A Guide to Legal and Business Practice. Paperback + E-Book, Lexis

Start-Up and Growth Companies in Canada: A Guide to Legal and Business Practice, 4th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to the issues that confront start-up and growth companies in Canada. It begins by examining the factors that shape the decision to turn an idea into a business, moves through the choice of corporate form and the allocation of shares and responsibilities among the founders, canvasses key employment law and intellectual property issues, and concludes with a review of strategies and legal structures used to raise debt and equity.

Author Bryce Tingle employs research from the economics and finance literature on start-up and growth companies to explain the factual context for legal structures, and to help lawyers and entrepreneurs predict the likely outcomes of the legal structures they put into place.

This new 4th Edition was written for legal, business and finance professionals who service clients in the start-up and growth company sector. More than just the relevant legal principles, the text positions the legal considerations within the business and social context of the start-up company, offering helpful advice that caters to the unique considerations of a young but fast-growing enterprise.

Features of This Book
Start-Up and Growth Companies in Canada: A Guide to Legal and Business Practice addresses three key areas in creating successful start-up and growth companies:

• Business and Financial Concerns
  • How to "founder-proof" a company – protecting it from conflicts among members of the founding team and preparing it for management transitions
  • How growth companies are valued
  • Legal structures that bridge valuation gaps
  • How to evaluate the different classes of investors
  • Choosing the right capital structure
  • How to raise capital while avoiding litigation risk and regulatory pitfalls
• Legal Issues
  • Determining the best way to commercially exploit an idea
  • Structuring equity incentive arrangements
  • Understanding common shareholder agreement terms and their most-likely impact on the company's future
  • Analysis of all major venture capital and mezzanine debt contractual terms
  • How to protect directors and officers from liability
• Practical Advice
  • Making venture capital and mezzanine debt structures work
  • Instituting effective corporate governance
  • Negotiating venture capital terms
  • Avoiding common errors in financings
  • Protecting a company's intellectual property and trade secrets
  • Understanding the effects of contractual provisions on corporate outcomes
  • Matchless insights and tips derived from the author's wealth of practical experience

What's New in This Edition

• Updated case law, research and market developments since the previous edition published eight years ago

Who Should Read This Book

• Corporate lawyers and in-house counsel – to provide analytical and practical treatment of the various legal issues these types of enterprises regularly engender and offer guidance relating to the most common transactions in which they are involved
• Securities and corporate finance lawyers – to guide their clients through complex regulatory, business and financial structuring
• Large corporate accounting firms/banking legal departments – to best advise their clients in their start-up and growth business transactions
• Law and business schools and libraries – to aid in the study of Canadian corporate finance and entrepreneurial law
• Public libraries – who want a unique reference for anyone interested in developing their own start-up company