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San
Franciso's Emerging Business & Technology Group
The Emerging Business and Technology Group
in Davis Wright Tremaine's San Francisco office provides comprehensive
legal services to new and growing technology companies in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The group assists entrepreneurs in business planning,
corporate organization, securities issuance, intellectual property
protection, and financing.
At Davis Wright Tremaine we pride ourselves on our responsiveness,
our concern about our clients' day-to-day legal needs, our economical
fees, and our careful approach to conflicts of interest, billing practices
and other ethical concerns.
We recognize that, in addition to their special requirements, emerging
businesses need prompt and economical general legal advice. At the
outset of every new engagement we identify a team to partner with
our client and to assist it in every way that a dedicated general
counsel would--both as lawyers and as business counselors. We provide
a designated contact attorney available by pager to handle your immediate
needs.
We represent companies and investors in private equity and debt financing
transactions, including seed financing, strategic investments, venture
capital and convertible debt financing for emerging companies, and
private placements of equity and debt securities for companies at
various stages of development. Our attorneys also represent issuers
and underwriters in initial and secondary public offerings. The firm
offers the full range of intellectual property and technology services,
from traditional copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent issues
to the developing law of the Internet, computers, and biotechnology,
with licensing and litigation expertise in all areas. Unlike other
firms with recently added intellectual property practices, Davis Wright
Tremaine offers its clients the benefit of a firm that has practiced
in this complicated area of law for decades.
In addition to these specialized services, we place the firm's extensive
general practice at the disposal of new and emerging companies in
the Bay Area, providing expert help in the full range of legal services-everything
from general business services to immigration, employment, tax planning,
leasing and litigation. We maintain the firm's 75-year dedication
to understanding our clients' business, and responding to their day-to-day
needs. We represent many large national and international corporations,
and we are fully equipped to handle your needs as your business grows.
Our goal is to share your prosperity over the long term, not to capitalize
on opportunities to bill for legal services. We understand that start-up
companies have tight budgets. We have a program aimed at providing
the full range of basic legal services that a start-up company needs
for a fixed retainer, with equity participation if legal costs exceed
the retainer. Of course, traditional hourly rates are available to
clients who prefer them.
The firm has a national reputation in communications, media and information
technologies, including Internet and e-commerce, software, telecommunications
and intellectual property. Our expertise in these areas is available
to our Bay Area clients through lawyers in our offices in San Francisco,
Seattle, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. The firm's eleven offices
are linked by state-of-the-art telecommunications that allow us to
deploy any of our resources effectively in office. Our five West Coast
offices, with our offices in Honolulu and Shanghai, give us a Pacific
Rim focus that affords unique opportunities for our international
technology clients.
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