Legal Services
Angel Investment and Venture Financing
Raising money isn’t easy, and Fourscore can help with our extensive experience in early and mid-stage investments involving the sale and purchase of preferred stock, convertible promissory notes, SAFEs, and other convertible securities. Knowing these transactions inside and out allows us to represent you (whether you are raising money or investing) with the utmost efficiency and flexibility.
Intellectual Property
If it’s worth doing at all, then you aren’t the only one who will think so. Be certain you own and retain the intellectual property you create and pay others to create. Whether it is time to in-license intellectual property to bolster your business or your strategy is to out-license what your company has invented, Fourscore will make sure your license deal is documented accurately with all the protection you need. Ask us how Fourscore can help you protect your brand value with our Trademark Registration services.
Startup Counseling and Business Formation
The attorneys at Fourscore Business Law have crafted a lot of companies over the past decade. We regularly advise startup clients, helping them navigate through the decision-making process of what business entity type to choose and which state’s law to use. We help founders think through the issues that arise when starting a new business and those that come with adding partners to an existing venture. Fourscore has a Delaware licensed attorney on staff, giving us a unique ability to advise our clients on forming their company under Delaware laws when appropriate.
Real Estate Development
Fourscore represents multiple developers and investors in real estate development projects in and around Raleigh and Durham. Although similar in some respects to angel and venture financing deals, real estate development projects carry their own set of nuanced issues. Whether you are a developer or an investor, Fourscore can help you identify and handle those issues.
Employment Law and Consultant Relationships
No one can do it alone so you will, at some point, need to build a team of competent people to help row the boat. You’ll also need people to repair it, add to it and build an engine of some sort. Progress requires many hands and we can help you get the right people on the boat. Whether that means hiring full-time employees or bringing in experienced individuals or organizations as independent contractors, Fourscore lawyers have the experience to handle agreements, equity compensation, intellectual property ownership issues and other matters that arise when building a team.
Sports & Entertainment
Your skills and talents are valuable. Here at Fourscore, we piece together elements of a broad range of legal disciplines to help you protect your interests across industries including media, entertainment, advertising, and sports. Our clients are involved in film and television, theater, music, publishing, apps, and games.
Contract Negotiation, Drafting and Review
Like most businesses, Fourscore Law clients find themselves in a variety of circumstances on any given day. Fourscore lawyers provide general counsel services to businesses in a wide range of industries and sizes, which allows us to draw on diverse legal experience to advise our business clients in the best possible way. We guide clients through:
Investor relations questions
Intellectual property matters
License agreements
Commercial contracts issues
Hiring and terminations
Real estate leases
Dispute resolution and litigation avoidance services
