Venture Law & Finance - PART II

Due date: 20 March 2015

Email: tls.businesslaw@gmail.com

Legal Advice to Your Client

(Memorandum 5-10 pages)

QUESTIONS?
How can we distinguish the 20 percent or so venture
capital firms that Khosla cites that actually add value to
their portfolio companies from the wide majority of firms
that continue to occupy the venture capital space?
Should Bruno accept corporate venture capital?
Would you recommend Bruno to go public, pursue a
trade sale or remain private in the future?

Literature
Brian Park and Erik P.M. Vermeulen, We Know the Saviour and It Is Them:
The Future Face(s) of Venture Capital, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2564040
Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Recasting Private Equity after
the Financial Crisis: The End of Two and Twenty and the Emergence of
Co-Investment and Separate Account Arrangements,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351816
Janke Dittmer, Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P.M. Vermeulen, The New
Venture Capital Cycle and the Role of Governments: The Emergence of
Collaborative Funding Models and Platforms,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2357771

Literature
Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital Beyond the
Financial Crisis: How Corporate Venturing Boosts New Entrepreneurial
Clusters (and Assists Governments in Their Innovation Efforts),
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1617585

Jose Miguel Mendoza and Erik P.M. Vermeulen, The 'New' Venture Capital
Cycle (Part I): The Importance of Private Secondary Market Liquidity,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1829835

Erik P.M. Vermeulen, New Metrics in Corporate Governance: Shifting

Strategies of Activist Investors in an Ageing IPO Market.