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Last week I was enjoying a wonderful dinner with close friends when I heard one of the most anxiety inducing comments an attorney who drafts and negotiates contracts can hear: “I used…

On Friday, December 14, 2018, just hours before the end of open enrollment on the health care exchanges, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, ruled to strike the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA).…

In a recent working paper, researchers at UCLA and the University of Amsterdam determined that a single sexual harassment claim can cause more damage to a company’s reputation than financial misconduct or…

Some major changes to the North Carolina Business Corporation Act (the “Corporations Law”) took effect on October 1 of this year. These changes touch many aspects of the Corporations Law, from providing…

The #MeToo movement has sparked a renewed focus on targeting and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, and the state of New York has adopted new sexual harassment prevention laws in an…

What is a SAFE investment? SAFE stands for “simple agreement for future equity,” and was created by Y Combinator in 2013 as an alternative to investing via convertible notes. SAFEs are neither…

Options. Stock. Equity. Vesting. Sweat Equity. These are just a few of the concepts that are part of a startup’s toolbox for building a team and which generally fit within the broader…

Contemplating a merger? Making an acquisition? Doing a deal with another company can be challenging enough, without having to take on legal liability for the behavior of a company’s leadership, particularly where…

Investors have long been directing their funding to companies with a social conscience and lead investors in most early-stage companies will ask for board representation during term sheet negotiations.  Hollywood’s much talked…

Effective on December 1, 2017, a new North Carolina law created a public, state-wide database of assumed business names, which will simplify filing assumed business name certificates. An assumed business name is not the…