Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Fletcher & Adams is a global law firm with a leading startup, emerging company, venture capital, and institutional funding practice. For over a decade, we’ve assisted companies and their investors at every stage of the business life cycle, from initial formation and financings, through late-stage financings and investments, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings.

Why Fletcher & Adams?

We currently have many partners and other lawyers of the firm committing a significant amount of their professional time to this practice area, and we are currently working with leading startup businesses and their funders.

In the last five years, we have assisted our clients in raising or deploying more than $1 billion of venture capital, and in involved in closing several initial public offerings, as well as a hundred plus mergers and acquisitions.

Global Reach

Our attorneys operate from an established position of strength across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Our global presence facilitates venture capital investment in our U.S. and international clients and positions us to advise startup companies based in those key markets. We offer practical domestic and cross-border corporate, financing, and commercial advice and our clients tell us that our input distinguishes Fletcher & Adams from other law firms.

Industry Expertise

Our attorneys have a deep understanding of the complex technologies at the heart of our clients’ businesses. Our industry knowledge allows us to represent many emerging growth companies and investors in cutting-edge areas of technology, including software, mobile, virtual reality, e-commerce, cybersecurity, data analytics, robotics, drones and more. The firm also remains at the forefront of working with emerging companies and investors focused on life sciences, media, clean technology & alternative energy, social enterprise and impact investing,

Collaborative Teams

Our collaborative approach to client service allows us to leverage all of our firm’s resources, notably including our leading practices in patent prosecution, IP matters, tech transactions, privacy, tax, cyber and employment / labor issues, and dispute resolution. From our initial meeting with a founder or funder about a concept or possible new venture, we plan for the ultimate exit. We have destination M&A and capital markets practices that are critical to mapping business decisions made early in the process.

Extensive Network

For entrepreneurs who are founding and growing durable businesses, we think counsel should be experienced, sincerely interested in providing assistance for the long haul, and delivering services at a fair cost—and that is what we do at Fletcher & Adams. We use our network to connect companies and funding sources, always one of the most important relationships for emerging companies. For venture capital investors, corporate venture capital, angel investors, high net worth individuals, and other funding sources, we have formed hundreds of private investment partnerships around the world, and we have participated in hundreds of financings (from early stage seed rounds to the final pre-IPO round) in recent years.