PeopleMichael Best’s Venture Best® team has a wealth of entrepreneurship and risk capital investing legal expertise available to clients across the nation. The Venture Best® team includes professionals who have “been there, done that” themselves, as venture-backed entrepreneurs as well as angel and venture capital investors. Due to this background, our Venture Best professionals bring value added insights to our clients’ opportunities and challenges, rooted in our diverse experiences on both sides of the counselor/client table. We think of ourselves not so much as legal advisors, but as business partners with our clients. Our Team Preview Attorney's BiographyStephen helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their companies, from planning at the earliest stages to funding to growth and scale-up. He provides practical advice along every step of the way, counseling clients on key transactional and business matters including entity formation, corporate governance, private equity and venture capital investments, contracts and agreements, brand protection, acquisitions and divestures, employment issues including immigration, and when needed, dispute resolution.  Preview Attorney's BiographyCarrie guides employers at all stages of their lifecycles through the development, implementation, and management of compensation and benefits strategies. She focuses her practice exclusively on employee benefits and executive compensation law (and the enmeshed labor and tax considerations). Carrie is a trusted advisor to clients, helping them ensure they adopt the right plans for their workforce as well as their shareholders and members.  Preview Attorney's BiographyDavid (DC) counsels growth-stage companies and investment entities on structuring, restructuring, and governance.  Preview Attorney's BiographyJustin helps clients secure protection for their intellectual property assets, and then works to enforce and defend those rights.  Preview Attorney's BiographyDave is a Colorado native, and a skilled entrepreneurial-minded attorney who assists start-up and early-stage companies with all of their business needs.  Preview Attorney's BiographyKnown for giving practical and actionable legal advice, Adrienne counsels Venture Best clients on the complex aspects of privacy and data management matters.  Preview Attorney's BiographyJosh provides Venture Best clients with guidance on all aspects of corporate law, including company formation, financing, federal and state securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and outside general counsel services. Josh began his legal career in Silicon Valley, where he represented emerging growth companies and their investors from start-ups to public companies. He returned to his Utah home and spent several years in house advising a Fortune 500 company on securities law compliance, corporate governance, and disclosure. Josh’s broad experience working with companies throughout their life cycle enables him to be a strategic advisor to entrepreneurial teams.  Preview Attorney's BiographyDan solves legal and business problems for Venture Best clients throughout their lifecycles, from helping entrepreneurs refine early-but-visionary ideas into fundable business plans to executing successful exit transactions.  Preview Attorney's BiographyClients turn to Lisa for practical, strategic counsel on matters including transactions, strategic opportunities, strategy implementation, and corporate compliance issues.  Preview Attorney's BiographyNic is a former venture-backed entrepreneur, with a deep understanding of both the business and legal aspects of forming, growing, and exiting a business.  Preview Attorney's BiographyBrad’s clients include innovative start-ups and high-growth companies, and the venture funds and angels who invest in them.  Preview Attorney's BiographyPaul is a past chair of Venture Best as well as a serial venture capital-backed entrepreneur and institutional venture capital investor.  Preview Attorney's BiographyA co-founder of Venture Best®, Greg represents emerging, growth-stage, and venture-backed companies and investors in corporate structuring, financing, and exit strategies. Preview Attorney's BiographyGalen represents companies, founders, management, and investors in entrepreneurial endeavors – many of which involve building enterprises that have never before been built. He works with clients across the country, involved in all manner of go-to-market strategies – B2B, B2C, marketplace, SaaS, manufacturing, and distribution – and across numerous industries. From the start of each engagement, Galen’s focus is on protecting and building an enterprise for a successful exit.  Preview Attorney's BiographyVenture Best clients look to Vince for creative solutions and practical strategies to help their businesses succeed.  Preview Attorney's BiographyAaron helps Venture Best clients leverage their innovations to spur further development and achieve strategic growth.  Preview Attorney's BiographyLaunching a brand, product, or design without the right intellectual property protection is a bit like skydiving without a parachute. Jolly is your parachute.  Preview Attorney's BiographyJeff provides strategic counsel to start-up and emerging businesses seeking to protect and commercialize their inventions and other IP assets.  Preview Attorney's BiographyFor more than 30 years, Rick has served as counsel and trusted advisor to hundreds of innovators, executives, investors, and their businesses, helping them launch, grow, and transition their companies. During his career he has worked as an attorney in private practice and in-house, and has served as a corporate officer for multiple entities, including a role at Union Pacific’s technology incubator.  Preview Attorney's BiographyClients have described Lyndon as “a businessman who is also a lawyer.” For 37 years, he has served small and large businesses, personally handling many business issues and then selecting and quarterbacking a team that handles all other issues that businesses face.  Preview Attorney's BiographyElizabeth is a business lawyer and technology-specific privacy counselor for a variety of start-ups and emerging companies in Austin’s bustling entrepreneurial community.  Preview Attorney's BiographyBecky focuses her practice in corporate and transactional law with an emphasis on start-ups and early-growth companies, social enterprise, and impact investing funds.  Preview Attorney's BiographyAn entrepreneur at heart and in trade, Shawn works with start-ups, privately held businesses, business owners, investors, and investment funds, focusing on business planning, forming, funding, and mergers and acquisitions. Shawn Stigler Managing Partner, Broomfield OfficeCo-Chair, Venture Best® & Co-Leader, Cannabis  Preview Attorney's BiographyStart-ups and established businesses alike turn to Erika for sound advice on a variety of corporate law matters, tapping into her experience in areas such as securities, capital markets, financing, real estate, and international issues.  Preview Attorney's BiographyMelissa is the Co-Chair of Venture Best and fearlessly leads the team in working with entrepreneurs across the country.  Preview Attorney's BiographyIt takes one to know one. Drew is particularly skilled in helping entrepreneurs and their investors navigate corporate and transactional legal matters because he has been in their shoes.  Preview Attorney's BiographyShari is an accomplished attorney, entrepreneur, and ecosystem innovator. She provides clients with seasoned advice and taps into her extensive network to connect innovators with the expertise, mentorship, and resources needed for success.  Preview Attorney's BiographyArimi works with both start-up companies and investors in the U.S. and Japan, helping them navigate legal issues and pursue business opportunities in new markets. She leverages her strong network of contacts to help Venture Best clients grow their companies around the world.
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