Technology + Corporate Securities Law
Representing Entrepreneurs, Investors and Technology Companies.
Jeff Harder’s representation of several leading life science industry venture capital firms over the past 35+ years has positioned him at the forefront of the technology industry. His unique experience as General Counsel of a public Internet company and as outside counsel at leading Texas law firms over his career allows him to be able to relate to virtually every situation and every type of client.
Contact: Jeff Harder
The Woodlands/Houston:
1095 Evergreen Circle, suite 200
The Woodlands, Texas 77380
jeff@harder.legal
(936) 499-7112
Areas of Practice
Technology
Whether it involves licensing new, cutting edge intellectual property from leading scientific research institutions to give birth to a new company or as General Counsel at a public Internet/computer based training company , or assisting software companies with their contracts and financings, Harder.Legal has been there and done that. Joint ventures, confidentiality agreements, collaboration and development agreements, license agreements, strategic partner transactions, distribution and reseller agreements….. are all second nature to Harder.Legal.
Corporate Securities
From SAFE instruments to convertible notes, seed stage financing or preferred rounds with sophisticated investors, Harder.Legal has the experience to handle your every need under the federal and state securities laws. The principal at Harder.Legal has been routinely recognized by the nation’s peers as one of the Nation’s Best at Venture Capital and Corporate Governance, which demonstrates the broad range of experience with both everyday corporate law, securities offerings as well as those once in a lifetime complex corporate transactions.
Venture Capital
Harder.Legal’s principal began handling venture capital transactions in Houston doing venture capital backed technology transfer start-ups, on behalf of George Mitchell and The Woodlands Venture Capital Company, from the Texas Medical Center. to help build our the Research Forest in The Woodlands with biotech and medical tech companies. Later he transitioned to representing The Woodlands Venture Fund and Ventures Medical , the two principal health care related Houston based venture capital firms on many of their investments into portfolio companies, as well as some of their portfolio companies as many of these companies went on to become public companies and/or get acquired. This has led to an entire career representing venture capital firms on their investments into exciting technology based companies as well as the portfolio companies themselves, and almost everything in between.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Sir Winston Churchill