Emerging Manager Counsel
Investor counsel for emerging VC fund managers, from the first check onward.
Emerging managers are often closing their own fund while making its first investments. We act as investor counsel on those deals, so the terms are right from the first check and your time stays on the raise and the pipeline. Ahmed helped launch a VC firm’s first fund and knows how much lands on a new manager at once.
What We Handle
Investments. SAFEs, convertible notes and priced rounds from the investor side, including pro rata and information rights, board seats and the terms that follow a company into its next round.
Diligence. Legal diligence sized to the check, with findings in plain terms and clear asks of the company before closing.
Founder fundamentals. Help for portfolio founders on formation, founder equity and vesting, IP assignment and a clean cap table, before the first check.
Follow-ons and exits. Follow-on rounds, secondary sales and, when a portfolio company is acquired, the fund’s side of the deal.
Growing With the Fund
As the fund scales, the deals get larger and the terms more complex. The same senior lawyers stay on them, with specialists added only when a deal needs one.
Raising a Fund and Investing at the Same Time?
Tell us about the fund and your next deal.