Mr. Green, in addition to providing day-to-day legal advice to dozens of venture-backed businesses, has spent the past 20 years representing hundreds of growth companies in a wide variety of venture capital, M&A, licensing and other transactions. The following recent engagements are fairly typical of the practice:
- Advising Chicago-based SaaS business in procuring $3 million venture capital investment from a consortium of Silicon Valley investors
- Advising Midwestern SEO / SEM agency in connection with a sale of its business to one of the larger digital marketing agencies in the United States
- Advising high-growth lead generation business in connection with negotiating and closing a $10+ million venture debt transaction
- Advising early-stage business in structuring and closing a $1,500,000 Series A round of venture capital financing from Chicago-based venture capital and angel investors
- Advising Midwestern family office in connection with a $13 million private equity acquisition, as well as a separate $1,000,000+ venture capital investment
- Advising India-based conglomerate in connection with series of multi-million dollar acquisitions in the publishing space across various locations within the United States
- Advising Chicago-based technology company in connection with German joint venture
- Creating base master service agreement and statement of work, online terms of use, online privacy policy, employee confidentiality and non-solicitation agreement, form employee offer letter, stock option plan and form advisory board agreement for angel-funded Chicago-based start-up
- Representing founder in connection with negotiating CEO equity and compensation package with venture capital investors
- Advising university professors and PhDs in connection with commercializing and creating a business around university intellectual property