Robert J.Sell

Bob advises early stage companies in connection with entity formation, structuring, and equity financing matters, including early stage equity financings, private security offerings, convertible debt offerings, and founder ownership and equity compensation matters. He advises later-stage companies in connection with venture capital financings, strategic partnership transactions that facilitate sales and growth, and contractual matters relating to the monetization and enhancement of a company’s products and services. Bob advises mature companies, and their boards of directors, in connection with sophisticated contractual matters, the development of exit strategies, and acquisitions for growth and mergers, stock, and asset sales in connection with an exit.

Bob also regularly assists individual management level executives, and management teams, in connection with executive employment agreements and equity compensation matters in venture capital, M&A and private equity investment settings, in collaboration with the firm’s employee benefits and labor and employment lawyers.

Although he has worked with companies in many industries throughout his career, Bob has a particular focus on, and interest in companies that are in the technology industry or have technology-enabled products. He is regularly involved in contractual matters that involve the licensing and commercialization of intellectual property assets, and strategic partnership and joint venture transactions involving technology collaborations. Bob also regularly prepares and negotiates the terms of enterprise computer software license and implementation agreements, hardware purchase agreements, software development, services and software as a service agreements, data processing agreements, value-added reseller agreements, and software marketing and distribution agreements. In connection with his work on such technology transaction matters, Bob has developed extensive experience and knowledge with respect to outsourcing, antitrust, data confidentiality and security issues, and the independent contractor, inventor, and intellectual property ownership issues that frequently arise in such projects.

Bob has assisted national and international financial, accounting, insurance, food, consumer product, defense, construction product, telecommunications, nanotechnology, biotechnology, hardware, software, marketing, and metals finishing and metals manufacturing companies, among many others, in connection with corporate advisory matters, M&A transactions, and technology transactions—at all stages of development, from early stage to publicly held.