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The March 4, 2010 Federal Budget introduced some targeted measures of interest to companies in the technology industry, as well as private equity and venture capital funds investing in technology companies.

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through - e-Commerce 2010 (published in August 2009; contributing editor Robert Bond - Speechly Bircham LLP). For further information please visit www.GettingTheDealThrough.com.

The National Venture Capital Association (US) has prepared various model venture capital documents for use in the industry, including a term sheet (the “NVCA Term Sheet”). This paper covers the NVCA Term Sheet from a Canadian perspective and outlines the key terms for a venture capital investment drawing on the provisions of the NVCA Term Sheet.

There are protections and issues which a vendor should consider when drafting a maintenance or support agreement and also when negotiating and agreeing to changes requested by a purchaser. This paper will review some of the issues that you should consider when commencing drafting or review of a maintenance and support agreement and the questions that you should ask.

This paper will focus particularly on the western Canadian venture capital market and provide an outline of a typical venture capital investment in a Canadian company including the provisions that a venture capital will ask for in a term sheet and subsequent definitive documentation.