1. Your Legal Team
Legal Issues In a
Startup
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2. Breaking Ground
Your Legal Team
 Legal is only reactive
 Lawyers are “they”
 Complex
 Boring
 Only large corporates have them
 Know the law
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3. Top 10 Issues (only and not
exhaustive)
Your Legal Team
 Legal form
 Inter-se understanding amongst founders
 Capital structure
 We need funding
 Agreeing to funding terms out of
desperation
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4. …the
next lot
Your Legal Team
 Its urgent and hence sign or I know it
 The law firm might be big, but know your
lawyer
 Knowing when to ask.
 Get the legal folks engaged earlier on
 Non compliance, No
documentation, Don’t know
risks, Protection.
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5. Your Legal Team
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