Looking for advice from searchers on Legal topics during start-up phase

by a searcher from Cornell University - SC Johnson College of Business

4 years ago

Setting up partnered search based in CA and TX.  Looking for advice on getting our Legal ducks in a row:
What's most important to get lined up during start-up?
- Do you have firm recommendations?
- How did you select your counsel?
- Did you leverage the templates in the appendix of the Stanford GSB Search Fund Primer?

Thanks!
Emile

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investor from University of California, Berkeley

Emile, I'd be happy to provide some guidance on formation and the accompanying documents. As a secondaries investor, we often deal with those structures and agreements as they come into force at the other end of the journey for the Searcher, when it's time to assess rights and calculate NAV/distributions. Send me a message and we can arrange a time to speak.

4 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

admin from Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Congrats, ^Searchfunder member‌, on embarking on your search. I'd recommend taking a look at our interview with ^Searchfunder member‌ on the top legal issues and top mistakes that searchers make: https://www.searchfunder.com/post/top-legal-issues-searchers-face and https://www.searchfunder.com/post/interview-top-mistakes-searchers-make. You may also find it worthwhile to scroll through the posts that have been tagged accounting and legal for past questions and recommendations. You can click on the tag to this post or go to the left side of the main menu and click on browse posts. Warmly, Karen

4 years ago | like reply | 1 like

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