Petillon, Hiraide, Loomis,

PUBLICATIONS

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  "Representing Start-Up Companies,"
    by Lee R. Petillon and Robert Joe Hull (published in 1992; updated annually)

  Summary of Contents
  

  • Chapter 1. Role of the Lawyer
  • Chapter 2. Formation of the Venture
  • Chapter 3. Agreements between the Founders
  • Chapter 4. Methods of Initial Financing
  • Chapter 5. Sources of Initial Financing
  • Chapter 6. Securities Law Considerations
  • Chapter 7. Negotiating the Initial Financing
  • Chapter 8. Compensation and Stock Incentives for Key Employees
  • Chapter 9. Initial Operating Problems
  • Chapter 10. Second round Financing
  • Chapter 11. Initial Public Offering
  • Chapter 12. Operating Public Companies
  • Chapter 13. Planning for Liquidity of the Founders' Stock
  • Chapter 14. Special Problems in Sales or Mergers of the Company.
  • Plus 102 Appendices, at the end of each chapter (sample agreements, checklists, directories, etc.)
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Laws and rules
  • Table of Cases
  • Index

• "Alternatives to Conventional IPO's"
    The Business Law Update, Winter 2008 [click here]

• "The Entrepreneurial End Game: Alternative Exit Strategies"
    Action Items Newsletter, October 2008 [click here]

• "Capital Gains, Small Companies Stand to Gain from the
    Newly Streamlined SEC Rules in Public Offerings"
    Los Angeles Lawyer, July-August 2008 Issue [click here]

• "Private Offerings Using Non-Registered Broker/Dealers"
    The Business Law Update, Spring 2005 [click here]