The Emerging Business and Technology Team of Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP is comprised of attorneys from several different practice groups that focus a substantial portion of their practice on representing emerging business. By "emerging businesses," we mean any business that has the potential for rapid growth in a large or expanding market. Many of our emerging business clients operate in the IT, telecommunications, software and biotech/healthcare industries, but many others operate in low-tech or no-tech industries such as manufacturing and service companies.

Our team has extensive experience in representing emerging businesses throughout all stages of their life cycles, from start-up to liquidity events, including:

• selection and formation of the appropriate business entity
• raising capital to finance the business, including angel investments, venture capital, CAPCO and other private equity investments, and initial public offerings
• intellectual property matters, including patents, copyrights, trade names and trade marks and developing an overall intellectual property strategy
• implementing stock option and other employee incentive plans
• preparing employment, consulting, confidentiality and proprietary information agreements
• preparing reseller, product development, software development, licensing, website development and other strategic agreements
• regulatory compliance, at the local, state, federal and international levels
• merger and acquisition transactions
• labor and employment matters
• governmental affairs
• state, federal and international taxation

In addition to the foregoing traditional legal services, we leverage the relationships that we have developed over more than a century of experience to help our emerging businesses grow.