Synopses & Reviews
A must for business owners, this comprehensive yet succinct legal guide helps entrepreneurs identify legal issues and avoid legal pitfalls. It follows the progression of a start-up business and anticipates its legal concerns every step of the way - through the stages of growth up to an IPO and everything in between. Completely in tune with an increasingly electronic business market, the book offers valuable insight into legalities of the bustling e-commerce trade, including coverage of e-contracts, electronic signatures, trademarks, domain names and other issues involved with intellectual property and cyberlaw. It also covers employee privacy, e-mail monitoring and alternative dispute resolution. And The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law offers practical tips for buying and selling a business, as well as discussions on the implications of gaining a "global" presence.
Synopsis
This book contains 17 chapters that follow the progression of a start-up business and anticipate its legal concerns through the stages of growth up to an initial public offering. The new edition integrates e-commerce and international issues where appropriate. This text is appropriate at both the undergraduate and graduate level for those courses that cover legal issues and entrepreneurs. Depending on the course, it could be used as either a core text or a supplement.
About the Author
Constance E. Bagley is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Yale School of Management, where she teaches legal aspects of entrepreneurship and management. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 2000, she taught for more than 10 years at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she received Honorable Mention (first runner-up) for the Distinguished Teaching Award. Before teaching at Stanford, she was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen. She was also a member of the faculty of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) International University for Presidents in Hong Kong and the Czech Republic. Professor Bagley is the author of Winning Legally: How Managers Can Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (Harvard Business School Press 2005) and the coauthor (with Diane W. Savage) of Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century 5th ed., (Thomson West Legal Studies in Business 2006). She is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers' National Adjudicatory Council and the Wharton School's Zicklin Center for Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, a staff editor of the American Business Law Journal, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Bureau of National Affairs Corporate Practice Series. Professor Bagley received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Harvard Law School and was invited to join the Harvard Law Review. She received her A.B., with Honors and Distinction, from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She is a member of the State Bar of California (inactive) and the State Bar of New York.Craig E. Dauchy is a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP's Palo Alto office, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and head of the Venture Capital practice group firm-wide. With nearly 600 lawyers and additional offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and San Diego, California; New York City, New York; Reston, Virginia; Washington D.C., and Broomfield, Colorado and Boston, Massachusetts. Cooley Godward Kronish is one of the nation's leading law firms providing counsel to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The firm has represented both issuers and underwriters in nearly 400 public offerings in recent years and consistently ranks among the Top 10 law firms handling venturebacked initial public offerings for companies in the United States. In recent years, the firm has represented companies or underwriters in more than 200 public offerings, including more than 100 IPOs. Mr. Dauchy has represented entrepreneurs, emerging companies, and venture capitalists in diverse industries, including medical devices, software, health care, electronics, and consumer products, for more than 30 years. He is a frequent lecturer on matters relating to securities law and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital. He also serves on a number of advisory boards and boards of directors. Mr. Dauchy has a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in history from Yale University. He is a member of the State Bar of California.
Table of Contents
1. Taking the Plunge 2. Leaving Your Employer 3. Selecting and Working with an Attorney 4. Deciding Whether to Incorporate 5. Structuring the Ownership 6. Contracts, Leases, and E-Commerce 7. Raising Money and Securities Regulation 8. Marshalling Human Resources 9. Selling Goods and Services 10. Operational Liabilities 11. Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy 12. Venture Capital 13. Forming and Working with the Board 14. Creating Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw 15. Going International 16. Going Public 17. Buying and Selling a Business