Lindsey Mignano

Lindsey S. Mignano represents emerging technology companies and industry-adjacent firms and SMEs as their outside general counsel. Her team’s practice includes SAFE note or priced round raises for early-stage (seed through Series B) startups, including bridge/extension rounds; buy-side or sell-side acquisitions, including asset sales plus acquihires or entity acquisitions, including due diligence and any novations of existing customer contracts; flips from abroad entity structures to a DE C Corp structure for the purposes of procuring American venture capital and the related priced round; corporate restructuring in order to achieve tax optimization for raises, sales, or co-founder exits/business divorces; corporate due diligence and cleanup in preparation for a raise or sale, including due diligence and cleanup related to stock grants, IP assignments, commercial contracts, etc.; IP spinouts, particularly transferring IP out of consulting businesses into a C Corp structure for QSBS or venture capital fundraising purposes; and outside general counsel services. ​Most of her clients are venture-capital funded at the seed ($1M to 5M+ range), Series A ($10M+ range), and Series B ($20M+ range). In terms of verticals, her most popular vertical includes enterprise SaaS/PaaS companies, many of which are AI technology companies. Her other clients include venture capital firms deploying capital to startups and other adjacent businesses that sell to or otherwise do business with technology companies.