Convertible Debt vs. Priced Equity Rounds: Evaluating the Preferred Deal Structure for Early Stage Financing

Ms. Gubins is a business-oriented attorney with extensive experience throughout the lifecycle of a technology company, replacing or supplementing typical in-house counsel. She advises emerging and technology companies on formation, financing, corporate governance and public offerings as well as technology transactions and privacy and data security. Ms. Gubins has a broad transactional skill set that includes mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, IPOs, public offerings, terms of service agreements, equity compensation, and employment and contractor agreements.

Mr. Kerwin is a partner in the firm's Corporate Department. He is also a member of the firm’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Practice Group and a founding member of the Technology Practice Group. He works with clients across a range of industries, and regularly advises startup and growth-stage companies on various matters from formation to exit, including choice of entity, corporate governance, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital transactions, securities, commercial contract preparation and review, employment issues, buy-sell agreements and shareholder disputes, intellectual property protection and transfer, and mergers and acquisitions. He is actively involved in the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technology (PACT) and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).