Private Equity & Securities

You’re ambitious, hardworking, you’ve got a brilliant idea and you’re ready to start your business. But what do you really need to know to achieve startup success and to protect your business down the road? Statistics around startups can be intimidating: 50 percent of new businesses fail within five years…

Much of the focus this year at Expo West, the premier natural foods trade show, was on plant-based products. From “real” food to medicinal infusions and environmentally friendly packaging trends – plant-based products are everywhere. As head of the firm’s food and beverage industry practice, I joined attorney Samantha Pjesky…

Ciaccio’s renewable energy and transactional expertise are key to KO’s corporate practice KO Law Firm is pleased to announce the promotion of Charles Ciaccio to partner, effective January 2019. Charles’ practice focuses on business transactions, including company formation, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financings, and he represents clients in a…

As cannabis and hemp operations continue to grow in size and scale, KO client Front Range Biosciences has recently closed a $10 million Series A funding round. The deal, supported by KO team members Jennifer Rosenthal, Ryan Sykora and Krystal Rushton, will help the leader in cannabis, hemp and coffee…

At a time when the blockchain industry is seeing major growth, KO team members Jennifer Rosenthal and Ian Kuliasha recently supported their client Dapix on an incubation and seed funding round to support the public launch of Dapix’s  platform to revolutionize blockchain with inter-wallet usability. The seed funding, led by Access Venture Partners, will support…

KO client SSB, a leading data management and analytics platform provider to the sports and entertainment, education, and healthcare sectors, announced today that Strattam Capital, along with SSB’s Senior Partners and incoming CEO Mike Banville, have signed a definitive agreement to make a majority growth investment in SSB. The investment…

KO client Front Range Biosciences, a startup agricultural biotech firm based in Lafayette, announced that they raised $1.5 million in funderin from five venture-capital firms. Front Range Biosciences provides industrial-scale tissue culture propagation and advanced breeding for plants. You can find the full article here.