LAW 6654

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LAW 6654
Negotiating Your Series A: Legal Aspects of Early Stage Venture Funding

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course will conduct a detailed examination of the key aspects of a venture-backed Series A funding round, including the business and legal relationships and interactions between founders, board members, and investors in considering and negotiating the key documents/provisions of the Series A funding round. The faculty will use their experiences representing startups, investors and other key stakeholders in both internal and outside counsel roles to review real-world examples and illustrate the various perspectives of the key parties and their respective negotiation strategies on critical points.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: LAW 6470; NBAY 5300 or NBAY 5301; LAW 6131.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 12476 LAW 6654   LEC 001

    • T
    • Mar 12 - May 6, 2025

    • Levy, S

      Ross, S

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 19846 LAW 6654   LEC 030

    • T
    • Mar 12 - May 6, 2025

    • Levy, S

      Ross, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Cornell Tech Master of Laws (LLM) and visiting Juris Doctor (JD) students.

    Department Consent Required (Add)