Venture capitalists are waking up to a new and uncomfortable problem: typically collaborative investors are finding themselves at odds with each other when portfolio companies move to exit or raise ...

In July 2015, GoodCents entered into a merger transaction. Because the merger consideration was less than the liquidation preference GoodCents believed its preferred stockholders were entitled to in ...

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In a venture capital deal, a liquidation preference refers to the payout investors receive in a liquidation event (like a sale or merger) prior to any payments made to the common stockholders. Venture ...

In the past few years promissory notes and SAFEs have become an increasingly popular way to fund early-stage companies. Fenwick completes hundreds of these types of financings for its clients each ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the last installment in this series of articles on venture capital deals, I discussed what every entrepreneur needs to know in order ...