Dror Futter

Dror Futter specializes in advising startups, investors, and small to medium-sized companies, particularly in the technology sector.

Mr. Futter’s practice has four main focus areas:

1. Venture Finance/Corporate: Handling equity and debt financing rounds, corporate formations, and employee equity plans. He has extensive experience in corporate spinouts.
2. M&A: Representing both sellers and buyers in M&A transactions, with a focus on cost-effective solutions for small and mid-market deals.
3. Transactional IT & IP: Managing various transactions, including software licenses, online terms and conditions, SaaS agreements, outsourcing agreements, and patent licenses.
4. External General Counsel: Drawing on his background as a former General Counsel, Mr. Futter provides business-focused legal counsel to fast-growing companies, serving as external general counsel for those with sophisticated legal needs.

Mr. Futter’s fifteen years of experience as in-house counsel includes positions with Vidyo, Inc., a venture-backed videoconferencing company, and New Venture Partners, a venture fund focused on corporate spinouts. Prior to that, Mr. Futter was Counsel to the CIO of Lucent Technologies, as well as supporting parts of its sourcing organization.

Prior to joining Rimon, Mr. Futter was a partner at the McCarter & English law firm, where he was part of the Corporate Department and Venture Capital Practice Group.

Mr. Futter serves on the legal advisory board of the Angel Capital Association and previously served on the Model Forms Drafting Group of the National Venture Capital Association.  He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Stevens Venture Center of the Stevens Institute of Technology and a Mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center, and for the Jewish Entrepreneur.  He also serves on the New Jersey – Israel Commission.

Mr. Futter is a 1986 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a 1989 graduate of Columbia University School of Law. He also earned an Executive MBA in 1999 from the American Electronics Association Executive Institute of Stanford University.