For someone starting a business, addressing legal issues can be intimidating from both a cost and time perspective. Mapping a startup's initial legal needs can help create predictability around expenses, clarify questions of prioritization of expenses, and improve allocation of resources.

Gina Atwood will outline the common legal needs of startups - corporate formation and governance, contracts, IP and Securities. The presentation will provide education on some of the core legal issues faced by startup, and offer suggestions for how to improve the predictability of legal expenses. It will be followed by an interactive session where interested attendees will brainstorm with Gina about their startup needs. 

Gina Atwood is a business attorney with experience assisting clients to address their business and litigation needs. Currently, Gina works at Immix Law Group, a law firm that seeks to provide clients with holistic legal advice that properly addresses the business reality unique to each client. Previously, Gina practiced in the intellectual property and antitrust group of a large western law firm, where she served a diverse client base, from small local business entrepreneurs to large national and international commercial entities. She has experience with business formation and governance, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, secured transactions, product liability defense, and insurance issues.

Gina has also worked as an executive consultant serving the higher education technology market. Through this work, Gina helped large and small technology corporations, institutions of higher learning, and technology foundations to achieve their business communications and marketing objectives. In this work, Gina often developed and facilitated initiatives designed to grow communities supporting open source solutions.

Gina has lived in the Middle East, Central America, Asia, and the South Pacific. She invests considerable time in the local community, assisting with victims' rights issues and also volunteering in the K-12 education community through foundation work.  

The talk will begin at 6.00pm in the TiE Westside Incubator. 

 Event Free for Incubator Tenants