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WilmerHale Advises Magnefy in Pre-Seed Financing
8.6.2025
Magnefy, a Stanford spin-out pioneering an edge AI-powered, high-frequency magnetic sensing platform for real-time predictive maintenance of critical power assets, recently announced that it has closed an $1.5 million pre-seed round.
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Use of the LLC Holding Company Structure by Life Sciences Companies
8.4.2025
Life sciences companies (particularly early stage companies) may be attracted to an LLC holding company structure as an alternative to a typical C corporation structure to maximize both the purchase price paid by a future acquiror of a drug development program and the after-tax proceeds realized by the company’s investors upon a sale.
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