Drew Eckl & Farnham’s Corporate Transactions Group sponsored lunch for the Attorney AMA Program held at the Startup Shell student startup incubator on the University of Maryland campus in early February.
Drew Eckl & Farnham’s Corporate Transactions Group sponsored lunch for the Attorney AMA Program held at the Startup Shell student startup incubator on the University of Maryland campus in early February. Juliana Neelbauer, an attorney in the DEF Corporate Transactions group, fielded a variety of business and generalized legal questions from a group of business founders and inventors. Key topics discussed included how to select a business entity, split equity amongst larger founder teams, institute performance-based vesting of equity, define a winning trademarking strategy at startup, license technology, and leverage blockchain technologies to solve traditional industry problems within evolving legal frameworks.
After the Attorney AMA Program, the following campus leaders continued the discussion:
Ibrahim Hashme, Terrapin Hackers and Startup Shell member; Nathalyn Nunoo, a Startup Shell director; Yannick Zanfac, Startup Shell Design Fellow; Timothy Chen, Director of the 2018 Bitcamp hackathon; Juliana Neelbauer of Drew Eckl & Farnham; and Nate Carriere, Operations Manager of the Terrapin Works fabrication and prototyping lab system and CEO of Custom Brackets & Designs; and Brian Lee, Startup Shell member.