VRAR Hub Lunch & Learn: Investor Readiness Seminar

On February 12th, Launch Academy, the VRARA Vancouver and Gowling WLG are teaming up to help your emerging tech start-up be investor ready.

SOS! Start-Up Structuring and Shareholder Agreements

For start-ups in any industry, proper structuring and incorporating is critical to investor readiness. A start-up that takes the time to think through and properly set up its share structure early will avoid future disputes and better protect the company and its assets.

Tara Amiri and Braden Lauer from Gowling WLG are coming to Launch Academy on February 12 to discuss the numerous considerations, common questions and pitfalls that come with this “SOS!” moment in an early-stage start-up. The presentation touches on:

• Business structures;
• Common term sheet terms in early-stage companies; and
• Shareholder agreements, and common rights and obligations within.

A well-structured company will attract investors and strategic partners and can be critical to achieving successful financings and exits. The topics set out in this presentation will assist early-stage companies to ask all of the right questions, anticipate common pitfalls, and prepare them for success.

 

Agenda:

11:30 AM: Check-in, lunch

12:00 PM Seminar begins

1:00-1:30 PM Seminar ends, networking

 

About the speakers:

Tara Amiri, Associate Lawyer @ Gowling WLG

Tara practices corporate and securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance for public and private companies, mergers and acquisitions, mining, and investment funds. Tara advises her clients on all legal aspects of their business. Having previously worked as in-house legal counsel at a full-service financial services company, Tara understands the value of tailored and practical legal advice and strives to understand her clients’ business and provide sensible advice that suits each client’s unique legal and business needs.
Prior to joining Gowling WLG, Tara was an in-house legal counsel at a financial services company and a lawyer at another international law firm.

Braden Lauer, Associate Lawyer @ Gowling WLG’s business law group

Braden's practice includes:

• Corporate commercial work, M&A, sales of private businesses, corporate governance (incorporation, reorganization and dissolution of companies, and advice to shareholders, officers and directors), specifically as these relate to the emerging tech sector in British Columbia;
• Domestic and international franchising, licensing, and product distribution; and
• Commercial real estate acquisition, disposition, and development.