Eckerle Law is a corporate law firm. I serve the legal needs of companies in every phase of their life cycle.
I help your business come to life by:
- Creating a unique master plan to build the foundation and protect your assets
- Addressing all legal issues around your company’s formation:
- Choosing the right legal entity
- Addressing tax issues
- Preparing founders and shareholder agreements
- Crafting assignments of inventions and equity compensation agreements
- Assisting you with all other legal issues such as leases, supplier and vendor agreements, as well as corporate housekeeping
I help your business grow by:
- Identifying sources of funding and people helpful for business growth
- Helping you to develop a business plan
- Strategic collaborations with key business partners:
- Joint ventures
- Strategic collaborations
- Licensing and development agreements
- Outsourcing
- Assisting with financing, for example crowd funding and seed rounds
I support you in going to the next level with:
- Venture capital, angel and other funding rounds
- Debt financings
- Strategic or financial acquisitions or divestitures of non-core businesses
- The pre-IPO planning process, for example SEC disclosure documents and due diligence
- The sale of your business
I help companies comply with rules and regulations by:
- Assisting them with establishing and living a real-life compliance program, with an emphasis on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, Regulation FD, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Creating a foundation with a solid compliance framework with policies and procedures
- Implementing the program
- Assisting with communications with the SEC and other regulators.