In today’s economy, properly counseling your clients on the issues they face when starting a business is crucial to success. Avoiding lost time & money, company liability, personal liability, and litigation risk is key to the continued growth and success of your client’s business.
Intellectual Property attorney and business leader Thomas Jurgensen provides an excellent review of the legal issues that entrepreneurs and start-ups face in today’s marketplace. In this discussion of business law for ‘treps,’ Mr. Jurgensen addresses the common issues that entrepreneurs face, mistakes to avoid, corporate formation & issues to consider, protecting & utilizing the intellectual assets of the business, agreements, financing & funding, business models, and litigation risk. Other issues addressed include C Corps vs. S Corps, Delaware vs. Nevada incorporation, type of investors, intellectual property basics, trade secrets, proper corporate documentation for funding, financials, piercing the corporate veil, alter ego liability, oral contracts, boilerplate, key contract clauses, and cash burn.
Mr. Jurgensen has over twenty-one years of legal experience with intellectual property, corporate, securities, executive employment, transactional, licensing, litigation and regulatory law. He specializes in integrating business and legal strategy and execution in multiple areas, including, intellectual property strategy and portfolio development, patents, trademarks, licensing, corporate partnerships, corporate formation and maintenance, mergers, acquisitions, private placements, creative fundraising.
Practice Areas: Business Law | Intellectual Property
State Accreditations: California (CA)