In this interview with Jeremy Glaser, who is a partner at the law firm Mintz Levin and also serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice, we discuss the importance of negotiating a cap on the participation in upsides in a participating preferred stock offering. There are other key deal terms, but this is paramount.
According to Jeremy: “The key for entrepreneurs out there is that there are a lot of deals done with participating preferred. Everything is market driven, whether you can negotiate something different. If you have the market power to do it, you want to negotiate a cap on that participation, at the minimum. This is so that, at some point, when there is a successful M&A exit, they’re going to convert. They will give up that initial liquidation preference and just share equally with the common on the sale proceeds.”
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This is Patrick Henry, CEO of QuestFusion, with The Real Deal…What Matters.