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What You Need to Know About a Real Estate PPM
By Kresimir Peharda, partner What is it? A private placement memorandum (PPM) is used by a sponsor to raise capital from investors. It is a disclosure document that typically contains basic information about the project or investment strategy, geographic focus,...
Acquiring a Company: Here Is What Can Go Wrong
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. The following is based on SRS Acquiom’s 2015 M&A Claims Study. Even...
How to Decide if You Need a NDA
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 need a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Most of the time the answer is yes. However, some of the time a NDA...
2 Tips for Successful Acquisitions
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 of Harvard Business Review, 70-90% of M&A deals do not meet expectations. While there...
VC Investment in LA Start-ups Drops 57%
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...
Vested Successfully Defends Patent Infringement Suit
Vested Law obtained dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit again our client G-Stage in Case No. 16CV0760-H-RBB, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The lawsuit was filed March 31, 2016 by plaintiff Landmark Technology, LLC, and alleged...
Overlooked Issues in Evaluating Crowdfunding Options
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 https://vestedlaw.com/retail-crowdfunding-and-the-expanding-crowdfunding-universe/ In this post I want to highlight two...
What is an 83B Election and Why You Should Care
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 attract and retain key personnel. As a consequence, an issue that often arises...
Minimizing Officer and Director Liability
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. May 14, 2016 I often get asked: How do I reduce my exposure as an officer and director? Apart from the obvious of don’t become an officer or director, there are a variety of approaches that can be utilized to maximize protection. The...
Your Pricing Strategy Can Make or Break Your Company
By Kat Shoa, A Vested Law Business Ally ... Over the years, in the role of strategy consultant or interim executive of my client companies, pricing has become one of the key metrics I immediately zoom in on for revenue growth and financial stability. And I've managed...
Acres of Diamonds
By Michael Preston A Vested Law Ally • Acres of Diamonds is a fantastic and inspirational lecture by Russell Conwell that was given over 6,000 times all over the world. The premise of his talk was that far too often we think that the key to real success lies somewhere...
Important Deadline for Getting Tens of Thousands in Tax Credits
If you hired 20 blue collar/no collar employees in 2015, you should be claiming $10,000 or more in Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credits on your 2016 return. From 10% to 30% of the blue collar/no collar employees you hired in 2015 can make you, the employer, eligible...
Vested Wins Domain Name Battle Against Micros Systems & Oracle
Micros Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a subsidiary of Oracle represented by Holland and Hart, P.C. lost a trademark litigation matter against SFR Funding represented by Steven Rinehart of Vested Law on March 11, 2016 involving the domain name microsretail.com. Micros...
Vested Wins Big for Big Box Retailers
Vested Law Successfully Defends Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Toys “R” Us, Inc. in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Vested Law obtains dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit in Case No. 2:15-cv-06449-SJO-RAO, U.S. District Court for the Central District of...
IP Business Sense 101 – Conduct an IP Audit
By Todd R. Miller, Managing Partner. All too often a company starts on one path—and through its business growth and evolution— finds itself on another one. What used to be the company’s core technologies or markets are no longer core. As a result, the company is...
Kresimir Peharda Interview | Exit Coach
March 20, 2016 Vested's own Kresimir Peharda, Co-Chair of our Business & Finance Group, was recently interviewed by Exit Coach's Bill Black to gain Kresimir's insights into preparing to sell a business. Exit Coach is the information station for age 50+ business...
Typical Intellectual Property Questions Answered
How do we know if the money in our IP budget is being well spent? Absent knowledge, you don’t. Somebody on your team should have at least some understanding what typical services cost and what you should receive for those services. When the services are rendered,...
Retail Crowdfunding and the Expanding Crowdfunding Universe
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. March 17, 2016 The holy grail of crowdfunding aka retail crowdfunding will go live in a mere 3 months. In May of 2016 this last piece of the JOBS Act will be available for use. This will allow start-ups to raise up to $1 million over a 12...
Protecting Patent Holders of Clean Technology
By Todd R. Miller, Managing Partner. Originally published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal (2010) Almost two decades ago, 154 nations agreed to reduce atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate...
Crowdfunding Confusion Clarified
By Kresimir Peharda, Partner. Recent articles and news coverage have demonstrated that there is a lot of confusion about what crowdfunding is and is not. To shed some light on this topic let’s look at the history of crowdfunding. History Crowdfunding as a concept and...