Nutter is a full-service law firm based in Boston that provides legal services to emerging companies across various industries, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, software, hardware, information technology, cleantech, mobile, consumer products, analytics, new media, robotics, financial technology, and education technology. The firm's Emerging Companies Group has a dedicated team of lawyers with deep experience in areas impacting emerging companies such as licensing, distribution, e-business, venture capital, and strategic partnering. Nutter also has intellectual property lawyers who help emerging companies secure and defend patents, trademarks, and other rights essential to their future success.
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Over the past year, we’ve been inspired by the wisdom of our members and communities as they help us see, hear and experience how the real needs of the economy are being translated on the ground. We’ve seen that the deeper and broader our connectivity, the greater the opportunity we have to meet unmet needs and grow the real economy. We’ve also been inspired by our staff, mindful that it’s through our people that we’re able to translate our insights into impact. We’ve been getting stronger in terms of engaging our members and communities as well as our staff.
As a result, our membership is growing. We welcomed 21,997 new members to Vancity as of the end of September 2014, while holding market share in the overall deposit and lending markets – an impressive accomplishment given the competitive environment we’re facing. All this points to the fact that our brand is resonating, members are responding and our communities are reaping the benefits.
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You might be interested in getting your startup into an accelerator – and rest assured Boston has no shortage of options – but it’s hard to know exactly what the best options for your stage and industry are.
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Over the past year, we’ve been inspired by the wisdom of our members and communities as they help us see, hear and experience how the real needs of the economy are being translated on the ground. We’ve seen that the deeper and broader our connectivity, the greater the opportunity we have to meet unmet needs and grow the real economy. We’ve also been inspired by our staff, mindful that it’s through our people that we’re able to translate our insights into impact. We’ve been getting stronger in terms of engaging our members and communities as well as our staff.
As a result, our membership is growing. We welcomed 21,997 new members to Vancity as of the end of September 2014, while holding market share in the overall deposit and lending markets – an impressive accomplishment given the competitive environment we’re facing. All this points to the fact that our brand is resonating, members are responding and our communities are reaping the benefits.
Technology industry CEOs will gain fi rst-hand information from qualifi ed corporate and
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Enhance the overall business performance
Increase your company's revenue and net profits
Analyze latest market trends
Beat the competition
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Feasibility Study & Business Plan Development
Business Growth Analysis & Strategic Planning
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We originally created the 'OWN YOUR RAISE' Fellowship for Female Founders to solve some of the unique issues women founders face when it comes to raising money: lack of access to knowledge and investor networks and a need for greater confidence and executive leadership growth in scenarios where they are often the only woman in the room. But this program is now so much more: it's a safe space where Fellows can be inspired by and champion each other, connect and build on their leadership & fundraising strategy, and execute & celebrate their many milestones together.
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Key topics addressed include:
What’s the landscape of raising money for female founders?
What does raising capital mean for me and for my business?
Is my company ready to raise?
How much should I raise?
What’s the process and timeline of raising from angels/VCs?
How can I best prepare to raise my first outside capital?
How do I figure out and understand who the right investors are for my company?
How can I best align running my company and running a fundraising round?
What are the resources out there that can help me fundraise?
By attending this workshop, you will:
Understand what raising outside capital means for you and your business
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Learn about resources to help you fundraise
Get checklists and templates for planning and executing your raise
Get access to the slides & recording
Please note that this is a woman-only event. Use of “women” & “female” is inclusive of and welcomes trans women, nonbinary folks, and anyone who identifies with womxnhood in any way that is significant to them.
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In 2016 we created the Fellowship For Female Founders, a 6 month+ program to support women from the New England area looking for their 1st outside capital to get the support they deserve.
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In 2016 we created the Fellowship For Female Founders, a 6 month+ program to support women from the New England area looking for their 1st outside capital to get the support they deserve.
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The $2 trillion federal coronavirus relief package signed recently, officially known as the CARES Act, includes the nearly $350 Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic. The new loan program is designed to help small businesses with their payroll and other business operating expenses. The Small Business Administration (SBA) will forgive the portion of the loan proceeds that are used to cover the first eight weeks of payroll costs, rent, utilities, and mortgage interest.
The SBA and the Department of Treasury have released the information that will guide the programs. To help entrepreneurs better understand how can they benefit from the program, we created the webinar in partnership with the SBA, Cambridge Trust and the law firm Nutter to answer questions including:
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Nutter: Emerging Companies & Entrepreneurship
1. The Emerging Companies Group helps early stage companies realize value from innovation.
In today’s world, entrepreneurship is revolutionizing how people live, work and communicate.
Rapidly growing companies driving technological change require flexible and creative partners
to help optimize opportunities for success. Entrepreneurs and early stage investors rely
on Nutter to provide critical business perspective and legal advice to navigate the difficult
waters of starting high-growth businesses.
Nutter clearly understands the inherent risks for emerging companies, so our seasoned team
of attorneys brings clients the highest level of confidence as it provides the strategic legal
counsel, contacts and expertise that leads to success. Our business and intellectual property
lawyers are experienced on all sides of the complex issues that emerging companies are likely
to encounter.
Our business attorneys have deep knowledge in all areas impacting emerging companies
including licensing, distribution, e-business, venture capital, and strategic partnering. In
addition, our intellectual property lawyers provide the legal and scientific depth necessary to
secure and defend the patents, trademarks, and other rights that are essential to the future of
emerging companies, regardless of the technological sphere.
155 Seaport Blvd / Boston, MA 02210 / 617.439.2000 / nutter.com
EMERGING COMPANIES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
As a full service firm with a dedicated team of lawyers in the Emerging Companies Group, Nutter
supports ventures across the innovation economy:
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceuticals
• Life Sciences
• Software
• Hardware
• Information Technology
• Cleantech
• Mobile
• Consumer Products
• Analytics
• New Media
• Robotics
• Financial Technology
• Education Technology
As leaders in Boston’s innovation and startup community, our attorneys have a pulse on emerging
businesses through their involvement with a variety of organizations. Members of our team serve
on the Board of Directors and Partners Committee for The Capital Network, which provides
fundraising education for startups. Our attorneys also serve as mentors, guest speakers, and
judges for startup accelerators and early-stage investment firms including MassChallenge,
LearnLaunch, and GoldenSeeds, among others.
2. 155 Seaport Blvd / Boston, MA 02210 / 617.439.2000 / nutter.com
ABOUT NUTTER
Nutter is a Boston-based law firm that provides legal counsel to industry-leading companies, early
stage entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations, and families, across the country and around the world.
The firm’s lawyers are known for their client-centric approach and extensive experience in business and
finance, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, tax, and trusts
and estates. Founded in 1879, Nutter is dedicated to helping companies prosper in today’s competitive
business environment.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
• Advised Zagster, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of modern, flexible bike share services,
in securing $15 million in growth capital.
• Represented Kombrewcha (the first alcoholic Kombucha) in its sale to a strategic acquirer.
• Advised Wandering Bear Coffee, a cold brew coffee maker, in its recently completed
$8 million Series A equity round of financing.
• Represented McCarthy Capital, a private equity investment firm, when it led a recapitalization and
growth equity investment in Seven10 Storage Software, LLC to further accelerate growth.
• Advised Deep River Snacks, makers of premium better-for-you snacks based in Connecticut, in
its sale to Arca Continental, the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and parent
company of Wise Snacks, Bokados, and Inalecsa. Nutter had been long time general counsel to
Deep River Snacks, and had advised the company in its ongoing commercial dealings, intellectual
property matters, and its venture capital transactions.
• Represented Netra, Inc., a leader in Visual Intelligence and Search, when it closed $1.85 million in
Series Seed financing led by Launchpad Venture Group and NXT Ventures with participation from
Zelkova Ventures, Mark Cuban, Berwind LLC, and other prominent angels.
WILLIAM J. BERNAT
PARTNER
wbernat@nutter.com
JEREMY HALPERN
PARTNER
jhalpern@nutter.com
INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS
EMERGING COMPANIES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
We provide entrepreneurs with the full spectrum of support that they need to build their businesses
and realize their visions:
• Entity Formation
• Founders Agreements
• Financing Strategy and
Key Introductions
• Angel and Venture Capital
• Debt Financing
• Private Equity
• Initial Public Offerings
• Private Placements
• Strategic Partnering
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• IP Strategy
• Patent and Trademark
Strategy and Prosecution
• Employment Support
• Equity Compensation
• Tax Strategy
• Litigation
• Licensing
• Distribution
• Manufacturing
• Supply Agreements
• Electronic Commerce
3. We are a law firm where highly-seasoned attorneys bring service to you in a personal and
uncomplicated way. Our focus is on expertise, not legalese, and every part of our service
is designed to meet your individual needs while delivering the best possible outcome. This
is the Nutter Experience, and in a world where one law firm can seem like the next, we
believe that we truly stand out. We look forward to working with you.
155 Seaport Blvd / Boston, MA 02210 / 617.439.2000 / nutter.com
WELCOME TO NUTTER
WHY NUTTER
Clients tell us they choose Nutter so they can partner with lawyers who take a client-centric approach to
solving their complex legal challenges. Nutter is a nationally-ranked law firm that is just as interested in
your business as you are, and we accomplish this by remaining true to four guiding principles:
• Put integrity first by relentlessly upholding the highest standards at all times and at every
touchpoint with all attorneys
• Offer expertise across the board through an array of practice areas staffed with experienced
attorneys with proven success
• Provide clients with a personalized approach while being mindful of and most efficient with time,
ensuring high-value service delivery
• Dig deep to understand the context of a client’s business to better accommodate risk tolerance
and other nuances of potential outcomes
EXPERTISE THAT GETS NOTICED
Our commitment to building a culture of legal excellence has led to top industry accolades, including:
Chambers USA: America’s Leading
Lawyers for Business recognized Nutter
for excellence in providing legal services
to its clients in numerous practice areas.
The firm was selected as a state leader in
the categories of Banking & Finance:
Corporate & Regulatory, Environment, Labor
& Employment, Litigation, and Real Estate.
U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers
selected Nutter as a top national firm in
2018 “Best Law Firms” survey.
MARKET-LEADING CLIENTS AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
From our headquarters in Boston’s Innovation District, we represent global, national and regional
companies and organizations. Our roster of clients includes market-leading corporations and financial
institutions, research universities, emerging companies, investors, developers, foundations and families.
Our expertise resides across a broad range of industries, including:
• Banking and Financial Services
• Education and Nonprofits
• Emerging Companies
• Energy
• Food and Beverage
• Government Agencies and
Municipalities
• Health Care
• Life Sciences
• Manufacturing
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceuticals
• Philanthropy
• Private Equity and
Venture Capital
• Private Wealth
• Real Estate
• Retail and
Consumer Products
• Software
• Technology
4. 155 Seaport Blvd / Boston, MA 02210 / 617.439.2000 / nutter.com
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We strive to ensure that traditionally underrepresented groups work at every level of our firm, which has
gone a long way toward advancing our position to build an inclusive legal community, reflective of the
diverse populations that we all serve.
Nutter's efforts are led by its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, whose focus includes the following:
• Setting firm-wide expectations
for an inclusive culture
• Supporting recruitment and
retention efforts that focus on
traditionally underrepresented
groups
• Learning from and applying
best practices of other
institutions and industries
• Measuring the firm’s
successes and shortcomings
• Challenging the status quo
when necessary
• Communicating the firm’s
mission, the action it requires,
and the success it promises
Our current activities continue Nutter’s commitment to recruiting and retaining talented and qualified
people, regardless of race, gender, color, age, disability, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, national
origin, or marital or parental status.
COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY AND PRO BONO
At Nutter, we are committed to social justice and progressive social causes. We are proud to be a
founding member and challenge participant in the Pro Bono Institute’s Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge.
Law firms that become Signatories to the Challenge acknowledge their institutional, firm-wide
commitment to provide legal services to low income and disadvantaged individuals and families and
non-profit groups. Each year, Nutter proudly honors its commitment to spend three percent of the
firm’s paying client billable hours on pro bono work. Recent projects include our initiative with Dell EMC
to take on cases for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and our work with the Civil Appeals Clinic's Pro
Bono Program. Nutter attorneys also engage in a wide variety of civic, charitable, educational, social,
and political efforts in the communities in which they live and work. They hold leadership roles in scores
of non-profit organizations both locally and across the United States.
WELCOME TO NUTTER
A PROUD LEGACY
Nutter’s vision of professional excellence and dedicated
client service has guided the firm since its co-founding in
1879 by Louis D. Brandeis, who went on to become one
of the most influential justices to serve on the United
States Supreme Court. The legacy of Brandeis—his deep
commitment to clients, to pro bono service and the creation
of a just society—continues as a source of pride and
inspiration for us today.
5. www.nutter.com
Jeremy Halpern
Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Group; Co-Lead, Food and Beverage
Group
T 617.439.2943 F 617.310.9943 E jhalpern@nutter.com
155 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210
Practices
Corporate and Transactions
Emerging Companies
Venture Capital and Angel
Financing
Industries
Emerging Companies and
Entrepreneurship
Food and Beverage
Information and Technology
Life Sciences and Medical
Devices
Education
University of California, Los
Angeles, J.D.
University of California,
Berkeley, B.A., summa cum
laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
Massachusetts
California
Jeremy Halpern is a partner and co-chairs Nutter’s Emerging Companies Group.
Jeremy also co-leads the firm’s Food and Beverage group. Jeremy’s practice
focuses on emerging companies, private equity, venture capital and angel financing
transactions, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, executive and
team compensation matters, and general start-up support for high growth
companies in technology, life sciences, and the food and beverage industry.
Concurrently, Jeremy is a member of the board of The Capital Network, a Boston-
based nonprofit serving entrepreneurs seeking high growth capital, serves on the
Advisory Board and the Executive Education Committee of the MBI Health
Program, and on the Advisory Board of Pintley, a MassChallenge 2011 finalist
company providing marketing solutions to the craft brewers and bars, and The
Bowdoin Group, a premier executive recruitment firm. He continues to serve as a
mentor at MassChallenge and LearnLaunch, an expert advisor at the Innovation
Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and as a speaker, reviewer, judge, or
mentor for MIT HackingMedicine, HackingPediatrics, the Mass Tech Transfer
Center, the Mass Life Science Center, M2D2, BranchFood, Startup Institute, and
the UCLA/Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference.
Previously, Jeremy served as the Managing Director of Edible Ventures, an angel
group investing in food and beverage brands, and on the Board and Investment
Committee of MassVentures, an early stage venture capital fund geared toward
technology companies in Massachusetts. Jeremy taught entrepreneurial leadership
at Tufts University for nine years and co-founded a company in the mobile
technology synchronization space.
Bio information at:
LinkedIn
The Capital Network
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William J. Bernat
Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Group
T 617.439.2713 F 617.310.9713 E wbernat@nutter.com
155 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210
Practices
Commercial and Real Estate
Finance
Corporate and Transactions
Emerging Companies
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity
Venture Capital and Angel
Financing
Industries
Emerging Companies and
Entrepreneurship
Food and Beverage
Information and Technology
Life Sciences and Medical
Devices
Education
Suffolk University Law
School, J.D., magna cum
laude
Providence College, B.A.,
summa cum laude
Admissions
Massachusetts
William J. Bernat is a partner in Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department
and co-chairs the firm's Emerging Companies Group. He is a member of the firm’s
Commercial and Real Estate Finance practice group. Clients routinely rely on Will to
help them navigate through private equity, venture capital, and angel financing
transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending transactions,
and other corporate governance issues.
Tech, life sciences, consumer/retail, and food & beverage companies look to Will for
assistance throughout their entire lifespans, from initial planning and formation to
operations and exit, including formulating the strategy to realize their business goals
and to build the foundation necessary to secure third party investment. Investors in
emerging growth companies seek Will’s counsel when structuring their financing
transactions. Will has counseled clients in angel and venture backed financings
representing an aggregate of over $100 million in investment in local early stage
companies.
Banks and other financial institutions rely on Will’s expertise when structuring asset-
based and other commercial lending transactions with both emerging and
entrepreneurial companies and more mature borrowers. Will has guided both
lenders and borrowers through transactions representing aggregate commitments
in excess of $1 billion.
Notable Experience and Client Impact
General Corporate/Emerging Companies
■ Serve as transactional and corporate counsel to an artwork rental and rotation
startup on multiple financing rounds
■ Act as corporate counsel for a leading sunglasses producer in the United States,
including store-within-store partnerships
■ Play a key role in expanding the original fantasy sports-game retailer beyond
board-game enthusiasts to online and mobile users through joint ventures and
co-promotion arrangements with sports media outlets and developers
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■ Act as corporate and fundraising counsel for a bike sharing company that serves leading university and business
campuses, resorts, and residential communities
■ Serve as corporate and fundraising counsel to an all-natural snack food company, protein-based beer company,
and organic fitness beverage company
■ Advise a nationally recognized full-service mobile app development company in multiple transactions
M&A
■ Advise on $40 million joint venture between a photoelectric sheeting company and a commercial solar panel
producer
■ Represent a co-working space provider, including multiple partnerships and joint ventures with a national retailer
■ Advise on the sale of a privately-held wide format digital printing company to a strategic buyer
■ Provide counsel on the acquisition of a medical device coating and surface treatment business by a private
biomedical company for a combination of cash and equity
■ Advise on the acquisition of a UK-based asset management risk model business by a privately-held strategic
buyer
■ Advise on the sale of a venture-backed digital photography asset management software company to a privately-
held strategic buyer
■ Provide counsel on the sale of a dietary supplement and pharmaceuticals business to a privately-held strategic
buyer
■ Advise on the sale of an educational research, marketing, and branding business to a publicly traded media and
marketing company
■ Advise on the acquisition of Golf Digest-rated “Best Places to Play” golf course on Cape Cod by private buyers
Commercial Finance
■ Represent syndicate of five of the largest U.S. banks in connection with $500+ million loan facility to diversified
real estate investment/CMBS, multi-family mortgage and LIHTC syndication company
A leader in Boston’s innovation and startup community, Will serves on the partners’ committee of, and is a frequent
lecturer and panel member at, The Capital Network, a nonprofit organization that brings together Boston’s largest
active community of investors and startup experts to provide practical, hands-on education and personalized
mentoring to young entrepreneurs to help them navigate the fundraising process. In addition, Will serves as a mentor
and holds regular office hours at MassChallenge, a startup accelerator, and Golden Seeds, one of the nation’s most
active early-stage investment firms.
Will frequently serves as a lecturer and guest speaker at the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Babson Entrepreneurship
Forum, and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, where he presents on topics such as the fundamentals of
term sheets and capitalization tables, and general corporate finance and formation issues.
William J. Bernat