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Corporate & Business Transactions Technology & Emerging Growth Companies

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Overview

Hinckley Allen’s Technology & Emerging Growth Companies Group helps clients actualize ideas, transforming their visions into reality.  We assist clients every step of the way as they develop tech-based products and services that maximize market opportunities and transform existing paradigms.

Comprehensive Counsel to Startup and Emerging Growth Companies

Hinckley Allen provides direction and support throughout the lifecycle of emerging businesses, from idea development, business formation, intellectual property protection, through financing, commercialization and growth, and ultimate exit.  We help clients develop, protect and enforce their IP rights, and obtain, incentivize and retain their greatest asset- their people.  We represent innovative companies across a range of sectors including software, hardware, digital media, cleantech, medtech, fintech, esports, edtech, insurtech, telecom, digital health, life sciences, and manufacturing.

Our Team

Our core team is composed of experienced lawyers from our leading Venture Capital & Private Equity, Technology Transactions & Licensing, Intellectual PropertyPrivacy & Data Security, White Collar & Government Enforcement, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Tax Groups.  This ensures that well-rounded perspective and necessary expertise are brought to bear to guide emerging businesses through the multitude of issues they face.  Always mindful of the financial constraints of emerging companies, we create tailored teams that deliver the right depth of legal experience and industry knowledge to meet our clients’ needs without exceeding their budget. We have the capabilities and expertise of a national firm, but with the agility and responsiveness that can only come from a firm of our size, enabling cost-effective management of your legal needs.

Taking Clients to the Next Level

Our attorneys work with entrepreneurs, innovators, and emerging businesses as they take their venture to the next level. Whether it be developing strategies to protect and monetize IP, devising channels and approaches to collaborate with other market participants, or helping to properly structure and connect clients with fundraising sources, our team is there to help clients forge the plan and relationships necessary to compete, expand, and prosper.

Services

Our services include:

  • Business formation and structuring
  • Angel, venture capital, and private equity investments as well as nontraditional financing arrangements
  • Patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protection, monetization, optimization and enforcement
  • Technology transfer, co-development, and licensing arrangements
  • Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity issues
  • Labor and employment issues
  • Nondisclosure, non-solicit, and non-compete agreements
  • Equity compensation programs and other employee benefits
  • Day-to-day operational issues
  • M&A and other strategic transactions
  • Corporate governance and public company matters
  • White collar defense
  • Dispute resolution

Representative Experience

  • Represented Open Water Power, an undersea power technology startup founded by MIT graduate students, from “cradle to grave” as its outside general counsel. We represented the company from the early days as it operated on a “shoestring” to when it obtained governmental R&D funding and then third-party investment, and in its eventual sale to L3 Technologies, a major defense contractor.
  • Represent investment firm Momentum Equity Partners in minority and control investments and in the sales of its portfolio companies: Acorio to NTT Data, Meteorix to IBM, and EdgeRock Technologies to CDI.
  • Represent Hard Carry Gaming, a professional gaming and entertainment company, operating under the name “NRG Esports.” We represented the company in its first institutional round of financing and have continued as it: completed subsequent financing rounds; acquired numerous professional esports teams, including the San Francisco franchise in the Overwatch League, the Chicago franchise in the Call of Duty League and the League of Legends team from Madison Square Garden; acquired an esports marketing agency; and engaged in commercial collaborations with sponsors, influencers, entertainers and other industry participants.
  • Represent Transaera, Inc., developer of innovative affordable, energy-efficient air-conditioning and dehumidification systems, from inception through Series Seed (latest) financing by Energy Impact Partners LP’s Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund, Carrier Ventures, Saint Gobain, and MassCEC.

Case Studies

Hinckley Allen Represents Leader in Managed Network Services in Sale to Managed Infrastructure Solutions Provider

Hinckley Allen represented Static1, a NJ-based managed network services expert, to 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider.  With the tools, processes and knowledge to design, build, run and optimize IT infrastructures, Static1 builds w…

Hinckley Allen Represents Cyber Security Consultancy in Sale to Specialized Global Consulting Firm

Hinckley Allen represented TBG Security, a cyber security consultancy that provides offensive and defensive cyber consulting services, to JS Held, a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific and financial expertise across all assets and value …

Newsroom

Publication

Corporate & Business Transactions Report — 2023

February 2, 2024

We represent buyers, sellers, and investors — including middle-market and family-owned companies — on their most important business transactions. Our professionals bring a critical combination of experience, practicality, and a deep understanding of ma…

Publication

Corporate & Business Transaction Report - 2022

January 31, 2023

See how we drove results for our clients in 2022 across a variety of industries.

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Firm News

Jeremy P. Siegel Joins Hinckley Allen's Corporate & Business Transactions Practice Group

February 13, 2024

Hinckley Allen is pleased to welcome Jeremy P. Siegel to the firm as an associate in the Corporate & Business Transactions Practice Group. Jeremy’s wealth of experience includes supporting startups and emerging growth companies with venture capital f…

Firm News

Hinckley Allen Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America® 2024

August 17, 2023

A multitude of Hinckley Allen attorneys are recognized in their respective practice areas in Best Lawyers® 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. In addition, 11 Hinckley Allen attorneys were named in the “Lawyers of the Year” category, as wel…