Business Start-ups

Xcel Law Group startup business law practice occupies a unique niche in the United States. Our law firm has represented early-stage startup business clients from China, Korea, Japan, other South-east Asian countries, and those in the United States that sought to bypass the one-size-fits-all representation of the large law firms. Our focus has always been on founders.

Our attorneys have in-depth experience in dealing with startup business issues at formation - founder arrangements , company setup timing issues, equity incentives, restricted stock grants, and securities law compliance, among others (including the Delaware question, cheap stock and capitalization questions, work-for-hire issues, and 83(b) election issues) – and with the intellectual property or IP issues that are often critical to a typical startup business in the technology field. We handle not only the corporate and IP but also the business tax aspects of all such issues, including the corporate and strategic advice that will guide your startup through the legal complexities of an early-stage business. Our lawyers likewise have taken many early-stage startups through preferred stock and other funding rounds with bridge investors, strategic investors, angel investors and VCs and have carried many of them right through to acquisition.

Our intellectual property expertise is strong and embraces the full range of arrangements for IP protection, IP licensing, and IP development, including trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters, as well as, E-commerce and Internet issues, and strategic alliances.

Our roots lie and remain with small business owners even as we have come to specialize in early-stage startup business law.

Our small business legal services include: forming business entities, such as a corporation or LLC; selling or merging business entities, such as an asset or stock sale; handling corporate work of all kinds and advising on corporate maintenance; drafting, reviewing, and advising on contracts of all kinds, including commercial leases and standard terms; employment and contractor issues and counseling; trademark and other intellectual property matters; Internet law; and commercial deals of all kinds.

In small business matters, we do everything from spot projects to acting as outside general legal counsel for our clients. We handle the full range of small business legal matters, however large or small.