Overview
Greenspoon Marder’s Innovation & Technology practice group helps entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and growth-stage companies build, fund, protect, and monetize the businesses shaping tomorrow’s economy.
Our team represents clients across the full corporate lifecycle, from formation and early-stage structuring to venture and growth financings, complex M&A transactions, regulatory compliance, and exit. We combine institutional-level transactional experience with real-world entrepreneurial insight, allowing us to serve not just as legal advisors but as strategic partners to innovation-driven enterprises.
With deep experience in major innovation hubs including Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, we advise companies operating in high-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI), FinTech, MedTech, aerospace, digital assets, modular architecture, advanced manufacturing, and emerging technologies.
Entrepreneurial Perspective Meets Institutional Execution
What differentiates our practice is our first-hand understanding of founder realities. Our team includes attorneys with direct experience founding, scaling, and advising emerging technology companies. This perspective informs how we structure transactions, negotiate investor terms, design governance frameworks, and implement defensible IP strategies.
We regularly serve as outside general counsel to venture-backed and IP-intensive startups, building full-stack legal infrastructure that supports scalable growth. Our work includes:
- Structuring and leading multi-million-dollar venture and growth financings
- Advising on Regulation D, Regulation CF, and Regulation A+ offerings
- Designing capital stacks and executing LLC-to-C-Corp conversions
- Implementing founder vesting frameworks and recapitalizations that preserve control
- Managing cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions
- Negotiating enterprise-grade commercial agreements for technology deployment
We have guided complex capital raises, including eight- and nine-figure strategic portfolios and institutional Series A transactions involving sophisticated investor negotiations and cross-border structuring considerations.
Corporate Governance & Capital Strategy
High-growth companies require governance architecture that is both compliant and investor-ready. Our team provides advanced corporate governance advisory, including:
- Cap table audits and reconciliation for platform onboarding
- Board structuring and written consents
- Securities compliance readiness and Blue Sky filings
- EDGAR submission support
- Governance clean-up in advance of financings or acquisitions
We also advise boards, executives, and investors in sensitive partnership disputes, recapitalizations, and executive compensation matters.
Technology-Driven Transactions
We handle complex corporate and technology-driven transactions across sectors, including:
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Strategic joint ventures and roll-up acquisitions
- Warrant issuances and structured debt financings
- Reverse merger negotiations
- Cross-border commercial and manufacturing agreements
Our attorneys draft and negotiate sophisticated commercial agreements, including AI deployment services agreements, master services agreements (MSAs), enterprise licensing frameworks, and dual-use technology contracts.
Securities & Regulatory Advisory
Innovation companies operate in increasingly complex regulatory environments. We provide strategic advisory on:
- Regulation D, CF, and A+ securities offerings
- SAFE and customized RSPA instruments
- Digital asset and AI regulatory compliance
- Stablecoin integration and digital finance frameworks
- Multi-jurisdictional IP protection and generative AI ownership clauses
We also guide clients through the full spectrum of private market financing, including SEC-exempt offerings for early-stage, growth-stage, and mid-market companies. Our team regularly structures and executes capital raises under Regulation D, Regulation CF, and Regulation A, helping issuers navigate complex disclosure, compliance, and investor relations requirements.
Whether a company is launching its first friends-and-family round, scaling through venture and growth equity financings, or pursuing later-stage private placements, we deliver practical, business‑minded counsel aligned with each client’s stage, sector, and capital strategy. We work closely with founders, investors, and management teams to streamline the fundraising process and position businesses for long-term success in fast-moving private markets.
We ensure capital formation strategies align with evolving federal and state securities laws while preserving operational flexibility.
Strategic Business Advisory
Beyond contract review and negotiation, we are dealmakers and connectors. We leverage deep relationships across venture capital, investment banking, fintech, media, entertainment, science, and private equity ecosystems to help clients raise the right capital, enter the right markets, and execute the right partnerships.
We also advise founders and executives on asset protection, intergenerational planning strategies, real estate-to-LLC structuring, and governance preservation aligned with long-term wealth planning objectives.
Integrated, Cross-Disciplinary Support
Our Innovation & Technology team works seamlessly with Greenspoon Marder’s broad range of complementary practice areas to support clients as their businesses scale and become more complex. Our skilled professionals advise clients on intellectual property strategy, portfolio oversight, and brand protection, including trademark preparation and filings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), to safeguard cutting-edge technologies worldwide.
Just as importantly, we partner with our immigration, tax, trust and estates, real estate, labor and employment, litigation, insurance recovery and regulatory teams to deliver holistic guidance that anticipates the full lifecycle needs of innovative companies and their founders. From structuring tax‑efficient equity incentives and succession planning to navigating data privacy and employment issues, to supporting real estate and operational growth, our full‑service platform ensures that clients benefit from integrated, multidisciplinary counsel tailored to high‑velocity industries.
Litigation & Risk Mitigation
In addition to transactional counsel, we represent clients in complex commercial disputes, arbitration matters, insurance recovery, post-closing disputes, and Delaware federal litigation involving high-growth companies. Our litigation experience strengthens our transactional approach, allowing us to structure deals that anticipate and mitigate risk.
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