Venture Capital Law and Finance: Cases and Materials: Theory, Business, Law, and Policy

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Thomas C Klein

Venture Capital Law and Finance

Cases and Materials: Theory, Business, Law, and Policy

Thomas C Klein

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Outskirts Press
17 November 2025

Corporate finance; Entrepreneurship; Company, commercial & competition law; Financial law

This foundational casebook written by a professor and 30+-year practitioner in venture capital provides comprehensive coverage of venture capital law, entrepreneurial finance, and the public policy frameworks that shape innovation-driven investment. Designed for use in law schools, business schools, and by educated professionals, this volume integrates legal doctrines, transactional materials, and economic analyses to prepare students for practice in the entrepreneur and venture capital ecosystem. Through the use of carefully selected and edited cases, statutes, and actual documents in use in the field of venture capital, the book offers deep insights into the formation, structuring, and regulation of start-up and venture-backed enterprises. The book is suitable for law school and business school courses in venture capital, entrepreneurism, start-ups, start-up and venture capital finance, and innovation policy.

By: Thomas C Klein
Imprint: Outskirts Press
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 1.678kg
ISBN: 9781977284198
ISBN 10: 1977284191
Pages: 738
Publication Date: 17 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Klein has practiced start-up, venture capital, securities, and mergers and acquisition law for over three decades in Silicon Valley. Now General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems Limited, Tom practiced for 19-1/2 years at the leading national venture capital law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., having worked with all of the founding partners and principally throughout his career there with veteran venture capital attorney John B. Goodrich, and then Tom worked for another five and a half years at the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig LLP, before going in-house to Persistent Systems, an India-based public company listed on the National Securities Exchange in India. Tom was outside counsel to Persistent for many years including when Persistent negotiated its Series B Preferred Stock venture capital investment from leading Silicon Valley venture capital investors in 2005, which was the largest Silicon Valley venture capital investment into an India-based corporation in that year. Tom has also been an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University School of Law for over 20 years having taught legal problems of start-up businesses, and presently teaching business organizations, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to his law practice, Tom grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, Swarthmore College, and The Hotchkiss School.