Negotiating/Understanding Your Initial Angel and Venture Funding Round

Please join Bardia Moayedi for an introductory crash course on the typical legal and business terms involved with, and negotiated in, venture capital fundraising including SAFE, Convertible Note, Series Seed and Series A financings.

About the speaker:
Bardia is a Partner at Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. who has significant experience representing companies and financial firms in a broad range of general corporate governance and transactional matters, including venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, debt offerings, spin-offs/divestitures, joint ventures, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and tender offers. He is a trusted advisor and partner, often serving as outside general counsel or lead counsel to his clients.

Before joining the firm, Bardia was an attorney at well-known Silicon Valley and Boston-based international law firms. During law school, he worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., as part of the summer honors program. He was also an executive editor of California Business Practice.

Prior to attending law school, Bardia worked at a prominent investment bank, where he focused on hedge funds and private equity funds.