Overview

Adam serves as legal partner and advisor to emerging companies and their founders and executives, as well as venture capital funds, angel investors and other early-stage, seed and growth capital investors. 

Adam counsels clients through the issues they face at each stage of the startup life cycle, including incorporation and LLC formation, founder agreements and other stockholder agreements, debt and equity financings, such as SAFEs and convertible notes, Series Seed, Series A, and late-stage financing rounds, as well as venture debt, stock options and stock incentive plans, securities laws, corporate governance matters, and mergers and acquisitions.

Adam represents startups and investors in industry sectors that include Software as a Service (SaaS), climate tech, agricultural technology (AgTech), financial technology (FinTech), unmanned technology, healthcare technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer products, among others.

Before joining Michael Best, Adam was a member of the emerging companies and venture capital group in the Durham office of the Forrest Firm, a North Carolina based boutique corporate law firm.  Prior to that, Adam was as an associate at Hutchison PLLC in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Experience

Adam’s recent representative transactions include the following:

Financings

  • Represented climate SaaS company in $8.8 million Series A financing.
  • Represented consumer products company in $8 million Series A financing.
  • Represented FinTech company in $7.4 million seed financing.
  • Represented climate software company in raising $2.3 million in convertible note financing and $3.8 million Series A financing.
  • Represented venture capital fund in its Series B investment in a SaaS company.
  • Represented venture capital fund as lead investor in the Series A financing of an AgTech company.
  • Represented venture capital fund in a convertible note investment and as lead investor in the Series Seed financing of a SaaS company.
  • Represented university angel network as lead investor in the Series Seed financing of a consumer products company.

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Represented climate software company in its stock sale to a public company acquiror.
  • Represented biotechnology company in its acquisition by merger.
  • Represented healthcare technology company in its acquisition by merger.
  • Represented security systems and communications company in its acquisition by stock sale.
  • Represented consumer products company in the sale of substantially all of its assets.
  • Represented client in its acquisition by merger of a clinical research services company.

Honors & Recognitions

  • Rising Star, North Carolina Super Lawyers Magazine, 2019, 2021-2022, 2024

Professional Activities

  • Board of Directors, Operation Motorsport Program Foundation, Inc., 2021-present
  • Member, North Carolina Bar Association
  • Member, Wake County Bar Association

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