A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Tag Non-Disclosure Agreement
Legal Considerations for Selling Your Emerging Growth Company Part 3: The Non-Disclosure Agreement
Hiring a Programmer? Get an Invention Assignment Agreement
Founders have a lot to think about when starting a new company, such as finding the right team, developing their strategy, and getting the company’s legal structure in place. One item that should not be left out is ensuring the…
Venture Capital Term Sheet Negotiation — Part 18: Non-Disclosure and Developments Agreements
This post is the eighteenth in a series giving practical advice to startups with respect to understanding and negotiating a venture capital term sheet. In the prior seventeen posts, we provided an introduction to negotiation of the term sheet and discussed binding and non-binding…
Drafting Nondisclosure Agreements in the M&A Context: Consider What Will Happen When the Deal Goes South
Let’s say you’re buying a business. As a condition to receiving more information, you are required to sign a nondisclosure agreement that contains all of the usual blather. You then start to sift through the mountains of information provided (and…