Startup Law Office Hours and Lunch for Pre-startup and Startup Founders with attorney Matt D. Whitehead of Feinberg Hanson LLP.
Startup Law Office Hours: January 29, 10am to noon, LSL S485
Startup founders face a wide variety of legal decisions before they have even created the startup and often before they have identified attorneys with the right expertise to provide legal services and advice. To help UMass Amherst startups and pre-startups address these challenges, IALS Venture Development is offering Startup Law Office Hours for founders that want to gain a better understanding of general legal issues related to startup formation, team development, and working with investors.
Request an office hours appointment: Office hours appointments are available at 10, 10:30, 11 and 11:30 am. To request a 30-minute slot, send an email with the subject “Requesting an appointment for Startup Law Office Hours” to Joann Chauvin (jchauvin@umass.edu) specifying the time(s) you are available. Appointment will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Startup Law Lunch: January 29, 12:15-1:30pm, LSL S485
Join us for a general discussion of the roles attorneys play in startups and law-related venture development pitfalls.
Register for lunch (required to reserve a spot): https://forms.gle/sg2KQdWYpN9ULFHQ9
About Matt Whitehead
Matt regularly advises companies on an array of general business and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, equity financing, and joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Matt also regularly counsels entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, and middle market companies on a broad range of general corporate and business planning matters, including entity formation, corporate governance, equity incentive plans, and commercial contracts.
Prior to joining Feinberg Hanson in July 2017, Matt was an associate in the corporate department of Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP, where he primarily represented clients in mergers and acquisitions and equity financing transactions. Matt received his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He has been admitted to the Massachusetts and New Hampshire bars.
