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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Governance. Flexible VC offers you this. Thanks to Alawai H.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Often high enough to remove any local profit for operations in higher taxed economies. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes. Corporate bribery.