At BGM Law Group, we are dedicated to delivering responsive and efficient business and legal advisory services tailored to entrepreneurs building high-growth companies. Our priority is to understand each client’s unique needs and goals, fostering long-term strategic partnerships and investing in our clients’ success.

Our involvement begins at the earliest stages of company formation, where we assist with business structuring and offer guidance on financing and strategic planning. We provide our clients with personal attention exclusively from senior and experienced attorneys. We go beyond the simple practice of corporate law and bring our valuable business perspective, gained over hundreds of startup company transactions over our combined decades of experience, bringing knowledge about financing and business terms are currently standard in the market. We support our clients through multiple rounds of funding and help them achieve successful exits through asset sales, equity buyouts and mergers.

Our entrepreneurship services include:

• Entity selection and formation
• Founder Equity Arrangements
• Stockholder Agreements
• LLC Agreements and Operating Agreements
• Buy/Sell Agreements
• Employee Equity Incentive Plans, Restricted Stock and Stock Option Agreements
• Employee Agreements, including non-compete, non-solicit, confidentiality and assignments of inventions agreements
• IP, API and Software Licensing Agreements, Terms of Use, Master Service Agreements and other key business agreements
• Friends and Family, Series Seed, Series A and other preferred stock financings
• SAFE, convertible note and other debt financings
• Securities matters, including Regulation D and Regulation Crowdfunding offerings

We are passionate about passionate about helping clients successfully complete mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions. It’s at the core of our corporate practice.

Our attorneys serve as transaction counsel to a wide-range of clients acting in diverse roles in mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions. We regularly represent business owners, operating companies, private equity funds, independent sponsors, management teams and shareholders engaging in mergers, asset and equity sales, recapitalizations, leveraged acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, both on the buy-side and sell-side, and including international transactions.

Our lawyers routinely structure, negotiate, document and successfully close transactions with enterprise values ranging from $1 million to in excess of $100 million. Whether your transaction is large or small, we bring the same creative and practical approach to navigate obstacles, protect against short-term and long-term risks, and successfully close the deal. Our attorneys’ many decades of combined experience working primarily on sophisticated transactions gives our clients the advantage of knowing what business and financial terms are current in the market. We excel at being legal quarterbacks, leveraging our extensive relationships with tried and trusted experts in regulatory, tax, environmental and other specialized fields of law, both in the US and internationally, to make sure our clients have a single contact point to address the specific needs of their transaction.

Our small-team approach gives our clients direct, personalized attention exclusively from experienced attorneys. Our attorneys take pride in providing the right advice, high-quality work product in a manner that is prompt, responsive, personal and cost-effective.

Contracts are at the core of business operations. Our attorneys regularly draft, negotiate and review contracts to safeguard business relationships with vendors, employees and customers across a wide range of transactions with technologies of all types and across most major commercial sectors. We work with clients ranging from startups to the Fortune 500.

• Consulting Agreements
• Professional Services Agreements
• Customer Contracts, Technology Licenses, & SaaS, HaaS and Cloud Agreements
• Terms of Use/Terms of Service
• Distribution Agreements
• Manufacturing & Supply Chain Agreements
• OEM, VAR, and Reseller Agreements
• IP, API and Software Licensing Agreements, Terms of Use, Master Service Agreements and other key business agreements
• Software Development Agreements
• Nondisclosure and Confidentiality Agreements
• Outsourcing Agreements
• Co-promotion and Co-marketing Agreements
• Maintenance and Support Agreements
• Joint Ventures
• University Licensing and Sponsored Research Agreements
• Employee Equity Incentive Plans, Restricted Stock and Stock Option Agreements
• Employee Agreements, including non-compete, non-solicit, confidentiality and assignments of inventions agreements

BGM Law Group routinely advises on international business strategies, providing comprehensive legal advice for everywhere you do business across the globe.

Our attorneys routinely counsel U.S. and multi-national companies on cross-border transactions and agreements. Our team of attorneys have the experience to guide businesses through such issues as M&A transactions involving foreign assets, foreign investment, foreign subsidiary formation and other commercial and international transactions. We excel at being legal quarterbacks, leveraging our extensive relationships with tried and trusted experts in regulatory, tax, environmental and other specialized fields of law, both in the US and internationally, to make sure our clients have a single contact point to address the specific needs of their transaction.