Startup Center

Incorporation, SAFEs, cap tables and everything after.

Practical legal guidance for founders building in the U.S.

Zecca Ross Law Firm helps founders build companies with clean legal foundations — from incorporation and founder equity through contracts, cap tables, fundraising readiness and M&A.

We work with U.S. and international founders who want more than automated paperwork. Whether you're forming a Delaware C-Corp, reviewing documents after incorporation, cleaning up a cap table, preparing investor-ready contracts or selling your company, the firm brings business judgment alongside the legal work.

Topics

Where founders usually start.

Each topic covers what the decision involves, what it costs to get wrong, and when it’s worth bringing in counsel.

01

Entity formation

Delaware C-Corp versus LLC

State qualification

EIN and banking

02

Founder equity

Vesting and cliffs

83(b) elections

IP assignment

03

Fundraising

SAFEs and convertible notes

Priced rounds

Investor-ready documents

04

Cap tables

Clean-up and reconciliation

Option pools

Dilution modelling

05

International founders

Delaware flips

Tax and visa coordination

Cross-border structure

06

Contracts and M&A

Commercial agreements

Employment and equity

Diligence and exit

Who We Help

Founders who want judgment, not just paperwork.

Forming from outside the U.S.

Delaware C-Corp formation, flips from an existing foreign entity, and the tax and visa questions that come with them.

Raising a first round

SAFEs, convertible notes and priced rounds, drafted and negotiated rather than pulled from a template.

Cleaning up after fast growth

Cap tables that drifted, missing 83(b) filings, contracts signed before anyone read them.

Preparing for diligence

Getting the corporate record into the state an investor or acquirer expects to find it.

Not sure which of these applies to you?

A short consultation is usually enough to work out what needs doing now and what can wait.

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