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Corporation Lawyer in San Jose, California

DPA Law Group

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DPA Law Group, 'a Silicon Valley Business Law Firm'A boutique Silicon Valley business law firm, DPA Law Group provides strategic corporate counseling to self-funded start-ups, venture capital backed emerging technology companies, privately held brick and mortar businesses, angel investors, and off-shore investor groups and foreign corporations who have, or seek to establish, a corporate presence or branch in operation in Silicon Valley.'We focus on corporate and transactional matters, including: corporation, limited liability company and partnership structuring, formation, and operation; equity and venture capital financing; and contract negotiation and drafting in matters of e-commerce, hosted services, sales, sourcing, partnering, distribution channels and intellectual property transfer agreements. We are very active in merger and acquisition transactions and the purchase and sale of businesses.'On a select basis, we represent clients in mediation, arbitration and litigation in California state and federal courts, particularly in matters arising from breach of business contracts, partnership and stockholder disputes, and trade secret misappropriation or perceived unfair competition by employees or partners. 'Our lawyers have decades of combined experience with large and mid-sized international law firms. DPAs objective is to deliver that experience from an efficient platform at a cost reflective of our clients rapidly changing competitive economic landscape and needs. Client parent company locations range from California to Delaware in the United States, to Australia, Asia (Japan, Singapore, China, and India) and Europe (Ukraine, Romania, and the United Kingdom), internationally. '

Mission Statement

To provide San Jose quality Attorney assistance as a Corporation Lawyer, Startup Business Attorney, Business Mergers and Venture Capital Transactions.

DPA Law Group meeting your Attorney needs since .


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DPA Law Group is a law office located in San Jose, California. The boutique law firm has been locally owned and operated since its opening.

DPA specializes in venture capital transactions, business law, corporate litigation, startup business attorney, business litigation, corporate law attorney, business mergers, acquisitions, and business litigation attorney.

For more information call DPA Law Group at 408-300-5770 or visit www.dpalawyers.com


1) Startup Company Services

DPA Law Group organizes, on average, one startup company per week. Our startup clients often come to us as self-funded entrepreneurs operating within the greater San Jose/Silicon Valley area of Northern California. Most organize technology and Internet-based companies. Other times we are approached by off-shore companies seeking to establish a presence in Silicon Valley by organizing either a California or Delaware subsidiary. Prospective clients frequently seek initial guidance on the appropriate form of business entity and the appropriate state within which to organize


2) General Corporate Counsel

GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICES
An As-Needed Legal Department for Privately Held Companies

Certain of DPA’s of emerging company clients retain DPA Law Group as “outside general counsel.” This arrangement provides the client access daily dedicated access as needed to a lead business attorney, generally Drew Piunti, who understands its business, its contracts, its relative bargaining strengths, and the recurring support needs of the company’s team.

DPA’s Drew Piunti, supported by others at DPA and, as appropriate, a network of specialists, will typically respond in less than 30 minutes to inquiries from any company team member, and generally turn contracts supporting sales, partnering arrangements, procurement, staffing and HR in 24 hours or less.

As general counsel, DPA offers emerging growth companies flexible billing alternatives. These include a competitive reduced flat hourly rate (regardless of service provider), a fixed monthly retainer and/or a fixed price for certain deliverables.

Services provided include:

 Drafting, distributing and collecting necessary board and shareholder written consents and maintaining the hard copy of corporate minute books and stock ledgers and electronic copies other corporate records and agreements;
 Attending board and stockholder meetings, generating the minutes and resolutions for the same and providing related counsel and advice;
 Advising on corporate governance issues generally;
 Causing the corporation to be qualified as a foreign entity in jurisdictions where its conduct of business so requires;
 Amending, as required, articles of incorporation, bylaws or, as applicable, certificates of incorporation;
 Providing transactional contract support: reviewing, revising, drafting and, where appropriate, negotiating inbound and outbound agreements with vendors, service providers, officers, consultants, customers, partnering agreements, and lenders and generating online terms of use and privacy policy statements, services agreements and vendor/supplier agreements;
 Drafting and structuring of equity and non-equity based incentive compensation and stock option plans and individual equity awards;
 Managing outside litigation and liaising with outside counsel;
 Reviewing, and, as applicable, revising and negotiating commercial property lease agreements;
 Preparing and negotiating employment separation and severance agreements;
 Engaging in pre-hire review of certain candidates prior employment circumstances to ensure compliance with third party trade secret and IP rights;
 Providing and maintaining a client suite of incoming employment, proprietary rights, invention assignment and independent contractor agreements;
 Preparing restricted stock purchase agreements as incentives for certain independent contractors;
 Representing the company in venture finance rounds, including reviewing, negotiating and drafting financing transaction documents and supporting due diligence production and control; and,
 Causing government filings, including exempt security transaction notice filings, annual company statements and the like to be prepared and filed as necessary.
Owing in part to prior practice experience with national and international law firms, we recognize the need for companies to maintain relationship(s) with outside counsel who are specialists certain practice areas. We maintain relationships with many such specialists to ensure the client receives all appropriate legal representation.
Contact us to learn more about our firm, our general corporate services, and how we might be able to help. You can reach Andrew (Drew) Piunti by phone at (408)-300-5770 ext. 7 or via e-mail.


3) Contracts And Intellectual Property


4) Business Litigation And Dispute Resolution

Litigation is one mechanism for resolving business disputes. As advocates, our lawyers have resolved hundreds of litigated business disputes through negotiation, mediation and arbitration. When it benefits our client, we can be very creative in structuring resolutions that avoid protracted litigation or a trial


5) Mergers And Acquistions

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Buying and Selling a Business

DPA Law Group represents both acquiring and selling companies in business mergers and acquisitions. We have represented clients in M & A transactions involving both privately held and publicly traded acquirers in roll-up transactions, straight mergers, tax deferred mergers, reverse triangular mergers, and asset acquisitions. DPA attorneys have managed and completed exit transactions and acquisitions with values ranging from several hundred thousand to tens of millions of dollars. We have closed transactions in technology, retail, wholesale distribution, and manufacturing industries involving both domestic and international acquirers. We draw from our attorney’s corporate transactional strengths, and our network of attorneys, investment bankers, accountants and others to effectively assist clients in the process.
DPA Law Group’s Mergers and Acquisition Services
DPA’s experience in mergers and acquisition transactions includes:
• Guidance in pre-acquisition planning
• Assistance, where appropriate, in the retention of an investment banker or business broker to assist in finding potential buyers and closing the transaction
• Assistance with pre-transaction corporate governance, employee, intellectual property, contract and financial cleanup and disclosure matters
• Negotiating and drafting risk allocation and structural issues appropriate for letters of intent or a term sheet
• Identifying appropriate deal structures and tax efficiencies for buying clients and selling clients
• Assisting management with the content and control of acquisition due diligence with consideration for the definitive agreement’s anticipated representations and warranties, disclosure schedules and statement of exceptions
• Organizing acquisition subsidiaries to insulate acquirer’s parent from certain transaction risks
• Negotiating and drafting the definitive purchase or merger agreements, as applicable, disclosure schedule and related employment agreements
• Negotiating with lenders and holder’s of secured liens
• Facilitating compliance with all internal corporate formalities including stockholder approval of the transaction
• Representing clients in California Department of Corporation’s Fairness Hearings

Serving Area:

San Jose, Cupertiono, Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno

Counties

Marin, Santa Clara

Serving Zip Codes:

95125, 95125, 95113, 94301, 94309, 94306, 94041, 94042, 94949, 94024, 95134

Latitude

37.308185


Longitude

-121.9005335


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Areas Of Practice:

Corporation Lawyer

Startup Business Attorney

Business Mergers

Venture Capital Transactions

Business Litigation

Acquisitions

Business Lawyer

Corporate Law Attorney

Business Litigation Attorney

Corporate Litigation

Business Buy Sell

Contract Lawyer

Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney

Unfair Competition Attorney

Trade Secret Ltigation Attorney

Limited Liability Company Attorney

Silicon Valley

Partnership Disputes

Stockholder Disputes

Shareholder Disputes


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Sunday: CLOSED
Monday: 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Tuesday: 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Wednesday: 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Thursday: 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Friday: 8:30AM to 6:30PM
Saturday: CLOSED

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1100 Lincoln Ave #231, San Jose, CA 95125