Description
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive
Practical Guide provides direction on the wide array of legal questions and challenges that start-ups face.
Start-up Law features analysis from five jurisdictions that represent a variety of legal traditions across different continents. Expert contributors address key legal issues for technology-based start-ups and entrepreneurs, as well as providing insights into the law and practice of the countries examined.
Key features include:
- a focus on the complete life cycle of a start-up, from innovative idea through growth of the business to success or failure
- specific, in-depth analysis of law relating to start-up businesses in Denmark, Canada, Israel, Switzerland and the United States
- guidance aimed at helping start-ups and entrepreneurs navigate the diverse legal and regulatory hurdles they may encounter, including practical insights from expert contributors with first hand industry experience.
Start-up Law will prove crucial reading for lawyers advising technology start-ups, as well as entrepreneurs themselves in this sector. It will also be useful for scholars and students in business and commercial law, as well as policy-makers interested in providing a supportive regulatory environment for innovation and start-ups.
Trade Review‘Start-up Law
provides a broad overview of the key legal questions that young companies are required to master, doing so in comprehensive language, understandable by non-practitioners. It particularly addresses the need for start-up companies to look outside their own borders to benefit from the various opportunities of global jurisdictions. For anyone who is either starting a company or looking to expand to one of the covered jurisdictions, this resource will help you save a lot of valuable time and legal fees.' -- Matthieu Guiessaz, Blockchain Valley Ventures, Switzerland
Table of ContentsContents: Part I – Introduction and Importance of Start-ups 1. Introduction Alexandra Andhov 2. Importance of Start-ups for our Legal Systems Alexandra Andhov Part II - Jurisdictions 3. Canada Oleg Stratiev 4. Denmark Alexandra Andhov, Jakob Wested and Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen 5. Israel Ehud Kamar, Ayal Shenhav and Shay Yanovsky 6. Switzerland Michèle Ineczka Kappeler and Luigi Bruno 7. The United States Drew Amerson and Alice Armitage Index
