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TAILORED & STREAMLINED

Cost-Effective and Highly Experienced Service

With some of the most experienced startup deal counsels in the Midwest, you can rest assured that you are getting the guidance you need at a price you can plan for and afford.

We represent high-growth companies of all sizes and stages in technology, health care, life sciences, consumer product goods, nanomaterials, transportation, communication, medical devices and more. We guide clients through their growth and funding cycles, offering customized counsel on day-to-day legal matters to funding to exits. Our seasoned team can help you navigate the confusing waters of growth, funding, expansion and those tricky legal issues that arise with those situations, often at set pricing or budgeted pricing using our firm-wide proprietary SmartPaTH Plus™ tool.

While managing your legal costs is important, even more crucial is knowing that you have the support of a strong team and a wealth of legal experience to help guide you through some of the most significant business decisions you will make as a founder, and at Thompson Hine, we are your dedicated team.

You have an idea for a business or service, and it’s time to get started. Our team stands ready to help. At this stage, it’s important to lay the right legal foundation (missteps or hacks can come back to haunt you), but your resources are limited. We understand that. Our approach to incorporation was specifically designed with those concerns in mind. We provide the counsel and documents you need to not only get started, but to do so comprehensively and based on established best practices.

If, like so many others, you started out as a limited liability company but are ready to position the company for investment and convert to a corporation, we can help. With dozens and dozens of these transactions under our belt, we’ll make the process quick and easy (click here to see how it usually goes).

Click here to see the fixed-pricing model we use for LLC conversion transactions.

As your business starts to track, you will begin to encounter day-to-day legal needs. Reviewing NDAs, drafting MSAs, structuring license agreements, and so on. We have the know-how to cover you here, and because we deal with these matters all the time, you won’t be investing in a learning curve. We turn documents quickly and cost-effectively.

Click here to learn more about our fixed-price packages to take care of your day-to-day legal needs.

IP Commercialization

We understand all manner of technology transactions, including IP commercialization. Whether you require in-license, out-license, sale or another more exotic structure, we can help.

Specialists Who Know Startups

It takes a village. Our core team covers the bases, but there are times when specific technical knowledge is required in adjacent legal areas. And our firm provides that. Whether it involves tax, compensation, intellectual property, employment, securities, immigration or any number of other business or legal issues, we can put together the team you need.

Congratulations! You’ve hooked an investor. We’ll be with you at every step, from the initial high-level discussions through structuring the term sheet, negotiating definitive documents and closing the deal.

Once we dig in, it’s unlikely that there are issues we haven’t seen or challenges we haven’t faced.  We understand market terms and best practices – in many cases, we helped develop them. You need a trusted partner to get you to the end zone, and it would be our privilege to play that role for you.

Click here to learn more about our fixed-price packages designed to help you structure and close your next round.

Or, click here if you’re looking to expand your current round to bring in more capital or push it out so you have more time to finish off your raise.

Exit transactions or liquidity events for high-growth companies are different from traditional M&A work. The buyer’s priorities are different. The deal points of sensitivity are different. The structures and desired outcomes are different. We understand that. We leverage the deep bench of transactional experience that our firm brings to bear, flavored by our understanding of your company and our grasp of the unique nuances of your world. We’ve been there. We’ve done that.