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The Firm
Venture Bridge Law is a boutique transactional firm. We represent technology companies at every stage of growth, the founders who build them, the investors who fund them, and the strategic acquirers who buy them. Our clients treat us as their first call on strategic legal questions and the firm that closes their deals.
Our attorneys are trained at the nation's top law schools and law firms, and together have closed more than $5 billion in transactions globally.
Our growing roster includes five senior of-counsel attorneys, each bringing decades of focused expertise in their practice area. Together, they cover every practice area of the firm — small enough to be responsive, broad enough to handle the full arc of a transaction in-house, from formation through exit.
We built this firm to run the way a modern business should: lean, technology-enabled, and laser-focused. Big-law experience without the big-law overhead.
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The Founder
Ahmed Hasan
Founder & CEO
Venture Bridge Law, P.C.
Ahmed is a corporate lawyer and has served as counsel to founders, companies, and venture capital investors in connection with corporate governance, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, private offerings, joint ventures, venture capital and growth equity financings (from pre-seed to late-stage), bank financings, and cryptocurrency offerings.
His experience includes advising companies, investors, buyers, and sellers globally on transactions having a total value of more than $2 billion. He works with companies at all stages — from pre-seed and formation through later stages and pre-IPO.
III.
How We Work
Senior-led
Every matter is staffed and run by senior counsel. Clients do not subsidize the training of junior associates and do not encounter a rotating cast each quarter.
Selective
We limit our engagements so each client receives the responsiveness and depth that complex transactions demand.
Modern
Workflow automation, structured diligence, and integrated closing systems let us move at deal speed without compromising rigor.
IV.
Practice
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01General Counsel
Day-to-day counsel for emerging and growth-stage companies: entity formation, founder equity, vesting, 83(b) elections, IP assignment, cap table and Carta management, U.S. flips, corporate restructuring, dissolutions, and ongoing corporate governance.
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02Venture Financings
Issuer- and investor-side representation in SAFEs, convertible notes, priced rounds, and venture debt. NVCA-based documentation with attention to board composition, protective provisions, ROFR and co-sale, secondary transfers, and lead and follow-on investor terms.
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03Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-side and sell-side representation in equity and asset transactions, from acquihires to control deals. Diligence, earnouts, escrows, rollover equity, and contingent consideration.
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04Enterprise Commercial
Master services agreements, supply and distribution, licensing, partnership and channel terms, and enterprise procurement.
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05Labor & Employment
Executive agreements, equity compensation, separations, and ongoing employment compliance.
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06Intellectual Property
Trademarks, patents, technology licensing, and IP strategy.
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07Immigration
Founder and entrepreneur visas (including O-1, E-2, and L-1A); permanent residence petitions (EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and PERM); corporate immigration for executives and key personnel (H-1B, L-1, and O-1); and employer compliance.
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08Dispute Resolution
Commercial, shareholder, and partnership disputes; arbitration and pre-litigation counseling.
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Representative Matters
Representative transactions in which our attorneys have served as counsel include the following.
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$1.5B
Sale of Lynda.com to LinkedIn.
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$1.0B
Acquisition of Mandiant by FireEye.
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$400M
Investment by JPMorgan Ventures in Machine Zone and related tender offer.
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$265M
Acquisition of an AI networking chipmaker by a global semiconductor IP company.
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$325M
Sale of an EdTech company.
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$94M
Venture financing of an emerging semiconductor company.
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$65M
Sale of Sensor Platform to Audience.com.
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$65M
Debt restructuring and financing for Surf Air.
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$30M
Sale of a construction startup.
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$15M
Financing of a space communications company.
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$15M
Lead-investor representation in a venture financing of an enterprise AI platform.
Matters reflect work done by our attorneys, including at prior firms. No attorney-client relationship is formed by review of this memorandum.
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Contact
New matters move quickly. The fastest path to engagement is a short note describing what you are working on — or grab thirty minutes on the calendar below.
Ahmed Hasan
Founder & CEO
A California Professional Corporation