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Startups, Innovation and Venture Capital

With a multidisciplinary team, we offer extensive consultancy services aimed directly at the growth of startups, according to the individual needs of each company, assisting them from conception, through their effective constitution, to financial support from potential investors (“series”).

The proposal of the MAZZUCCO & MELLO ADVOGADOS office to clients who operate in new segments of the economy, such as industry 4.0, IoT, cryptocurrencies, gaming and other innovations in products and services related to technology, is to provide all the security and legal support for the development of their activities, presenting everything from the best corporate structure to meet the objective of the new business and enable the entry of financial resources, to the negotiation of contracts of any and all natures.

Our expectation is to proactively create a partnership with new entrepreneurs, assisting them in any business and legal issues, adapting startups to different market forms, further fostering the entrepreneurial ecosystem related to technology and innovations.

Our team offers the following services:

  • Legal advice on the formation of the company and obtaining operating licenses;
  • Structuring contracts between partners and strategic employees (shareholder agreements, option contracts, vesting);
  • Structuring financing and raising funds with strategic investors;
  • Regulatory compliance.

Experience

Experience

News

News

  • Advising a Chinese group on the acquisition and subsequent sale of an e-commerce startup.
  • Advising majority shareholders of fintech companies on the acquisition of minority stakes (2018) and the restructuring of shareholder agreements.
  • Sale of relevant stake in technology startup worth R$1MM.
  • Specialized legal advice to energytech.
  • Legal advice on the entry of heatlhtech into the medicinal cannabis sector in regulatory and corporate matters.
  • Legal advice to healthtech on contractual matters.

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