Areas of Expertise

Corporate Counsel to Tech and Life Science Start-Ups and Emerging Growth Companies
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur or you are leading your first start up, we are with you every step of the way. We advise you on entity formation and structure, capitalization, founders’ equity, stock option plans, angel, seed and venture financings, M&A, strategic transactions, technology licenses, and other matters vital to your success.

Angel, Seed and Venture Financings
We offer sophisticated counsel on fundraising, governance and investments to angel and VC investors, as well as companies raising investment capital. We are plugged into both the Bay Area emerging company ecosystem and the angel and venture investor community and bring that expertise to bear in negotiating the most advantageous terms for our clients’ financings.

Mergers, Acquisitions, Flip Ups and Other Strategic Transactions
Our multi-national law firm roots give us tremendous depth of experience in mergers and acquisitions. We represent buyers and sellers ranging from large, privately-held companies to special-purpose corporations or funds, to hot tech companies less than a year old. Whether your company is making a strategic acquisition or being approached by potential purchasers for the first time, we are experts in helping our clients structure, negotiate and close mergers, stock and asset sales, and other strategic transactions. For our non-US start-up clients seeking access to US venture capital, we structure “flip-up” transactions whereby the foreign entity becomes a subsidiary of a newly-formed Delaware corporation that serves as the US parent. We partner with our clients well before the letter of intent stage to ensure they achieve their strategic goals.

International Business Transactions
Companies from Sydney to Mumbai, from Berlin to London, and from Tel Aviv to San Francisco seek us out for our expertise in corporate international transactions. We tap into our extensive world-wide legal and business network to help our clients successfully expand into the US and into new markets abroad. Our firm has represented countless non-US start-ups and SMEs seeking access to the US market. Cross-border business is one of the firm’s passions and a key area of our expertise. We have advised clients in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Israel, China (including Hong Kong), India, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. 

Executive Employment, Board and Advisor Arrangements
Montgomery Pacific advises individual executives and companies on their senior executive and key employee employment agreements, Board and Advisor agreements, and related equity compensation arrangements.