Winstead’s Emerging Growth & Venture Capital team represents founders, entrepreneurs, startups, and emerging-growth companies, as well as angel investors, venture capitalists, private equity funds, and other institutional investors.  Our team has deep experience in focus areas including equity & venture financings, convertible debt financings, commercial transactions, consulting and professional services agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, intellectual property protection, technology commercialization and licensing, privacy and cybersecurity, employment benefits and executive compensation, mergers & acquisitions, asset sales, and other exit transactions.

Winstead advises clients on entity formation and capital structure, ongoing corporate governance and stakeholder issues, and tax and employment matters.

We represent companies throughout their lifecycles across a broad range of industry sectors, including:

• Life sciences
• Consumer goods
• Food & beverage
• Financial services and Fintech
• Medical devices
• Ecommerce, SaaS and software
• Artificial intelligence
• Housing and hospitality