Accelerating stock options

By Rick Colosimo / May 8, 2015 / Comments Off on Accelerating stock options

Someone recently asked me about stock options: How do they generally work when stock hasn’t vested and the company undergoes a change of control? Do the options immediately vest? Are they lost? The typical model is that the vested options are either exercised, net exercised, or paid as if net exercised. In short, they’re paid…

You're using the form wrong if….

By Rick Colosimo / December 2, 2013 / Comments Off on You're using the form wrong if….

Here’s an excerpt from a website terms of service I just read: [Please confirm whether users can submit content such as comments, blog posts, etc.] In order to make our Services more dynamic and useful, we may allow you to post comments or reviews or other Submissions to the Services and our forums. The bracketed…

A path to better drafting

By Rick Colosimo / September 11, 2013 / Comments Off on A path to better drafting

This post by Ken Adams on improvements to the Series Seed documents (Github versions) triggered a lengthy response from me. It’s no secret that I’ve been fond of the project since its earliest days (see this post on the “simple Series A” and this one on “check the box forms,” my idea from around 2001…

Why the "best" law journals are mostly worthless

By Rick Colosimo / July 19, 2013 / Comments Off on Why the "best" law journals are mostly worthless

This WSJ law blog post references a Georgetown constitutional law professor who thinks we should get rid of the Constitution because, effectively, he’s smarter than 200+ years of Americans and will get it exactly right.  You should know that law journals are not edited by professionals, and law review articles are not subject to anything you would…