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2010

Q3 Issue - Topics include: In Re Trados Case, Small Business Jobs Act Tax Benefit Opportunities, Onex Decision Provides Sales Tax Relieft for Start-up Manufacturing.

2009

Q4 Issue - Topics include: Caps on Participating Preferred Stock, Fiduciary Duty Obligations to Common Stockholders and Carve-out Plans, and Massachusetts Earnout Decision.

Q3 Issue - Topics include: Decline in Series A Rounds, Convertible Note Offerings, Disclosure Obligations for Stockholder Notices in Context of Recap Preferred Stock Financing

Q1 Issue - Topics include: Bonus/Carve-out Plans, Pay-to-Play Provisions, Officer Fiduciary Duties.

2008

Q4 Issue - Topics include: Down Round Financing, Anti-Dilution Adjustments, Clarification of Requirements for Patentable Subject Matter.

Q2 Issue - Topics include: New Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws Triple Damages Requirement, Founder Representation and Warranties, IP Assignment Clause.

Q1 Issue - Topics include: Stock Option Pricing for Private Companies (409A), Double Trigger Acceleration, Fiduciary Duties of Board of Directors in Merger.

2007

Winter Issue - Topics include: Sarbanes-Oxley for Privately Held Companies, Making of a Winning Term Sheet - Part II, Regulation D Proposed Amendments.

Fall Issue - Topics include: Founders' Equity, Adjusting the Equity Plan Reserve in a Multi-Tranced Deal, and Patent Licensing.

Spring Issue - Topics include: The Making of a Winning Term Sheet — The Special Founder Liquidation Preference, Bridging the Option Pool Gap, What Venture Backed Companies Need To Know About the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act, and more.

Winter Issue - Topics include: Data Mining the Venture-Backed Charter for Market Comparables, 2006 Series A Deal Terms, NVCA Model Form Liquidation Preference Escrow Provision, and more.