Scott Bleier Moderating ABA Venture Capital Webinar This Thursday

This Thursday, July 27th, beginning at 1pm EST, corporate attorney Scott Bleier will moderate the ABA Business Law Section webinar "Roadmap of a Venture Capital Deal". The panel will cover various topics of the lifecycle of a venture capital financing transaction. Visit our VCs and Startups blog for more information about the webinar and details on …

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Mary Beth Kerrigan Was Encore Panelist at CLE Webinar on Venture Backed M&A

Back by popular demand, corporate partner Mary Beth Kerrigan spoke on an encore panel of this year's ABA Business Law Annual Meeting, titled "Venture Backed M&A: Special Considerations".  Mary Beth and her fellow panelists discussed complex issues that commonly arise in acquisitions of venture-backed companies, including complicated waterfalls, the blurring of management incentives with purchase price, and much …

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Jonathan Gworek Concludes Tenure as Chair of Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee at ABA Business Law Annual Meeting

This year's ABA Business Law Section Meeting will mark the end of Corporate Partner Jon Gworek's position as Chair of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee.  Jon was appointed as chair of the committee in 2013 during the annual meeting, and in the role has been integral in planning the committees activities and meetings.   …

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Scott Bleier Participating In This Year’s ABA Business Law Annual Meeting

MBBP Corporate Partner Scott Bleier will participate in two separate sessions during this year's ABA Business Law Annual Meeting in Boston.  Scott will be discussing the recent Sun Capital Partners III v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund (D. Mass. March 28, 2016) court case at the Private Equity and Venture Capital Jurisprudence meeting …

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MBBP Attorney Leads Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee at ABA Business Law Annual Meeting

In September, the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the ABA's Business Law Section met in Chicago at this year’s annual meeting. As chair of the ABA's PEVC Committee, MBBP corporate partner Jon Gworek was integrally involved in the planning of the committee’s activities and chaired the full committee meeting in Chicago which included …

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MBBP Attorney to Discuss Judicial Developments Pertaining to Venture Capital at ABA WebEx Meeting

On Friday, October 23 from 1-2pm, MBBP Corporate Attorney Scott Bleier will sit as one of four panelists at a WebEx meeting hosted by the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the American Bar Association. The panelists will discuss important cases that are to be featured in the upcoming Annual Survey of Judicial Developments …

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Jon Gworek Leads Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee at ABA Business Law Spring Meeting

Last month the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association met at the recent Business Law Section Spring Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. As chair of the PEVC committee, MBBP Partner Jon Gworek was involved in the planning of several committee meetings and CLE's. The PEVC committee's main CLE event …

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Jonathan Gworek Panels ABA Event on Great Hill Equity Partners Case

On January 27th, MBBP Corporate Partner and Chair of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the American Bar Association, Jonathan Gworek, moderated a webinar on the implications of the recent Great Hill Equity Partners case. In this case the Delaware Court of Chancery held that under Section 259 of the DGCL, all privileges—including …

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Jonathan Gworek Published in Business Law Today

MBBP Corporate Attorney and Chair of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the American Bar Association, Jonathan Gworek, was recently published in the January edition of Business Law Today, a publication by the American Bar Association. Jonathan's article, "The Threat of Social Media Diligence on the Confidentiality of the M&A Process", covers the very practical …

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Jonathan Gworek Takes on National Leadership Role as Chair of ABA Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee

At the American Bar Association's (ABA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco last month, Jonathan D. Gworek of Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC, was named chair of the Business Law Section’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Committee. As a recognized leader in the private equity and venture capital field, Jon brings to this new role over …

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