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About Paul A. Swegle
Paul Swegle is general counsel to several tech companies and advises a dozen others as outside counsel. To date, he has served as general counsel to thirteen companies and has completed $12+ billion of financings and M&A deals, including growing and selling startups to public companies ING, Capital One, Nortek, and Abbott.
Paul is also an adjunct law professor and teaches entrepreneurial law and finance at Seattle University School of Law. He was a lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice early in his career.
Paul's first book, "Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals," shares what he's learned working on thousands of agreements across varied industries for over 20 years. It's all about avoiding common contract pitfalls and maximizing commercial relationships. It's also a frequent Amazon bestseller in business law. Law schools and business programs across the country use it, as do law firms and in-house law, procurement, and sales departments.
Paul's second book, "Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors," was published on July 23, 2020, and is about helping entrepreneurs do three things:
- build their companies on a solid foundation,
- avoid costly and distracting legal and regulatory mistakes, and
- raise the money they need to succeed.
Everyone interested in startups and small businesses will find Startup Law and Fundraising invaluable. But it is also designed to provide a turnkey entrepreneurial law and finance class at any level, including law school, MBA, undergraduate business, community college, or startup accelerator.
Paul's third book, "Careers in the Law," will be published in late 2021. It profiles more than 200 areas of law, plus many non-law alternatives for law degree holders. As a busy practicing attorney and leader in the legal profession, Paul interacts daily with attorneys working in many different areas of the law. He has mentored and advised hundreds of law students and attorneys. At all times, his several companies have engagements in place with 20+ law firms across the country and globally. As a bar leader, Paul has a front-row perspective on the impacts of technology and other forces on the legal profession.
Careers in the law will be a uniquely rich, insightful, and timely look at law careers and non-law career alternatives, with insights from hundreds of attorneys.
Paul Swegle's books are published by Business Law Seminar Group, LLC. Independent book stores and book procurement specialists: If you wish to buy Paul's books at wholesale costs or you have unique procurement needs to discuss, please reach out to businesslawseminargroup@gmail.com.
Paul is also an adjunct law professor and teaches entrepreneurial law and finance at Seattle University School of Law. He was a lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice early in his career.
Paul's first book, "Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals," shares what he's learned working on thousands of agreements across varied industries for over 20 years. It's all about avoiding common contract pitfalls and maximizing commercial relationships. It's also a frequent Amazon bestseller in business law. Law schools and business programs across the country use it, as do law firms and in-house law, procurement, and sales departments.
Paul's second book, "Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors," was published on July 23, 2020, and is about helping entrepreneurs do three things:
- build their companies on a solid foundation,
- avoid costly and distracting legal and regulatory mistakes, and
- raise the money they need to succeed.
Everyone interested in startups and small businesses will find Startup Law and Fundraising invaluable. But it is also designed to provide a turnkey entrepreneurial law and finance class at any level, including law school, MBA, undergraduate business, community college, or startup accelerator.
Paul's third book, "Careers in the Law," will be published in late 2021. It profiles more than 200 areas of law, plus many non-law alternatives for law degree holders. As a busy practicing attorney and leader in the legal profession, Paul interacts daily with attorneys working in many different areas of the law. He has mentored and advised hundreds of law students and attorneys. At all times, his several companies have engagements in place with 20+ law firms across the country and globally. As a bar leader, Paul has a front-row perspective on the impacts of technology and other forces on the legal profession.
Careers in the law will be a uniquely rich, insightful, and timely look at law careers and non-law career alternatives, with insights from hundreds of attorneys.
Paul Swegle's books are published by Business Law Seminar Group, LLC. Independent book stores and book procurement specialists: If you wish to buy Paul's books at wholesale costs or you have unique procurement needs to discuss, please reach out to businesslawseminargroup@gmail.com.
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“The best advice comes from relevant experience, and Paul Swegle demonstrates that he has a ton of it in Startup Law and Fundraising. A compendium of everything entrepreneurs, both newbies and veterans, need to know to take their startup from cradle to sale or IPO, the book provides not only detailed information on everything from company formation to IP protection and fundraising, but also includes dozens of real-life case studies that demonstrate why these topics are so critical to startup success.” -Geoff Entress, Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs, former Venture Partner at Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group, angel investor in over 200 companies
Entrepreneurship can be chaotic. Some chaos drives innovation. But legal chaos rocks many startups to their foundations, dashing dreams, jeopardizing jobs and investments, creating liabilities, and slowing innovation.
Paul Swegle wrote Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors to help startups avoid these pitfalls, including the pitfall of struggling to grow a poorly funded business.
This is a practical book meant to help entrepreneurs and their advisors:
- build on a solid foundation,
- avoid costly legal and regulatory mistakes, and
- raise the money needed for stability, innovation, and operational success.
Startup Law and Fundraising is for everyone interested in business, business law, and startup fundraising. Its 550 pages cover an unmatched range of startup-focused concepts, tips, traps, strategies, and best practices. Fifty-one colorful startup case studies keep things interesting.
Legal, governance and regulatory hurdles are covered in the book’s first ten chapters. But surviving those hurdles is no guarantee of success. Many startups simply run out of money. Others are bedeviled by ill-advised early funding rounds.
Startup Law and Fundraising devotes five chapters to creating and executing a fundraising plan around the principles of just-in-time finance and raising money from the right investors, in the right amounts, and on the right terms, whether from friends and family, angel investors, angel investing groups, seed funds, VCs, strategic investors, accelerators, or crowdfunding platforms.
The final chapters fittingly cover the final chapters of startup life – optimizing an “exit” with a successful IPO or sale, or, as happens about 80% of the time, managing through insolvency and winding up.
Startup Law and Fundraising provides the foundation for an entrepreneurial law and finance class at any level, including law school, MBA, undergraduate business, community college, or startup incubator.
Author Paul Swegle is a business attorney and adjunct law professor. He teaches entrepreneurial law and finance at Seattle University School of Law. Paul has served as general counsel to thirteen companies, counseled more than 100 others, and worked for the SEC and DOJ early in his career.
Paul is currently general counsel to several companies and advises a dozen other technology companies. He has completed $12+ billion of financings and M&A deals, including growing and selling startups to publicly-traded companies ING, Capital One, Nortek, and Abbott.
17 CHAPTERS: Legal and Regulatory Mistakes * Pre-Company Formation * Entity Selection and Formation * Structuring and Managing Key Relationships * IP – Protecting Rights and Avoiding Liabilities * Common Regulatory Mistakes * State and Federal Securities Laws * Startup Finance Overview * Seed and Pre-Seed Fundraising * Venture Capital Fundraising *Venture Capital Alternatives * The Exit * The Zone of Insolvency
Entrepreneurship can be chaotic. Some chaos drives innovation. But legal chaos rocks many startups to their foundations, dashing dreams, jeopardizing jobs and investments, creating liabilities, and slowing innovation.
Paul Swegle wrote Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors to help startups avoid these pitfalls, including the pitfall of struggling to grow a poorly funded business.
This is a practical book meant to help entrepreneurs and their advisors:
- build on a solid foundation,
- avoid costly legal and regulatory mistakes, and
- raise the money needed for stability, innovation, and operational success.
Startup Law and Fundraising is for everyone interested in business, business law, and startup fundraising. Its 550 pages cover an unmatched range of startup-focused concepts, tips, traps, strategies, and best practices. Fifty-one colorful startup case studies keep things interesting.
Legal, governance and regulatory hurdles are covered in the book’s first ten chapters. But surviving those hurdles is no guarantee of success. Many startups simply run out of money. Others are bedeviled by ill-advised early funding rounds.
Startup Law and Fundraising devotes five chapters to creating and executing a fundraising plan around the principles of just-in-time finance and raising money from the right investors, in the right amounts, and on the right terms, whether from friends and family, angel investors, angel investing groups, seed funds, VCs, strategic investors, accelerators, or crowdfunding platforms.
The final chapters fittingly cover the final chapters of startup life – optimizing an “exit” with a successful IPO or sale, or, as happens about 80% of the time, managing through insolvency and winding up.
Startup Law and Fundraising provides the foundation for an entrepreneurial law and finance class at any level, including law school, MBA, undergraduate business, community college, or startup incubator.
Author Paul Swegle is a business attorney and adjunct law professor. He teaches entrepreneurial law and finance at Seattle University School of Law. Paul has served as general counsel to thirteen companies, counseled more than 100 others, and worked for the SEC and DOJ early in his career.
Paul is currently general counsel to several companies and advises a dozen other technology companies. He has completed $12+ billion of financings and M&A deals, including growing and selling startups to publicly-traded companies ING, Capital One, Nortek, and Abbott.
17 CHAPTERS: Legal and Regulatory Mistakes * Pre-Company Formation * Entity Selection and Formation * Structuring and Managing Key Relationships * IP – Protecting Rights and Avoiding Liabilities * Common Regulatory Mistakes * State and Federal Securities Laws * Startup Finance Overview * Seed and Pre-Seed Fundraising * Venture Capital Fundraising *Venture Capital Alternatives * The Exit * The Zone of Insolvency
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"A bible for transactional lawyers and entrepreneurs...."
- Steven W. Bender, Professor and Associate Dean, Seattle University School of Law
"The book is written for the interested lay person, but I would recommend that my law students get a copy as well and use it as a handy reference when they enter practice and begin advising business clients.”
- Daniel J. Morrissey, Professor of Law and Former Dean, Gonzaga University Law School
"Every entrepreneur should read this book. Swegle does a wonderful job of making legal terminology and building blocks accessible to anybody - a rare accomplishment!... A marvelous blueprint for creating successful business relationships and avoiding costly problems and liabilities."
-Seaton Gras, Founder and CEO, SURF Incubator - a vibrant community for technology startups
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Author and attorney Paul Swegle has spent much of his career working closely with business colleagues in companies across several industries to negotiate and document commercial arrangements - contracts that supported the design, development, launch, distribution and marketing of countless products and services.
In doing so, Paul has witnessed and celebrated countless successful commercial relationships, some lasting more than a decade. He has also learned important lessons from myriad ill-fated relationships, tripped up by poorly written agreements, under-performing commercial partners and unexpected surprises of nearly every variety.
Paul's book presents practical insights accumulated and shared with business colleagues over a 20-year period. Its purpose is to help business persons negotiate agreements that achieve their business goals without creating unexpected and unnecessary risks and liabilities. Paul’s guidance emphasizes mindfulness of the balance between protecting key interests while still getting important deals done.
Paul has served as in-house general counsel to twelve different companies across many industries. He worked previously in the SEC’s Enforcement Division and its Division of Corporation Finance, and also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Paul gives talks around the country on startup law and fundraising, guest-lectures in business law and technology law classes, serves on the Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association and writes on a range of law, governance and finance topics.
- Steven W. Bender, Professor and Associate Dean, Seattle University School of Law
"The book is written for the interested lay person, but I would recommend that my law students get a copy as well and use it as a handy reference when they enter practice and begin advising business clients.”
- Daniel J. Morrissey, Professor of Law and Former Dean, Gonzaga University Law School
"Every entrepreneur should read this book. Swegle does a wonderful job of making legal terminology and building blocks accessible to anybody - a rare accomplishment!... A marvelous blueprint for creating successful business relationships and avoiding costly problems and liabilities."
-Seaton Gras, Founder and CEO, SURF Incubator - a vibrant community for technology startups
DESCRIPTION
Author and attorney Paul Swegle has spent much of his career working closely with business colleagues in companies across several industries to negotiate and document commercial arrangements - contracts that supported the design, development, launch, distribution and marketing of countless products and services.
In doing so, Paul has witnessed and celebrated countless successful commercial relationships, some lasting more than a decade. He has also learned important lessons from myriad ill-fated relationships, tripped up by poorly written agreements, under-performing commercial partners and unexpected surprises of nearly every variety.
Paul's book presents practical insights accumulated and shared with business colleagues over a 20-year period. Its purpose is to help business persons negotiate agreements that achieve their business goals without creating unexpected and unnecessary risks and liabilities. Paul’s guidance emphasizes mindfulness of the balance between protecting key interests while still getting important deals done.
Paul has served as in-house general counsel to twelve different companies across many industries. He worked previously in the SEC’s Enforcement Division and its Division of Corporation Finance, and also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Paul gives talks around the country on startup law and fundraising, guest-lectures in business law and technology law classes, serves on the Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association and writes on a range of law, governance and finance topics.
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