Emerging Companies
Contact: Anthony P. Gangemi, Co-Chair
Emerging Companies Update:
- Listen to Dave Menard on the CTStartup Podcast!
- Entrepreneur Initiative and Trusted Advisor packages
The Emerging Companies Practice Group at Murtha Cullina LLP offers legal counsel and strategic business planning to companies through all stages of their lifecycle: from the concept phase through development and growth periods, and through exit strategies, including sale events. This group is dedicated to advising and mentoring emerging companies through our collaborative efforts with the local and nationwide entrepreneur and social enterprise communities.
The primary goal of the Emerging Companies Practice Group is to build a supportive community around entrepreneurship. For areas that may be underserved, we provide, and assist others in providing, resources of all types to entrepreneurs. We want entrepreneurs to take their ideas and companies further, faster and with greater precision and insight than they may find on their own. Toward this end, Murtha Cullina has cultivated a dynamic and comprehensive network that gives clients access to industry professionals who help entrepreneurs take their businesses forward.
Murtha Cullina has strong local relationships with community co-working spaces and entrepreneur centers including ReSET (Hartford). Murtha Cullina’s entrepreneur attorneys mentor innovators on a daily basis and at events such as the Innovation Summit, University of Connecticut's Innovation Quest, as well as in connection with local accelerator programs.
As part of Murtha Cullina's commitment to the entrepreneurial community, the Emerging Companies Practice Group developed the Business Lunch Series (BLS). The BLS is presented each month from January through June. The team of experts who regularly speak at the BLS seminars have proved to be of enormous value to emerging companies - just one of the ways Murtha Cullina provides 'out of the box' resources, including networking, learning and growth opportunities, as a means to support innovative ideas and new business growth.
The Emerging Companies Practice Group understands the distinctive circumstances of entrepreneurs and strives to provide efficient and cost effective solutions to help new companies succeed. As part of an entrepreneurship initiative, Murtha Cullina offers specialized, flat-rate packages of legal services tailored to the needs and resources of emerging companies, with distinct packages for businesses that have yet to form a legal entity and those who are in need of post-formation legal services and counsel.
The Emerging Companies Practice Group believes regular and ongoing communication with its emerging company clients is essential, as it allows the company to receive the best possible advice from attorneys who are closely familiar with the company, its people and its business. As a result, our entrepreneur packages each include all basic communication, whether by phone, email or other format, in the cost.
Services provided by the Emerging Companies Practice Group include:
- Formation
- Stockholder, Operating and Partnership Agreements
- Commercial Agreements
- Trademark, Copyright and IP Protection
- Venture Capital
- Investor Representation
- Equity and Debt Financing
- Equity and Alternative Compensation Arrangements
- Licensing
- Growth and Exit Strategies: Mergers, Acquisitions, ESOPs and Generational Transfers
- Murtha Addresses Coronavirus/COVID-19
- August 10, 2021 - Vincent R. Merola Joins Murtha Cullina LLP Business and Finance Department
- June 22, 2021 - Robert F. Lynch, Jr. Joins Business and Finance Department
- September 17, 2020 - David A. Menard Named Chair of Business and Finance Department
- November 1, 2018 - Innovation Destination Hartford: Connecticut Mentor Encourages Entrepreneurship
- September 7, 2018 - Murtha Cullina Law Lab at District New Haven Brings Innovation to Front of Connecticut Legal Landscape
- March 2, 2017 - Entrepreneur Group News: Top 12 Cities To Launch Your Tech Startup
- July 22, 2016 - David A. Menard quoted in the article "Panel: Business funding requires more than an idea"
- June 13, 2016 - David Menard was quoted in the Hartford Business Journal article “Advocates aim to broaden benefit corporation law.”
- April 26, 2016 - Firm Expands Intellectual Property Practice Group
- August 11, 2015 - David A. Menard Quoted in UConn's School of Business Newsletter on Mentoring Student Entrepreneurs
- June 15, 2015 - David A. Menard Quoted in Hartford Business Journal Article on Social Entrepreneurship in Connecticut
- May 28, 2015 - David A. Menard and James W. McLaughlin Co-Create and Co-Host the CTStartup Podcast for Entrepreneurs
- March 2, 2015 - Entrepreneur Group Will Become Strategic Sponsor of reSET To Develop Social Enterprise in Connecticut
- February 25, 2015 - Entrepreneur Practice Group Offering Free Legal Consultations for Entrepreneurs and Startup Companies
- November 6, 2014 - Murtha Cullina LLP Participates in Prototype Beta Test for Local Startup Company
- September 15, 2014 - David A. Menard quoted in the Hartford Business Journal
- March 30, 2021 - Equity Financing for Startups and Entrepreneurs Webinar Recording
- February 24, 2021 - Emerging Companies Group Webinar Recording: Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- June 27, 2019 - The Drive Cowork and Murtha Cullina Law Lab Present Pitch Night
- May 24, 2016 - Jennifer Corvo featured on the CT Startup Podcast: Hiring employees and what that means for your startup
- Andy Corea to Speak at the Connecticut Bar Foundation's 10th Annual Attorneys of Color Symposium
- April 1, 2022 - Dave Menard Presenting "Legal Considerations for Business Funding" at the CT Entrepreneur Awards
- September 21, 2021 - Elizabeth Galletta Presenting "Introduction to Intellectual Property" MEWS+Incubator, Middlesex Chamber of Commerce
- March 30, 2021 - Business Lunch Series Webinar: Equity Financing
- February 24, 2021 - Business Lunch Series Webinar: Legal Basics 101 for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- November 5, 2020 - Business Lunch Webinar: What The Pandemic has Taught Us About Contractual Relationships and other Contract Caveats
- October 13, 2020 - Business Lunch Webinar: Legal Basics 101 for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- July 15, 2020 - Emerging Companies Group Webinar: When Debt is Good and Equity Isn't: Finding the Balance
- April 2, 2020 - POSTPONED - Community Pitch Challenge
- March 19, 2020 - POSTPONED - Spring Pitch Slam at District New Haven
- March 10, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: Equity Financing for Small Businesses
- February 20, 2020 - Law Lab Business Lunch Seminar: How to Incentivize Employees
- February 11, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: How To Incentivize Employees
- January 23, 2020 - Law Lab Business Lunch Seminar: Legal Basics 101
- January 14, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: Legal Basics 101
- November 21, 2019 - Flight Night: Audience Choice Awards
- November 20, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Web Privacy and Personal Data Protection for Small Businesses
- November 12, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Web Privacy and Personal Data Protection for Small Businesses
- October 23, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Litigation 101
- October 16, 2019 - Fall Pitch Slam at Law Lab
- October 15, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Litigation 101
- September 25, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: When To Call Your Intellectual Property Attorney
- September 19, 2019 - Flight Night: Pitch Event
- September 17, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: When To Call Your Intellectual Property Attorney
- June 18, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Employment Law 101 - What You Need to Know for Your Small Business
- June 5, 2019 - Summer Pitch Slam at District New Haven
- May 21, 2019 - Elizabeth Galletta Presenting "IP Law for Startups" at reSET
- May 15, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Reading & Understanding Patent Documents
- April 24, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Immigration Issues 101 for Startups and Small Businesses
- April 16, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Equity Financing
- April 9, 2019 - Flight Night: Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- February 20, 2019 - Law Lab Lunch Series: Equity Financing
- November 28, 2018 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Privacy Policies For Your Website
- November 7, 2018 - Flight Night: Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- October 17, 2018 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Legal Basics 101
- May 9, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Tax-Exempt Organizations 101
- April 11, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Investments Legal 101
- March 14, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Welcome to the World of Contracts
- February 14, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: What a CEO Needs to Know about Legal Issues in a Startup
- November 7, 2017 - Flight Night! Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- July 20, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 3: Marketing for Startups
- July 13, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 2: Startup Financing
- July 6, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 1: Legal Basics For Entrepreneurs
- May 23, 2017 - Business Lunch Series for Entrepreneurs: Compensating Employees, Contractors & Volunteers
- April 21, 2017 - David Menard to moderate Investor Roundtable: Funding & Investing in B-Corps at the Yale School of Management
- April 5, 2017 - Flight Night! Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- March 8, 2017 - Business Lunch Series: Equity Essentials for Entrepreneurs
- February 15, 2017 - Business Lunch Series: Legal Learnings for Startups
- December 1, 2016 - Flight Night: A Pitch Event for Start Ups and Entrepreneurs
- July 21, 2016 - David Menard will be a panelist at "Innovation Connection! Entrepreneurship & Capital - Where's the Money?," in Stamford, CT.
- June 15, 2016 - Business Lunch Series: Reading and Understanding Patent Documents
- May 18, 2016 - David Menard, Anthony Gangemi and Meredith Burns to present at UConn iQ InQbator Workshop #2 in Storrs, CT
- April 19 & 20, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: Employment Law for Entrepreneurs
- March 24, 2016 - Flight Night: An Open Pitch Forum for CT Start-Ups That are Building Businesses
- March 15 & 16, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: "Making it Rain" - Funding Opportunities from the DECD and CEDF
- February 16 & 17, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: How to Avoid Being Hit By A Bus - Risk Management for Entrepreneurs
- January 19 & 20, 2016 - The Business Breakfast Series: Equity Crowdfunding - The Financing “Flash Mob”
- November 19, 2015 - Flight Night: An Open Pitch Forum for CT Start-Ups That are Building Businesses
- June 16 & 17, 2015 - Business Breakfast Series: Financial Traps for Entrepreneurs and Ways to Avoid Them
- May 12 & 13, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Equity Compensation, Giving a Share of the Business to Employees
- April 14 & 15, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Creating Financial Projections for a New or Small Company
- March 17 & 18, 2015- The Business Breakfast Series: Alternative Financing Methods
- March 5, 2015 - Flight Night: Connecticut's start-up pitch event
- February 17 & 18, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Employment Law for Entrepreneurs
Contact: Anthony P. Gangemi, Co-Chair
Emerging Companies Update:
- Listen to Dave Menard on the CTStartup Podcast!
- Entrepreneur Initiative and Trusted Advisor packages
The Emerging Companies Practice Group at Murtha Cullina LLP offers legal counsel and strategic business planning to companies through all stages of their lifecycle: from the concept phase through development and growth periods, and through exit strategies, including sale events. This group is dedicated to advising and mentoring emerging companies through our collaborative efforts with the local and nationwide entrepreneur and social enterprise communities.
The primary goal of the Emerging Companies Practice Group is to build a supportive community around entrepreneurship. For areas that may be underserved, we provide, and assist others in providing, resources of all types to entrepreneurs. We want entrepreneurs to take their ideas and companies further, faster and with greater precision and insight than they may find on their own. Toward this end, Murtha Cullina has cultivated a dynamic and comprehensive network that gives clients access to industry professionals who help entrepreneurs take their businesses forward.
Murtha Cullina has strong local relationships with community co-working spaces and entrepreneur centers including ReSET (Hartford). Murtha Cullina’s entrepreneur attorneys mentor innovators on a daily basis and at events such as the Innovation Summit, University of Connecticut's Innovation Quest, as well as in connection with local accelerator programs.
As part of Murtha Cullina's commitment to the entrepreneurial community, the Emerging Companies Practice Group developed the Business Lunch Series (BLS). The BLS is presented each month from January through June. The team of experts who regularly speak at the BLS seminars have proved to be of enormous value to emerging companies - just one of the ways Murtha Cullina provides 'out of the box' resources, including networking, learning and growth opportunities, as a means to support innovative ideas and new business growth.
The Emerging Companies Practice Group understands the distinctive circumstances of entrepreneurs and strives to provide efficient and cost effective solutions to help new companies succeed. As part of an entrepreneurship initiative, Murtha Cullina offers specialized, flat-rate packages of legal services tailored to the needs and resources of emerging companies, with distinct packages for businesses that have yet to form a legal entity and those who are in need of post-formation legal services and counsel.
The Emerging Companies Practice Group believes regular and ongoing communication with its emerging company clients is essential, as it allows the company to receive the best possible advice from attorneys who are closely familiar with the company, its people and its business. As a result, our entrepreneur packages each include all basic communication, whether by phone, email or other format, in the cost.
Services provided by the Emerging Companies Practice Group include:
- Formation
- Stockholder, Operating and Partnership Agreements
- Commercial Agreements
- Trademark, Copyright and IP Protection
- Venture Capital
- Investor Representation
- Equity and Debt Financing
- Equity and Alternative Compensation Arrangements
- Licensing
- Growth and Exit Strategies: Mergers, Acquisitions, ESOPs and Generational Transfers
- Murtha Addresses Coronavirus/COVID-19
- August 10, 2021 - Vincent R. Merola Joins Murtha Cullina LLP Business and Finance Department
- June 22, 2021 - Robert F. Lynch, Jr. Joins Business and Finance Department
- September 17, 2020 - David A. Menard Named Chair of Business and Finance Department
- November 1, 2018 - Innovation Destination Hartford: Connecticut Mentor Encourages Entrepreneurship
- September 7, 2018 - Murtha Cullina Law Lab at District New Haven Brings Innovation to Front of Connecticut Legal Landscape
- March 2, 2017 - Entrepreneur Group News: Top 12 Cities To Launch Your Tech Startup
- July 22, 2016 - David A. Menard quoted in the article "Panel: Business funding requires more than an idea"
- June 13, 2016 - David Menard was quoted in the Hartford Business Journal article “Advocates aim to broaden benefit corporation law.”
- April 26, 2016 - Firm Expands Intellectual Property Practice Group
- August 11, 2015 - David A. Menard Quoted in UConn's School of Business Newsletter on Mentoring Student Entrepreneurs
- June 15, 2015 - David A. Menard Quoted in Hartford Business Journal Article on Social Entrepreneurship in Connecticut
- May 28, 2015 - David A. Menard and James W. McLaughlin Co-Create and Co-Host the CTStartup Podcast for Entrepreneurs
- March 2, 2015 - Entrepreneur Group Will Become Strategic Sponsor of reSET To Develop Social Enterprise in Connecticut
- February 25, 2015 - Entrepreneur Practice Group Offering Free Legal Consultations for Entrepreneurs and Startup Companies
- November 6, 2014 - Murtha Cullina LLP Participates in Prototype Beta Test for Local Startup Company
- September 15, 2014 - David A. Menard quoted in the Hartford Business Journal
- March 30, 2021 - Equity Financing for Startups and Entrepreneurs Webinar Recording
- February 24, 2021 - Emerging Companies Group Webinar Recording: Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- June 27, 2019 - The Drive Cowork and Murtha Cullina Law Lab Present Pitch Night
- May 24, 2016 - Jennifer Corvo featured on the CT Startup Podcast: Hiring employees and what that means for your startup
- Andy Corea to Speak at the Connecticut Bar Foundation's 10th Annual Attorneys of Color Symposium
- April 1, 2022 - Dave Menard Presenting "Legal Considerations for Business Funding" at the CT Entrepreneur Awards
- September 21, 2021 - Elizabeth Galletta Presenting "Introduction to Intellectual Property" MEWS+Incubator, Middlesex Chamber of Commerce
- March 30, 2021 - Business Lunch Series Webinar: Equity Financing
- February 24, 2021 - Business Lunch Series Webinar: Legal Basics 101 for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- November 5, 2020 - Business Lunch Webinar: What The Pandemic has Taught Us About Contractual Relationships and other Contract Caveats
- October 13, 2020 - Business Lunch Webinar: Legal Basics 101 for Entrepreneurs and Startups
- July 15, 2020 - Emerging Companies Group Webinar: When Debt is Good and Equity Isn't: Finding the Balance
- April 2, 2020 - POSTPONED - Community Pitch Challenge
- March 19, 2020 - POSTPONED - Spring Pitch Slam at District New Haven
- March 10, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: Equity Financing for Small Businesses
- February 20, 2020 - Law Lab Business Lunch Seminar: How to Incentivize Employees
- February 11, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: How To Incentivize Employees
- January 23, 2020 - Law Lab Business Lunch Seminar: Legal Basics 101
- January 14, 2020 - reSET Business Lunch Seminar: Legal Basics 101
- November 21, 2019 - Flight Night: Audience Choice Awards
- November 20, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Web Privacy and Personal Data Protection for Small Businesses
- November 12, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Web Privacy and Personal Data Protection for Small Businesses
- October 23, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Litigation 101
- October 16, 2019 - Fall Pitch Slam at Law Lab
- October 15, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Litigation 101
- September 25, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: When To Call Your Intellectual Property Attorney
- September 19, 2019 - Flight Night: Pitch Event
- September 17, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: When To Call Your Intellectual Property Attorney
- June 18, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Employment Law 101 - What You Need to Know for Your Small Business
- June 5, 2019 - Summer Pitch Slam at District New Haven
- May 21, 2019 - Elizabeth Galletta Presenting "IP Law for Startups" at reSET
- May 15, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Reading & Understanding Patent Documents
- April 24, 2019 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Immigration Issues 101 for Startups and Small Businesses
- April 16, 2019 - reSET Business Lunch Series: Equity Financing
- April 9, 2019 - Flight Night: Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- February 20, 2019 - Law Lab Lunch Series: Equity Financing
- November 28, 2018 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Privacy Policies For Your Website
- November 7, 2018 - Flight Night: Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- October 17, 2018 - Law Lab Business Lunch Series: Legal Basics 101
- May 9, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Tax-Exempt Organizations 101
- April 11, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Investments Legal 101
- March 14, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: Welcome to the World of Contracts
- February 14, 2018 - Business Lunch Series: What a CEO Needs to Know about Legal Issues in a Startup
- November 7, 2017 - Flight Night! Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- July 20, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 3: Marketing for Startups
- July 13, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 2: Startup Financing
- July 6, 2017 - Startup Seminar Series Part 1: Legal Basics For Entrepreneurs
- May 23, 2017 - Business Lunch Series for Entrepreneurs: Compensating Employees, Contractors & Volunteers
- April 21, 2017 - David Menard to moderate Investor Roundtable: Funding & Investing in B-Corps at the Yale School of Management
- April 5, 2017 - Flight Night! Connecticut's Start-Up Pitch Event for Entrepreneurs
- March 8, 2017 - Business Lunch Series: Equity Essentials for Entrepreneurs
- February 15, 2017 - Business Lunch Series: Legal Learnings for Startups
- December 1, 2016 - Flight Night: A Pitch Event for Start Ups and Entrepreneurs
- July 21, 2016 - David Menard will be a panelist at "Innovation Connection! Entrepreneurship & Capital - Where's the Money?," in Stamford, CT.
- June 15, 2016 - Business Lunch Series: Reading and Understanding Patent Documents
- May 18, 2016 - David Menard, Anthony Gangemi and Meredith Burns to present at UConn iQ InQbator Workshop #2 in Storrs, CT
- April 19 & 20, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: Employment Law for Entrepreneurs
- March 24, 2016 - Flight Night: An Open Pitch Forum for CT Start-Ups That are Building Businesses
- March 15 & 16, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: "Making it Rain" - Funding Opportunities from the DECD and CEDF
- February 16 & 17, 2016 - The Business Lunch Series: How to Avoid Being Hit By A Bus - Risk Management for Entrepreneurs
- January 19 & 20, 2016 - The Business Breakfast Series: Equity Crowdfunding - The Financing “Flash Mob”
- November 19, 2015 - Flight Night: An Open Pitch Forum for CT Start-Ups That are Building Businesses
- June 16 & 17, 2015 - Business Breakfast Series: Financial Traps for Entrepreneurs and Ways to Avoid Them
- May 12 & 13, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Equity Compensation, Giving a Share of the Business to Employees
- April 14 & 15, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Creating Financial Projections for a New or Small Company
- March 17 & 18, 2015- The Business Breakfast Series: Alternative Financing Methods
- March 5, 2015 - Flight Night: Connecticut's start-up pitch event
- February 17 & 18, 2015 - The Business Breakfast Series: Employment Law for Entrepreneurs