Morgan Lewis

Emerging Business and Technology

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More than 800 emerging business and technology clients firmwide

More than $5 billion in venture financing transactions in the last five years

Ranked the #1 Most Active Law Firm globally based on the number of private funds worked on for limited partners in the Dow Jones Private Equity AnalystPrivate Equity Analyst (2010-2012)

Top 20 law firm ranked by number of venture capital transactions: Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst

Top 10 M&A transactions: Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket, Bloomberg, and Buyouts

More than 600 M&A transactions in the last five years with a combined market value of more than $200 billion

Top 15 firm for venture capital and emerging companies: Legal 500

Related Events

06/18/13 New Jersey Law Journal In-House CLE Seminar
Prashanth "P.J." Jayachandran, speaker
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Related Publications

04/08/13 Guest Lecturer, Legal Challenges Facing Startup Companies, presented at Rutgers Business School Entrepreneurship Class
04/03/13 Update: London Stock Exchange Publishes Final Rulebook for High-Growth Segment
Fast-growing European companies can now apply for admission to trading on the new segment of the LSE's Main Market.
02/15/13 London Stock Exchange Publishes Draft Rulebook for New Fast-Growth Segment
Rulebook sets out criteria for admission to the high-growth segment, which has been designed to meet the needs of fast-growing European companies.
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Related News

12/10/12 Life Sciences MVP: Morgan Lewis' Randall Sunberg, Law360
Morgan Lewis partner Randall Sunberg is named one of Law360's Life Sciences MVPs.
05/04/11 Goodman to Receive Legend Award for Lifetime Achievement at 2011 PACT Enterprise Awards
Morgan Lewis partner Steve Goodman will receive the Legend Award for lifetime achievement from the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT).
09/22/10 California's Top 100 Leading Attorneys of 2010, Daily Journal
Daily Journal has named Morgan Lewis Partner Rahul Kapoor as one of California's Leading Attorneys of 2010.
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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