Many successful legal agreements begin with the term sheet; a document listing the key points of the business deal that has been struck between the parties. A deal point can be as simple as the ...

January 11, 2024 - When negotiating licenses to intellectual property (IP) or collaboration agreements (such as research partnerships, sponsored projects, and joint ventures), universities frequently ...

Critically, term sheets can also vary in their enforceability—some being binding, some nonbinding or some combination of the two. When deals run into trouble, or fall apart completely, litigants will ...

When we launched in 2016, we took the unusual approach of saying we’d buy common stock in startups. We believed then, and still do, that alignment with founders was more important than covering our ...