I am a lawyer and work principally with two types of companies: Early stage startups, where I help the founders to create new businesses, allocate equity among founders and document fundraising transactions from the angel and VC communities; and Growth-stage and mature companies, where I work with busy legal departments on licensing, sales, development, marketing and other revenue-driving transactions. My approach is based on flexibility and timely client-specific guidance.
Jay Parkhill is a Partner at Virtual Law Partners. His expertise is in two principal areas:
Startup companies, where he helps the founders to create new businesses, allocate equity among founders and document fundraising transactions from the angel and VC communities; and
Growth-stage and mature companies, where he helps busy legal departments with licensing, sales, development, marketing and other revenue-driving transactions.
His clients run the gamut from the IT and web fields to restaurants, consumer products, service industries and many other types of companies. He loves the consumer web, sustainability and social entrepreneurship, but invariably finds it is the people who make his job so interesting.
Jay graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1998, where he served as Internet Editor of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. Prior to joining VLP he worked in transactional firms Niesar & Diamond and Montgomery Law Group before forming his own law firm, Parkhill Venture Counsel. He is a member of the State Bar of California. Jay is also a longstanding volunteer at the Cleantech Open business plan competition, the author of numerous profiles of successful consumer internet companies at www.startup-review.com and blogs at blog.jparkhill.com.