Legal Support – ACT Smart Innovation Hub

Berytech is a leading organization in the Entrepreneurial Eco-system in Lebanon, that aims to provide a conducive environment for the creation and development of startups, through incubation, business support, counseling, funding, networking, and company hosting, hence taking part in the economic revival of the country, participating in wealth and job creation, and retaining graduates and high-level skills in Lebanon.

The Accelerator Program's mission is to nurture and grow proof of concepts, and prototypes that share three common characteristics:

1. An innovation with scientific or technological focus in the agri-food sector.
2. The possibility to scale beyond the local market
3. The potential to create sustainable job opportunities locally

The Accelerator Program seeks a lawyer to deliver the following requirements:

• A three-hour power session addressing the topics of Co-Founder Agreement, and Startup Legal Registration (including the process and the types of legal entities and the evaluation framework for each)
• Three one-on-one sessions for 12 startups (total of 36 sessions) to assist them on legal matters specific to their startup, such as co-founder agreement preparation and review, legal registration plan, contract review or other as needed. The duration of each session is 45 minutes. The sessions will be delivered between October 2023 and February 2024.

Key Deliverables:

• PowerPoint Presentation for the workshop.
• Co-founder agreement template

• Corporate lawyer with more than 8 years of practical experience
• Experience working with early-stage startups