Shipman & Goodwin has long enjoyed helping start-up and emerging growth companies to succeed. We combine a practical and flexible approach to early stage companies with the experience and skills of seasoned business and finance, private equity, securities, e-business, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions lawyers.
Our emerging growth company clients compete in various industries, including software and IT, wireless technologies, energy and alternative energy, nanotechnology, engineered materials, semiconductors, internet services, telecommunications, e-business, new media, bioscience and health care. We pride ourselves on our practical, cost-effective, business-oriented advice and our broad industry knowledge and experience.
Shipman & Goodwin is pleased to sponsor CTech, a part of Science Park at Yale, Connecticut's newly expanded technology incubator located in New Haven. The New Haven facility houses high-tech tenants that share facility amenities as well as on-site accounting, legal and professional business services. CTech is a partnership between Connecticut Innovations, Yale University, Launch Capital, United Illuminating Co. and the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven. To support this effort for entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies, Shipman & Goodwin currently staffs CTech with an attorney one day per week. To learn more about CTech, please click here or on the CTech logo to the right of this page.
Our representation of clients includes:
- Organizational matters among founders - choice of entity, shareholder and buy-sell agreements
- Business advisory services - corporate governance, board of directors and shareholder matters, employee issues, general contracting
- Private equity finance – venture capital, mezzanine finance, SBIC investments, strategic investments, venture leasing
- Equity compensation matters
- Commercialization of products and technology - licensing, product distribution, joint ventures, strategic alliances
- Technology development and licensing - technology transfer, R&D agreements, licensing
- Intellectual property protection - trade secrecy agreements, copyright, trademark and domain name protection, trademark prosecution and maintenance, intellectual property litigation
- Web site development and hosting
- Agreements for outsourcing, consulting and systems integration, linking, internet service providers, distance learning