecasting legal regulatory issues, these leaders offer strategies for establishing financial benchmarks, executing due diligence, and formulating negotiation strategies. Additionally, these top lawyers give tips for analyzing dividend terms, anti-dilution provisions, redemptions rights, and liquidation preferences. Finally, these experts evaluate external factors that will impact a deal, such as the marketplace, specific industry, and other current deals. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating an increasingly-enforced and ever-changing area of law.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters Include:

1. Michael J.W. Rennock, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP "The Nuts and Bolts of a VC Financing Transaction: Current Issues and Standard Deal Terms"

2. Bart Greenberg, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP "Representing the Founder in a Technology Company VC Deal"

3. Ed Pease & David Gammell, Co-Chairs Emerging Growth/Venture Capital Practice, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP "Striking the Balance: Structuring Successful VC Deals"

4. Craig C. Bradley, Partner, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP "Protecting the Founder in a VC Deal"

5. LizabethAnn R. Eisen, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP "Debt Financing Commitments in Private Equity Acquisitions"

6. Edouard C. LeFevre, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP - "Key Issues and Trends in a VC Deal Term Analysis"

7. Alan Bickerstaff, Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP - "An Entrepreneur's Guide to Venture Capital Financing Terms"

8. David K. Levine, Of Counsel, Snell & Wilmer LLP "Key Economic and Non-Economic Issues in VC Deals"

9. Rodney H. Bell, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP "Current Trends in the Analysis of Venture Capital and Private Equity Deal Terms"

Appendices Include:
Appendix A: Series A Financing Term Sheet
Appendix B: Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement
Appendix C: Voting Agreement
Appendix D: Term Sheet
Appendix E: Sample Securities Purchase Agreement
Appendix F: Sample Investor Rights Agreement