By Kresimir Peharda, partner Business owners know their businesses better than anyone else. What they don’t know is how to prepare for a sale and how to obtain the best…
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner What is it? For entities taxed as partnerships, a capital interest is an interest in the company that is realized upon a capital event. Typical capital…
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner Private companies sometimes find themselves with more shareholders than they intended and had planned for. That can come about as a result of crowdfunding, acquisition, reorganization,…
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner Business owners often ask what could go wrong when evaluating an acquisition of a private company. While anecdotal evidence is helpful a study is even better. …
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner Whether you are a start-up or a public company and are dealing with a third party you are often faced with the question of: do we…
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. On July 21, 2016, a blue ribbon panel of 13 individuals issued a set of guidelines for corporate governance for U.S. public companies. The guidelines are…

By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. Statistics vary but we do know that a great deal of acquisitions do not produce the results the buyer expected. According to the June 2016 issue…

By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. The LA Times reported on July 14, 2016 that LA start-ups received a whopping 57% cash from VCs in Q2 of 2016 compared with 2015. See…

By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. In a previous post I outlined the crowdfunding universe and some of the factors to consider in selecting a option. See http://vestedlaw.com/retail-crowdfunding-and-the-expanding-crowdfunding-universe/ In this post I…

By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. May 21, 2016 Start-ups and other companies often issue restricted stock to founders and early employees that is subject to vesting. They do this in order to…