MintzTech Connect Industry News — April 2020

By Daniel I. DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron

Dear Readers, 

We hope everyone is safe, healthy, and finding a comfortable place to work from while we ride out this “storm.” We also want to give a special shout out to all our health care workers and first responders who have stepped up and shown incredible dedication, professionalism, and bravery in the midst of all this mayhem and chaos.

While one can never predict a “black swan” event, we have clearly been experiencing one in the last several weeks with the global pandemic. Further, this pandemic has ushered in a new paradigm that has major implications, both with respect to the short-term effect on our economy and businesses, but also just as importantly, on the long-term effect on our economy and how businesses will be conducted in the future. The question now on everyone’s mind is where do we go from here in an era with so many unknowns and very little verifiable data regarding the pandemic.

We are hugely skeptical of any pundit who claims to know what the economic future portends. As John Maynard Keynes once sarcastically said: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” That said, we do know that there are always opportunities in periods of dislocations for creative and smart entrepreneurs. We have already seen with a number of our clients aggressive moves to create and accelerate the use of platforms that excel for remote work environments such as telehealth. We can also report that we see robust activity in emerging life science companies and enterprises focused on our changing energy needs. We have no doubt that many of these companies will change our world for the better.

While the pace of business activity has definitely slackened in the short term, we are in fact seeing transactions closing and people pulling together to find ways to move businesses forward. Moreover, we are seeing entrepreneurs continuing to develop businesses that have the potential to be disruptive and significant. While we at Mintz are also working remotely during this current “pause” we remain ready and available to “give flight to your ideas!”

This edition of MintzTech Connect includes (i) a recent post on the Federal Reserve’s Main Street Lending Program; (ii) an excellent summary of Choice of Business Entity: Pros and Cons of Corporations and LLCs; and (iii) a recent podcast on FDA issues for start-ups.

As always, we welcome your questions and inquiries. Be sure to visit our website for emerging companies @ mintzedge.com, and please sign up here to receive email alerts when new articles are posted to MintzEdge.

Stay safe and be well,
Dan + Sam

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    MintzTech Connect Industry News — January 2020

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    Daniel I. DeWolf

    Member / Chair, Technology Practice; Co-chair, Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice

    Daniel I. DeWolf is an authority on growth companies and serves as Chair of Mintz's Technology Practice Group and Co-chair of the firm’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice. He has worked on pioneering online capital-raising methods. He also teaches venture capital law at NYU Law School.

    Samuel Asher Effron

    Member / Co-chair, Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice

    Samuel Asher Effron assists Mintz clients with venture capital and private equity transactions, helping start-ups with legal and business matters. He has clients in a variety of technology sectors, including video gaming, music, virtual and augmented reality, and consumer electronics.