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Overview
Founded in 1848, Michael Best has earned its reputation as a leading Midwestern law firm. The firm has more than 240 attorneys in Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha and Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and Chicago, Illinois. The firm provides a full range of legal services to clients on a local, regional, national and global basis in areas including: general corporate, health care, energy & sustainability, labor & employment, land & resources (environmental and real estate), litigation, tax, and wealth planning services.
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Legal
Venture Best ™ - Venture-backed businesses mark the intersection of growing companies, individual investors, venture and private equity funds, and investment bankers that turn promise into progress. Michael Best & Friedrich LLP effectively guides clients at this intersection to maximize their returns and efficiently close transactions.
Providing services to emerging and high-growth companies and the angel investors and venture capitalists that fund them, our Venture Capital practice group, Venture Best, recognizes entrepreneurial companies need sophisticated legal support, capital, and other resources to succeed and thrive. Our in-depth understanding of the needs of entrepreneurs and investors alike allows Venture Best to bring to our clients flexible, yet exceptional service and knowledge.
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Financing- Equity:
Corporate finance and securities matters must be handled with the utmost discipline and care to ensure cost-effective completion and regulatory compliance. Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has an extensive corporate finance and securities practice, representing both issuers and underwriters in private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities.
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Intellectual Property
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has long been committed to the pursuit and protection of our clients’ intellectual property rights. With more than 100 members and over a century of successes, our IP Practice Group is one of the firm’s largest and one recognized nationwide for providing exceptional guidance and representation to IP clients.
In addition to impressive legal credentials, many of our attorneys and engineers have extensive backgrounds and advanced degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry, e-commerce and information technology, food science, biotechnology, biology, and medical technologies. In addition, many of our lawyers have worked for major corporations and as government examiners in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, giving them a valuable perspective on our clients’ IP issues.
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Licensing Technology
With the globalization of brands and increased marketing and selling of products and services via the Internet come greater opportunities for trademark and character licensing and merchandising. Licensing enables a company to expand the reach of its brands into new geographic markets or new product lines without large capital expenditures. Michael Best’s trademark lawyers counsel clients on strategies to maximize the value of their properties through licensing and negotiate and draft trademark license agreements.
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Venture Capital
Venture-backed businesses mark the intersection of growing companies, individual investors, venture and private equity funds, and investment bankers that turn promise into progress. Michael Best & Friedrich LLP effectively guides clients at this intersection to maximize their returns and efficiently close transactions.
Michael Best represents both investors and companies with their investment capital needs in high-growth companies. Michael Best’s Venture BestSM Practice Group represents a substantial number of start-up and emerging companies in biotechnology, information technology and software, medical device, electronics, and other high-technology sectors. This emerging company practice allows Michael Best to introduce venture capital and private equity investors to early- and mid-stage investment opportunities. This benefits both our company clients and those investors who work with us.
We also represent numerous investors in various aspects of their fund formation and investment activities. We work with these funds on corporate structure, governance and control, and with regard to the development and growth of their investments. In addition to and following fund formation, we continue to add value throughout the life of the fund as it makes its portfolio company investments.
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