Emerging Business & Technology

Morgan Lewis’s Emerging Business and Technology Practice serves as an integral resource to hundreds of emerging growth companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We offer our clients a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to solving problems, a value-added network, and access to sources of capital. With firm offices in major technology centers and the legal resources of an international law firm, we offer emerging growth businesses localized, personalized, and effective long-term representation from startup to maturity. The practice is versed in all aspects of the emerging growth company life cycle—from company formations, financings, partnering, and collaborations to executive compensation, employment matters, intellectual property protection, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansions.

Morgan Lewis’s reputation and relationships help entrepreneurs and investors make profitable decisions and connections. We keep clients close to the financing resources that fund today’s growing companies through our established relationships with the venture capital and investment banking communities in the New York, Mid-Atlantic, Silicon Valley, and international markets. Client industries served include clean technology and alternative energy; financial services, information technology, life sciences, and biotechnology; and media.

Areas of practice

• Angel and venture capital financing
• Employment and employee benefits
• Energy regulation
• Intellectual property protection and litigation
• International expansion: China, Europe, Japan
• Life sciences regulation
• Life sciences transactions
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Outsourcing
• Public offerings
• Securities regulation
• Technology transactions
• Venture capital and private equity fund formation