‘US Venture Capital Contracting Goes Global: Perspectives from Asia and Latin America’ – ECGI-Bocconi-LawFin Workshop Series on ‘The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital’

The Bocconi University Department of Legal Studies and the DFG LawFin Center at Goethe University in Frankfurt, together with ECGI, are pleased to announce the 6th LawFin Workshop—the second in the series jointly organised with the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University and under the sponsorship of ECGI. 

The workshop will take place fully online (Zoom) on 18 March (13:30–18:00 CET) and will focus on:

'U.S. Venture Capital Contracting Goes Global: Perspectives from Asia and Latin America'

Building on the discussion of VC contracting under European legal regimes in our first workshop, this event turns to Asia and Latin America to examine what VC deals look like and how they operate in practice. The aim is to move beyond high-level claims of convergence and provide a granular account of contractual form versus contractual function. A further focus is whether—and how—market participants contract around domestic constraints through offshore holding-company structures and other bypassing techniques, potentially making local corporate law less binding in practice for parts of the start-up ecosystem.

The programme combines academic analysis with a practitioner- and policymaker-facing discussion on cross-border structuring techniques and their implications. Three research papers will be presented and discussed, followed by a roundtable with representatives from academia, the VC and entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the legal profession.

The first Bocconi-LawFin-ECGI VC contracting workshop was held on 4 December 2025. Subsequent events will focus, inter alia, on 'Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds across the Globe' and 'Legal Culture and Private Ordering: What Can VC Contracting Teach Us?' The series aims to explore PE and VC intermediaries’ structure and operations through an interdisciplinary lens and to trace how VC contracting practices travel across jurisdictions, thus deepening our understanding of how formal law and informal norms jointly shape a foundational pillar of modern innovation finance.

Registration is required here.

Further information is available here and here.

For queries, please contact research@lawfin.uni-frankfurt.de.