In this fast-paced, entertaining presentation, small business attorney and best-selling author Cliff Ennico will focus on the particular challenges lawyers face when representing a small business or an entrepreneurial startup company (there’s a big difference between the two).

Topics to be covered include:

• The difference between small businesses and entrepreneurial startups
• Areas of the law you need to be familiar with when representing the small business/startup client
• The seven steps to forming a legal entity for the small business/startup client
• LLCs, corporations, and S corporations: which is the best vehicle for a small business client?
• Complying with the federal Corporate Transparency Act
• Preparing Shareholders’ Agreements, Operating Agreements, and “Buy-Sell” (restriction on share transfer) Agreement for LLC and corporate clients
• How small businesses and entrepreneurial clients are financed, and how attorneys can help with that process
• The mechanics of financing by company founders and “friends and family” financings for small businesses
• “Angel” and “venture capital” rounds of financing for entrepreneurial startups; and
• The basics of crowdfunded offerings under SEC regulations.