Emerging Companies

Our Approach

Every entrepreneur has a vision. To bring that vision to life, every single entrepreneur must face and overcome stiff challenges. From finding product-market fit to partnering with the right investors to making the best engineering, strategy and legal decisions, the road to success is littered with obstacles that threaten every startup’s chance of survival. 

NP understands the entrepreneur’s journey. We know that more than needing lawyers, entrepreneurs need partners to resolve thorny problems — often novel problems that no one has ever successfully surmounted. We appreciate how hard the journey can be, and that’s precisely why we provide legal services in a broader, problem-solving context.

Our Commitment to You

The most iconic technology companies have one thing in common:  they succeeded in doing something most believed to be impossible. At NP, we believe in something many think is impossible. We believe that it is possible to understand a client’s business so well that every piece of legal advice NP provides has a positive, measurable impact on that startup’s chance of success.

Our goal is to provide bespoke services to innovators who are laser-focused on optimizing business and legal decisions at high velocity. In the spirit of reaching that goal together, the following is a sample of some of the services we offer to emerging companies:    

• Strategic product counseling to help manage and eliminate regulatory risk associated with building consumer and enterprise technology products;
• Intellectual property protection strategies, including portfolio management, to protect your most valuable innovations;
• Choice of entity and business formation to ensure rational ownership among the founders, advisors and other team members so future fundraising and recruiting efforts run smoothly;
• Friends and family, angel, venture capital, and private equity financing transactions;
• Effective equity incentive plans to align the interests of founders, key stakeholders and employees;
• Support throughout a company’s life cycle for governance matters, including founder disputes and nuanced matters of corporate control;
• Licensing and other technology transactions to optimize revenue and reduce the risk of litigation;
• A proactive approach to employment and consulting agreements to minimize avoidable disputes that otherwise distract entrepreneurs from the mission at hand;
• Legal and strategic support for any cross-border business challenges or regulatory hurdles either through our direct experience or collaboratively with our network of international firms;
• Immigration support to enable the buildout of a world-class organization.

Our Commitment to the Startup Ecosystem

We have relationships with accelerators in cities across the country, including:

• BioLabs at NYULangone
• Cambridge Innovation Center
• Cedars-Sinai Accelerator
• High Tech Rochester
• LaunchPad Long Island
• Tumml

We leverage our relationships with accelerators, prominent angel investors, venture capitalists and investment banks to assist our startup partners. We go to great lengths to understand your business objectives and your unique capital situation, so we can deliver efficient legal services that serve your startup’s evolving priorities. 

We work with startups in the following industries:

• AR/VR
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Autonomous vehicle technology
• Big Data
• Blockchain
• Bioinformatics
• Cannabis
• Cleantech
• Consumer products
• E-commerce & retail
• Fashion
• Fintech
• Gaming
• Healthtech/Biotech
• Investor Topics
• Justice/Diversity
• Media and entertainment
• Medical devices
• Mobile healthcare technology
• Mobility
• Network infrastructure
• New media
• Privacy/Security
• Robotics/IoT/Hardware
• SaaS
• Social impact/Education
• Social media
• Software
• Space
• Transportation
• Tech-enabled services