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Join us for a presentation of the legal issues that startups and their founders need to know and the common legal pitfalls that affect startup companies.
Unlike more mature companies, startups typically do not have large legal budgets and in house legal counsel focused on legal compliance.
Nevertheless, startups must be aware of and comply with law, especially with respect to the issues that are unique to startups.
The presentation will cover those unique issues as well as the sometimes surprising and every evolving California rules.
In particular, we will summarize:
Corporate formation and choice of entity and law;
Securities laws;
Labor and employment and why virtually evert startup in California is probably out of compliance and what you can do about it;
Intellectual property strategies using patent, trademark and trade secret;
Protecting your business through agreements;
Protecting the founders from personal liability;
And more.
The speaker will draw on more than 30 years of startup experience in describing how to manage legal risk on a startup budget.
About the Speaker
Roger Royse is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Haynes and Boone, LLP and practices in the areas of corporate and securities law, tax, and mergers and acquisitions.
He works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to publicly traded multinationals in a variety of industries.
Roger is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and former chair of several committees of the American Bar Association Sections of Business Law and Taxation.
Roger has been an instructor or professor of legal, tax and business topics for the Center for International Studies (Salzburg, Austria), Golden Gate University School of Law and Stanford Continuing Studies.
Roger is a nationally recognized authority on agtech – the technology of food production - and the legal considerations for companies in this industry.
Roger is also the author of 10,000 Startups: Legal Strategies for Startup Success and Dead on Arrival: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Startup and has been interviewed and quoted in
the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Tax Notes, Inc.
Magazine, Nikkei Asian Review, China Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, The Recorder, 7X7, Business Insurance, ABA Journal, Thrive Global and Fast Company.
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