MDG Boston Event: Structuring Your Startup for Success: Legal Insights from Corporate Counsel
When
March 5, 2026
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Where
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. and Online
55 Old Bedford Road
Lincoln,
MA
01773
For in-person registrants, a light lunch of sandwiches and chips will be provided
As a startup founder, you’re busy building product, hiring talent, and driving growth—but the legal and corporate decisions you make early on can have lasting consequences. From entity selection to equity structure, missteps in corporate governance often surface later as costly distractions during fundraising, acquisitions, or leadership transitions
Join MDG Boston on March 5th, either in-person or online, for a practical, founder-focused session with Joe Ramadei, Partner at Gennari Aronson, LLP and MDG Boston Board Member, as he breaks down the legal fundamentals every early-stage company should get right from day one.
What You’ll Learn
Joe will share real-world insights from advising startups and growing companies, including:
- Choosing the right business entity to support growth, fundraising, and exit goal
- Founder agreements and equity compensation—how to avoid common pitfalls that create conflict later
- Best practices for working with advisors and boards, using fiduciaries and industry experts as partners and sounding boards
- Key legal considerations investors expect founders to understand before writing a check
Who Should Attend
- Early-stage founders and co-founders
- CEOs and executives at growing startups
- MDG members advising or supporting startup companies
- Anyone preparing for fundraising or long-term growth
Why Attend
You’ll walk away with actionable guidance you can apply immediately—plus a clearer understanding of how to protect your company, align stakeholders, and position your startup for long-term success.
Agenda
- Presentation
- Q&A
About the Speaker: Joseph Ramadei – Partner, Gennari Aronson, LLP & Board Member, MDG Boston
Joe Ramadei is a seasoned corporate and transactional lawyer with a well-earned reputation for finding collaborative solutions in challenging negotiations. Joe’s work with companies spans the entire corporate life-cycle, including entity selection, general corporate representation and counseling, licensing, venture capital financings, initial public offerings, securities compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.
Joe advises both public and private companies in a wide range of industries, including enterprise software and Saas, medical devices, healthcare and information technology, outdoor advertising and surety insurance, professional services, media, and other industries. He has substantial experience in structuring and negotiating venture capital financings, ranging from seed stage to later series rounds, and also mergers & acquisitions, including both buy-side and sell-side transactions. Joe also advises a number of early stage companies and entrepreneurs on company formation and equity allocation as well as strategies for financing and equity compensation.
Prior to joining Gennari Aronson, Joe was an associate at major law firms in Boston and New York City, including Goodwin Procter and Chadbourne & Parke, where he worked on a variety of corporate, licensing and securities matters for private and publicly held clients.
Joe holds a J.D from Cornell Law School, cum laude, and a B.A. in American Studies from Cornell University.