Professional Experience

Paul Economon is a corporate, contract, business transactional and technology attorney with an extensive background in providing both legal and business support to the small to medium enterprise sector, with a strong focus on high technology.  He has represented numerous privately-held, public, emerging and established companies by providing them with:

• Corporate formation and governance documentation and assistance
• Capital raising and financing agreements
• General (in-house counsel) business representation
• Product and services agreements
• Technology and software development and licensing agreements (from enterprise to SaaS)
• Network, systems and facilities security testing and services agreements
• Distribution and reseller agreements
• Website (e-commerce) development and hosting agreements
• Government prime and subcontracts
• Sales and support agreements
• Employee compensation, confidentiality and non-competition arrangements
• Counsel on all manner of commercial negotiations and disputes.

Mr. Economon has extensive transactional experience with various mergers & acquisitions, asset and stock purchases, corporate and entity reorganizations and recapitalizations, as well as the sale/purchase of securities and other financial facilities,  and the accompanying compliance with state and federal securities laws.  His experience with venture capital transactions comes from multiple perspectives - from being outside counsel for the company or the investing entity, to being in-house counsel for both at various times, as well as a being the business owner of a venture backed company.

His present and former clients span the spectrum of hi-tech, from various high profile software development companies, to IT security experts and VARs, RFID ventures, online educators, federal contractors, mobile telecomm plays, healthcare innovators, green technology companies, online businesses, as well as venture funds and their portfolios.

Mr. Economon is a member of and the Chief Legal Counsel for iMPACT Ventures Capital Group, LLC, an early stage venture group based in Northern Virginia, and is an equity holder/investor in a number of local start-up entities.

Seeking a broader base of legal experience to draw from for his growing client base,  Mr. Economon joined Rimon in October of 2011 from the firm he founded, Economon & Associates, PC.  Prior to that, he was a partner in the DC area law firm of Koltun & King, P.C. and has held five in-house positions ranging from General Counsel to COO during his professional career.