Dunn Carney’s interdisciplinary approach—which encompasses extensive expertise in areas such as corporate governance, corporate structure, intellectual property, employment, tax, real estate, finance, and M&A—enables our team to serve as a strategic advisor to our client throughout each stage of client’s growth.

We provide practical and comprehensive advice to a broad range of businesses that are forming, financing, hiring, creating innovations, as well as resolving disputes that may arise along the way. We bring a combination of in-depth legal knowledge and entrepreneurial thinking to assist clients in navigating a client’s life cycle from startup through an exit transactions.

Our Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Expertise


We advise startup and emerging companies across diverse industries on:

  • entity selection and formation
  • seed and early state financing
  • employment and independent contractor issues
  • licensing transactions
  • trademarks
  • private placements
  • dispute resolution and litigation
  • acquisitions
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • tax efficiency
  • executive compensation and employee benefits
  • joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • corporate governance
  • real estate lease
  • financing


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