How to Avoid Becoming a Horror Story
Tricks for Small Business Owners
Fritz Battcher — Holland & Hart
Wednesday, September 28
Speaker: Noon - 1 pm
Networking: 11 am - Noon
Fritz Battcher
With the fall season fast approaching, so do jack-o’-lanterns, goblins, and ghosts. Fritz Battcher hands out a treat for small business owners: the tricks to preventing your business from becoming a horror story.
Fritz will discuss a collection of legal problems faced by small and growing companies. He will discuss common issues, and ways to avoid and solve common mistakes facing small companies.
When it comes to being a small business owner there are key legal matters to consider:
Why a company should be an entity.
Why it’s important to enter into shareholder/partner agreements with your other owners.
Concerns and issues relating to accepting investments from friends/family/investors.
How to protect your company IP and trade secrets.
Read the fine print! Contract issues.
Fritz Battcher is a Partner at Holland & Hart, LLP. Fritz helps clients navigate the complex strategies of mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, and other corporate matters.
Working closely with entrepreneurs, Fritz helps emerging business and their owners bring the idea of a company into reality. He provides sophisticated guidance at every stage of development from choosing the right corporate entity, to ensuring compliance with standards and regulations, and strategic counsel to evaluate the risks and challenges of capital financing.
Before joining Holland & Hart, Fritz practiced at a large, international law firm in Chicago, and was a shareholder at Hale Lane in Reno, Nevada. He began his legal career as a law clerk for Chief Judge Howard D. McKibben of the United States District Court, District of Nevada.
Reno-Sparks Convention Center
4590 S Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502 (map)
Wednesday, September 28, Noon - 1 pm
11 am – Noon: Networking
Noon - 1 pm: Speakers
• $39 – NCET members
• $49 – General Admission