Join Attorney Tom Li, as he speaks about the main legal issues he sees with new startups that want to be VC-backed, why setting up the correct legal structure for your startup is so important for both founders and investors and what institutional investors will ask for your startup’s first VC financing.

Tom Li is an associate at Troy Gould PC. His practice focuses on representing entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, and venture capital funds. He represents his clients in equity and debt financings, spinoffs, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. Tom’s helps companies and their founders from the beginning stages of forming a company, through successive rounds of venture financing, and eventually in their exit events. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law.

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Our guest speaker Marian Thomas shares her wisdom from over 20 years of experience in the tech world at the next meetup in our Virtual Tech on Tap Series.