Velloza Advogados meets the needs for specific assistance on high impact entrepreneurship (startups). Our firm is specialized in serving all players involved in this market, from accelerators, incubators, angel investors, investment funds to startups, since their early stage.
Our legal assistance to all players of the national innovation ecosystem provides a comprehensive solution by applying leading legal technique in catering to investor and entrepreneur dynamics. The main matters of our practice are:
• Advisory services for legal feasibility analysis and formatting of innovative business models, especially for the performance in regulated markets (fintechs, digital insurance brokers);
• Structuring of new financial products and means of payment;
• Structuring of business models that raise capital from the public (crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending – P2P);
• Partner agreements and preparation of the investee company;
• Tax planning for the development of startup activities or investment vehicles;
• Drafting of patent and/or utility model applications, trademark registrations and other procedures involving intellectual and industrial property;
• Drafting of employment and service agreements for the startup, including stock option and vesting instruments;
• Labor and tax compliance guidance to mitigate startup activity risk;
• Development of privacy policies, terms of use and clickwrap agreements;
• Preparation of software as service agreements (SaaS), service level agreements (SLA) and infrastructure as service agreements (IaaS);
• Preparation of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).