January 11, 2024 - When negotiating licenses to intellectual property (IP) or collaboration agreements (such as research partnerships, sponsored projects, and joint ventures), universities frequently ...

Avoiding Pitfalls in Preparing a Mediation Term Sheet If the term sheet contains all of the material terms of the parties' agreement and is expressly made enforceable in the absence of a more formal ...

When we launched in 2016, we took the unusual approach of saying we’d buy common stock in startups. We believed then, and still do, that alignment with founders was more important than covering our ...

For the past few months, I’ve been exploring some of the more confusing terminology in VC term sheets. In my last post, I discussed redemption rights. Today, I’m looking at the non-binding and ...