Venture Capital

Understanding the cap-table and the specific circumstances of the company pre-round (regardless of whether advising the company itself or the investor side), as well as the more or less pressing needs of the company and the interests of the investor (in attention to their particular profile), proposing legal solutions that contractually balance all of the above, and coordinating and leading all participants in them, are key elements for prime legal advice in the venture ecosystem.

At Araoz & Rueda, we have that expertise, recently reinforced with the incorporation of our new partner in the Commercial/Mergers & Acquisitions Department, Pilar París (who founded the StartmeUp by Deloitte Legal initiative in 2016 – today one of the standards of innovation in the Big Four) and has extensive experience and credentials that endorse her in this sophisticated market.

We aspire to be a leading legal firm in investment rounds, particularly A, B, and C, and exits, advising both the company and the investor, as the case may be, regardless of their profile and nationality, and offering a high technical level in all key documents within the framework of a round; all this also ensuring the total involvement of the responsible partner throughout the process, and thus ensuring a seniority in line with the complexity of the negotiation process in question.

Our specialized advice includes:

• Advice on due diligence processes (with a very measured scope and “grounded” to the profile and size of the target company).
• Advice on the drafting and negotiation of all kinds of transactional documents (investment and shareholders agreement(s), convertible loans or simple agreement for equity (SAFE), tailor-made incentive plans for key management & employees as well as the service contracts of the founders and the rest of the key management, including all the corporate documentation of certain complexity required for the full implementation and closing of the process.
• Advice on legal, labor, tax, or IP matters that may arise from the round advisory itself, including, among others, legal or tax advice of the contingencies that may have arisen in the context of the due diligence prior to the round, as well as the assumption of the role of Secretary of the Board of Directors of the company (which, very likely, will have become more complex and, therefore, will need a specialized legal advice).