Venture Capital

Venture capital is a vital means of funding growth for entrepreneurs and emerging businesses. However, there are many complicated legal issues that can impact the growth and success of your business.

Blank Rome’s venture capital attorneys work with parties throughout the venture capital ecosystem to help clients navigate its challenges. In addition, we offer a comprehensive program that provides legal advice, as well as tailored assistance with business and investment needs, for early stage and emerging businesses.

Venture capital investors and emerging companies require proper guidance based on experience not only in the law, but in the rapid paced environment of early and emerging growth companies. We provide counsel in venture and growth equity financings throughout an investment’s life cycle. While we represent businesses in numerous industries and stages of development, our primary focus is on information technology and software, healthcare IT, life sciences, fashion and retail, medical devices, and clean energy technology.

Our mission is to become a long-term partner by offering proactive business insight to help achieve your business objectives. To deliver the personalized advice you need, we work closely with our colleagues in corporate finance, business tax, employment law, employee benefits, intellectual property protection and licensing, international trade, energy, healthcare, securities, environmental law, and government contracts. Additionally, our strong relationships with entrepreneurs, financing sources, and investment banks can facilitate introductions and business relationships that can help advance your goals.

How We Can Help

Services for Early Stage and Emerging Growth Businesses

Whether starting a business or expanding one, you require experienced and forward-looking legal counsel throughout each life cycle phase of your company. You face many unique challenges, from choice of legal entity, to profitable growth, to managing competitive threats and creating liquidity. Our business-minded team can help in devising sophisticated yet practical solutions to these challenges.

Our early stage services include:

What Sets Us Apart

Blank Rome has long been a part of the venture community. We don’t just represent the emerging growth sector—we invest in it.

• We sponsor the Investors’ Circle, the Entrepreneurs Network, the PACT Capital Conference, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization EO Philadelphia Chapter, and FashInvest.
• Blank Rome has also been an integral part of the Private Investors Forum’s Angel Venture Fair, Funding Post, and Good Company Ventures.
• We founded and sponsored the HIMSS Health IT Venture Fair, which has been held annually since 2007.
• Top national and state rankings for Corporate Law and M&A Law in U.S. News & World Report—Best Lawyers.
• Blank Rome has been ranked top-tier in M&A Middle Market by The Legal 500, which stated that the firm is “extremely active in the purchase, sale, and combination of business entities.”
• Blank Rome consistently ranks as a “Top 10” firm focusing on M&A matters, according to the Directors & Boards annual survey of directors of major North American companies.
• Chambers USA ranks Blank Rome for its corporate/M&A and private equity work:
  • “a middle-market-focused team advising clients on matters including public and private M&A, joint ventures and securities offerings.”
  •  “‘high-quality lawyers doing a breadth of work and transactions.’”
• Our attorneys are frequent lecturers on M&A matters and are well known for “writing the book” on all aspects of valuing and selling businesses and capital formation entitles, such as The Complete Guide to Valuing and Selling your Business.