Innovative Start-Ups

RASS provides legal advice and assistance to innovative companies in the following areas:

• legal feasibility analysis of the innovative company’s business model, including authorization and regulatory aspects
• determination of statutory and/or shareholders’ agreement mechanisms for protecting founding shareholders, both entrepreneurial and financial, followed by establishment of the corporate vehicle and drafting of “tailor-made” articles of association and shareholders’ agreements
• negotiation of co-investment transactions in innovative companies and preparation of contractual documentation (term sheets, investment agreements, shareholders’ agreements and any other documentation required by best market practices in venture capital transactions)
• identification of the innovative company’s financial structure and selection of optimal instruments and channels for raising equity, debt and “hybrid” capital, including through public offerings on online portals (so-called “equity-based crowdfunding”)
• IP: definition of systems for protecting the start-up’s intellectual property, from distinctive signs, software, inventions and design to operating processes and know-how, and drafting of contractual documentation
• negotiation and drafting of contracts for innovative companies, including Letters of Intent, Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA), Software Development and Licensing and Sub-Licensing Agreements, SaaS agreements, General Terms of Use for Software or Services, Distribution and Resale Agreements, Escrow Agreements, Research and Development (R&D) Agreements, supply and sub-supply agreements, digital services agreements (such as Web Analytics, SEO, Google AdWords and CRO)
• drafting of employment and collaboration agreements, non-compete and stability agreements preparation of incentive plans for key managers, including work-for-equity plans