Vircon Legal managed the angel financing round of Favorites Group, Inc, the owner of the Favoritan consumer mobile product. The round closed on 10 January 2020. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed at the request of the parties.

Cross-border angel rounds — a US-incorporated holding company with Turkish operating roots taking angel capital — sit in a structurally distinct category from purely domestic seed transactions. The documentation has to operate consistently across two corporate-law frameworks: Delaware-side architecture covering share class design, founder vesting and option pool sizing, alongside Turkish-side operating considerations covering employment, IP assignment and operational continuity through the change in shareholder composition. Getting these workstreams aligned at closing — rather than retrofitting them later as the company moves toward institutional venture capital — is what allows the company to enter a Series A diligence process without expensive remediation.

Vircon Legal managed the round end-to-end across both jurisdictional layers: transaction structuring, subscription and shareholder documentation, governance design, founder commitments, cross-border tax considerations, and the post-closing corporate housekeeping required across both the US holding company and the Turkish operating entity. The work coordinated with US counsel where needed to ensure the Delaware-side documentation cleanly reflected the agreed terms while the Turkish-side operating company maintained the operational continuity that the consumer mobile product required.

For more on our cross-border startup and angel-round practice, see our US Company Formations & Flip-Ups and Startup Law pages.

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  • Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu

    Mümtaz is the Managing Partner of Vircon Legal, which he founded in 2016. He advises founders, investors and operators on financing rounds, M&A, cross-border incorporations and regulated verticals — including crypto-asset infrastructure, fintech and games — bringing a former startup founder's perspective to every engagement.

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Published: 10 January 2020
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