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Investors

Extensive Investor-Side Experience at Manageable Prices

Experience and knowledge surrounding best practices and market-standard deal terms for investing in startups and fund formation are keys to success in the startup and investment world, and Thompson Hine can efficiently and effectively assist you in investing in a high-growth company or forming your own investment vehicle.

We represent investors from the individual investor investing in a startup, to the angel fund to large venture capital funds from coast to coast. Our team consists of seasoned venture capitalists and deal counsel who know and understand the nuanced subtleties of deals and fund formation, and equally as important, know how to accomplish an investor’s goals in a reasonable and cost-predictive way. With our Emerging Fund Managers Package and other SPV and fund formation plans, we can assist you in setting up your venture capital fund or similar investment vehicle in a budgeted, thoughtful way that matches market terms and whose quality is second to none.

You need a law firm that understands market terms and best practices, and that can draft and turn high-quality documents quickly and efficiently. But you also need attorneys who won’t alienate the other side in the process. This work is delicate. Strength and conviction in negotiation are crucial, but so are touch, discretion and proportionality. We understand this. You are not just making an investment – you are laying the groundwork for what may be a lengthy relationship with the company and its management team. You don’t want your law firm to poison the waters but enhance and elevate your relationship. That’s the reason to choose us.

Increasingly, big companies are endeavoring to engage in R&D more dimensionally, whether through investing or partnering with startups, setting up labs, supporting intrapreneurial activity, and so on. Our deep startup and venture capital experience enables us to provide just this sort of counseling to executives like you. We advise on best practices and provide insight on the cultural issues and strategic sensitivities at work in deals and projects like these.