Playing Defense: Strategies For Negotiating Venture Deal Terms in 2009

Foley Partner Paul Broude participates as a presenter in a Web Conference on deal terms hosted by Dow Jones VentureSource titled, Playing Defense: Strategies for Negotiating Venture Deal Terms in 2009 on June 18.

Discussion topic highlights include:

• Picking the right time to raise venture capital
  
• Choosing rock-solid investors
  
• Finding a fair valuation in an uncertain market
  
• Repairing broken syndicates
  
• How to deal with troublesome terms, including:
  
  
  
  • Anti-dilution
  
  
  • Pay-to-play
    
  • Liquidation preferences
    
  • Cramdowns


• Creative ways companies are finding financing outside of venture

For more information, please visit the Dow Jones Web site.