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Welcome to the Walker Corporate Law Group newsletter, which we email to our clients and friends every few months to share recent firm and industry highlights. If you prefer not to receive our newsletter, you can unsubscribe below. Happy New Year!
Cheers, Scott
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| Walker Corporate Law News |
Glenn Schoenfeld Joins NYC Office
I’m very excited to announce that Glenn Schoenfeld has joined our New York office. Glenn has 14+ years of broad corporate law experience, including 7+ years at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and 4+ years at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. Glenn received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Baltimore and his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.
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New Clients
We’ve recently been engaged by a number of exciting companies, including (in alphabetical order): 9GAG, Best PC Fixit, Club Rider, Continuum Analytics, CouponPal, FIDOO, GoAnimate, Healthfinch, Moto Message, OBD, refine.io, The Grizzly Labs and TrainSignal.
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New Sponsorship
We just launched a new partnership with This Week in Startups, a very popular video podcast hosted by uber-entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo, ThisWeekIn.com, Weblogs and Launch. We are indeed proud to be a sponsor and to support independent media.
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New Book
I am pleased to announce that I just published my first book, "Beyond the Blog: The Startup Law Playbook," which you can purchase on Amazon. I also continue to write blog posts for VentureBeat, The Huffington Post and Forbes.
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We are excited to be working with inClass, a San Francisco-based startup that has created an extraordinary iPhone app (over one million downloads) to help college students (i) keep track of their courses and homework and (ii) take notes more efficiently. The company was founded by Emerson Malca, an impressive young entrepreneur, who is the CEO and lead iOS developer.
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House Passes Crowdfunding Bill
On November 3rd, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2930 (the "Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act"), a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter (read more). Unfortunately, the bill is now stalled in the Senate (read more).
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Zynga Goes Public
On December 15th, Zynga launched its initial public offering raising $1 billion and valuing the company at $7 billion; it sold about 14% of its outstanding shares in the offering (a larger float than for some of the other major tech deals this past year, including LinkedIn and Groupon). "Founded in 2007, Zynga has emerged as the shining example of Gaming 2.0." read more »
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Tech Incubators Proliferate
Over the past few months, the number of tech incubators has skyrocketed, providing fresh evidence that we may be in the midst of a tech bubble akin to 1999. Indeed, in just Los Angeles alone, the following incubators were recently launched: Amplify, MuckerLab, upStart.LA, Science and Start Engine. read more »
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