Author Description

The handbook is an e-book that mirrors the transactional needs of individuals initially seeking legal advice concerning the formation and start-up of a business and is suitable for working with microbusinesses, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit group, and for-profit businesses seeking angel investors or venture capital. Its chapters blend substance and skills training, featuring links to outside resources and exemplars such as charters, articles of organization; operating agreements; shareholders agreements, contracts, licensing agreements, and the like. Substantively, coverage begins with choice of business entity, and then moves to address the use, analysis, and drafting of transactional documents typically used in the conduct of business and the protection of a business's intellectual property. Coverage concludes with a focus on methods of financing the business entity, covering both debt, equity, and hybrid forms of financing and securities law issues. This title will support a business law clinic, a business skills development course, or an orientation manual for a law firm's or department's introductory or orientation program.