We Offer Services In Angel Investment Venture Capital Startup Counseling Business Formation Mergers & Acquisitions Intellectual Property Employment Law Outside General Counsel Real Estate Development Sports & Entertainment Alternative Dispute Resolution

Angel Investment and Venture Financing

Raising and Investing Money

Raising money isn’t easy, and Fourscore can help with our extensive experience in early 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, even offering flat fee pricing on most deals.

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.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Buying and Selling Businesses

We represent clients who are merging with strategic partners, setting up joint ventures, buying existing businesses, and selling businesses for cash, stock or a combination. Fourscore lawyers are regularly involved in advising clients through stock sales and asset sales. We walk alongside you through the entire process of buying or selling a business. We will work with your tax advisor to:

Help structure the deal
Handle and organize due diligence and corporate cleanup
Draft the transaction documents

Outside General Counsel

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
Other situations that prove reality is stranger than fiction

In most cases we handle matters in house. When necessary we bring in trusted partners to answer questions and, in all cases, Fourscore completely owns the issue for you so you can get back to business.

Intellectual Property

Preemptive protection.

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.

Employment Law and Consultant Relationships

Team Building

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.

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.

Our Clients And Their Stories

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