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José Ancer

José Ancer, Startup lawyer + CTO

Finding a good lawyer to support your startup journey is one of the keys to succeeding. A lot of tech companies drop the ball on their legal agreements and don’t understand the impact that this has until they start to raise a Series A or other round of investment that requires proper due diligence. A good lawyer will help you get on top of this early and save you some pain in the future.

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José Ancer, Startup lawyer + CTO

Focus on formations, angel and venture capital financings, board governance, and liquidity/exits, while helping clients receive “full service”.Clients have raised from top VCs, including Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Susa, and others. Also work closely with founding teams and boards as they achieve liquidity and exit on transactions led by M&A colleagues.

In addition to legal practice, Serve as a legal CTO; leveraging technology and creative business processes to (i) deliver emerging companies scalable, world class corporate and commercial counsel without the unnecessary overhead of traditional law firms, and (ii) ensure top-tier attorneys’ billings aren’t burned to feed a bloated law firm bureaucracy. We allow Corporate & M&A lawyers to build elite legal practices, at rates dramatically leaner than “BigLaw,” and with competitive compensation that still affords work-life balance.

José Ancer is internationally-followed VC law blog, is structured for early-stage founders to educate themselves on strategic legal and finance issues. It’s written from the perspective of a VC lawyer without the usual conflicts of interest with various parts of the venture capital/investor community, which often biases the advice they give. The goal of SHL is to help founders avoid mistakes, and keep “the money” honest.