Our Services

Great idea + great team + great execution + great law firm            = big success.

Let Foley Hoag be part of your big success.

At the Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag, we focus on serving the legal needs of venture funded and venture “fundable” startup companies across all industries.  Because of our experience and focus, we can skillfully and efficiently handle the wide range of issues facing these companies at their inception and throughout their life cycle.  No startup company is “too early” for our involvement—many of our largest clients started out as an entrepreneur or two in a garage or coffee shop with the seed of an idea.  We are particularly familiar with the expectations of angel and venture investors and the documentation they require.

To us, being lawyers is about more than just providing clients with the best legal advice, it is also about helping our clients to succeed.  We aim to create a relationship with you where you think of us not only as your legal advisor, but also as a sounding board for your business strategies.  We believe that our extensive contacts among angel and venture investors, financial institutions, emerging companies and leading industry organizations permit us to provide substantial added value beyond legal services, whether through contacts and introductions or simple awareness of how another party to a transaction thinks.  We also strive to understand each client's business goals and challenges in order to best use our experience to add value to the enterprise.

We are particularly sensitive to the capital constraints, uncertainty and special challenges that our entrepreneurial clients face.  Working with Foley Hoag allows you, the entrepreneur, to work with a start-up lawyer who has unmatched access to deep experience and leading specialists within areas that impact start-ups including, to name a few, I.P. protection, angel and venture financings, securities regulation and employment law.  Furthermore, as a leading national business law firm, the scope of legal services we can provide our clients scales along with their business.