Emerging Companies

Sullivan & Worcester lawyers use sound business judgment to counsel emerging companies on a full range of business and legal issues. We balance business needs and legal realities to help growing companies thrive. We know that our clients are gauging opportunities and confronting challenges for the first time: protecting valuable intellectual property, securing equity and debt financing, negotiating technology licenses and joint ventures, crafting tax and deferred compensation strategies, resolving employment issues, responding to the threat of litigation and meeting liquidity needs. We understand the opportunities our clients need to take advantage of and provide quality, cost-effective solutions that help emerging companies cope with the human and financial challenges of rapid growth.

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Representative Client Work

• Represented a privately-held fiber optics and wireless communication sub-component manufacturer when it was acquired by a publicly-traded company for $77 million
• Represented a privately-held communications company when it was acquired by a publicly-traded corporation for aggregate consideration of $175 million
• Secured complex source code cross-licensing arrangements for a developer of software used in the commercial real estate market
• Represented an Australian engineering software development company in a dispute concerning the theft of confidential, proprietary and trade secret information
• Facilitated a telecommunications company's IPO and counseled on other offerings of equity and debt securities valued at more than $5 billion
• Helped an Israeli smart-card technology company successfully challenge a government award decision in the Electronic Passport program
• Provided international and domestic tax counsel to the leading global developer of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions
• Represented venture-backed parallel file system software company in financing rounds totaling more than $30 million and in negotiating multi-million dollar OEM, licensing and distribution transactions
• Represented software company in the multi-million dollar sale of its U.S., Irish and U.K. assets and shares to a publicly-traded Israeli company
• Represented developer of polymer photovoltaic products in its $18 million Series C round of financing