Frier Levitt Is a Trusted Advisor for Start-up Businesses and Investors Throughout the Country
Frier Levitt has helped start-up businesses throughout the country in the healthcare, life sciences and pharmacy space. Our knowledgeable attorneys have assisted with the following representative types of matters:
- Restructuring, executive compensation, employee, IP, contracts (SOW, PSA) and structuring forms of agreements for a healthcare analytics software company.
- Structuring, regulatory, license, IP and outside general counsel advice to a start-up pharmaceutical return service (reverse distribution) company.
- Structuring, regulatory and related advice to a client starting a national MSO business and a platform for the delivery of behavioral health services by licensed providers.
- Structuring, regulatory and related advice to a client starting a regional dental DSO business.
- IP and license issues for a physician investor in a company owning and developing an app for emergency plastic surgery referrals, a portal to which photos of the injury could be sent from the emergency room to physician.
- Finance, diligence and structuring advice to the owner of healthcare software for medical office solutions who licensed the technology to a start-up company (an SAAS solution for medical care), including an investment in over 10% of the company in restricted stock and a SAFE.
- IP (including patentability analysis), diligence and restructuring advice to an investor in a start-up healthcare technology company.
- Developing a healthcare data aggregation commercialization business.
- Developing and structuring various healthcare related businesses, including Super Groups, surgical centers, laboratories, pharmacies and imaging centers.
How Can Frier Levitt Help You With Your Start-up Business?
Frier Levitt will help you develop, test, implement and maintain your business model, taking into account and assessing regulatory and industry compliance requirements and expectations.
Frier Levitt will structure and form your company, putting in place the best foundation considering industry and investor considerations. Whether an LLC, a C or S Corp, a partnership, a benefit corporation (or B corp), or a professional entity, Frier Levitt will help you decide and execute on the best plan of action. Following formation, we can handle your day-to-day corporate and governance issues, including corporate filings; shareholder agreement issues; board and owner approvals; admitting new owners; investor transfers and withdrawals; expanding your business into new states or countries; and restructuring your holdings as your business grows.
Frier Levitt will evaluate and protect your technology and IP and assess related market strategies and issues, with cutting edge experience across patent, trademark, trade secret and other soft IP issues.
Frier Levitt regularly handles management services agreements (“MSAs”), Professional Services Agreements (“PSAs”), Statements of Work (“SOWs”), distribution and supply agreements, customer agreements, licenses, noncompetition agreements, PIAAs, NDAs, Business Associate Agreements (“BAAs”), terms of use and all other key contracts and related regulatory issues for your business. We will work with you to develop a suite of template terms and documents to get your business up and running in a consistent, compliant and cost-effective manner.
From insurance alternatives to dispute resolution and high stakes litigation, Frier Levitt will advise on, handle and resolve arbitration and litigation claims in a practical business-oriented way.
Building Your Business Team
Frier Levitt will help you grow your business organically by hiring employees and executives, through structuring and preparing employment, consulting, incentive compensation and benefits arrangements as well as working with you to develop a set of standard terms, policies, handbooks, and agreements.
Frier Levitt has an extensive network among other key experts, advisors and partners to consider for your team, including accounting, financial, compliance and administrative experts. In the healthcare and life science spaces Frier Levitt also has an unparalleled reach among industry experts and advisors for potential strategic partnerships and boards.
Growing and Maximizing the Value of Your Business
Frier Levitt will help you with the capital and financing you need to keep your business running, including investor agreements, JV agreements, loan agreements, SBA loans and issues.
Frier Levitt has broad and deep expertise with acquisition agreements, particularly in the highly regulated healthcare and life science spaces. We know and anticipate industry-specific issues that will impact the value of the business you are looking to acquire, and your own business when you are looking to sell. From the letter of intent through cost-effective diligence to definitive agreements through closing, Frier Levitt will help you structure, negotiate, draft and consummate acquisitions and other transactions in a way that maximizes the value of your business.
Why Frier Levitt for your Start-Up Business?
We are entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping other entrepreneurs, innovators, companies, and investors in the healthcare, life sciences, and pharmacy spaces. We serve as business-minded advisors who understand both the issues and the players, and we deliver practical, commercially focused analysis and solutions to the regulatory, industry, and operational challenges your business will face.
While many legal advisors work with start-ups across a range of industries, Frier Levitt is distinct. For more than 25 years, we have focused exclusively on these sectors, giving us unmatched depth and breadth of experience. We work closely with you, listen carefully, and tailor our services to your specific needs and objectives.
Our experience spans inventors, entrepreneurs, and start-ups; angel, venture capital, and private equity investors; small and middle-market companies; joint ventures and strategic alliances; emerging growth companies going public; and large public and private equity-backed enterprises. We understand where you want to go and what needs to be in place to help you get there.
How Frier Levitt Can Help
Frier Levitt provides strategic, industry-focused legal counsel tailored to your needs. Contact our team today to learn how we can help you.