Splitting equity among founders, team members, and other parties can often be a challenging process fraught with pitfalls for many startups.
The speaker will discuss the following issues:
1) the different types of shares available for issuance to founders and rights associated with such shares
2) the issues most commonly taken into account in connection with allocation of equity among the founding team
3) the common mistakes made by founders at the equity allocation stage and best practices for founders to follow at the entity formation stage
and more!
Please come with your questions, concerns and scenarios.
About the Speaker:
Stan Lewandowski is a partner at K & L Gates and is based in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Stan counsels companies in the U.S., Europe and South America on financing, operations, development and other strategic transactional issues, primarily in the technology and renewable energy sectors.
Stan represents emerging growth companies at every stage of the pipeline-from start-up to liquidity. He works on a variety of strategic growth issues, including venture capital and private equity financings, private offerings, joint ventures and M&A.
Combining his experience representing Central and Eastern European companies with his Silicon Valley background, Stan has worked closely with investors and companies on domestic, in-bound and out-bound transactions, as well as on-shore and off-shore structures.
Stan also has significant experience advising developers, their affiliates and investors, and financial institutions in connection with the development and disposition of renewable energy projects, with a total value in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Stan earned his LL.M. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He received his master of laws and diploma from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. He also earned a diploma from the University of Cambridge in England.
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