Lead Faculty
Don Buder is a corporate transactional attorney and strategic legal advisor to early stage and middle-market businesses, including a large concentration of privately-held and publicly-traded food and beverage companies. He has significant experience in the areas of venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, supply agreements, joint venture agreements, and other commercial transactions.
All Online
Registration opens mid-July
Date: Starting October 9, 2023
(welcome + orientation 1st week & 5 weeks of course content)
Price: $149 USD
Special Rate: $476 USD for enrolling in all four Online Courses: The Building Blocks of Brand Development, Insights from Food Experience Design, The Basics of Food Venture Formation + Financing, and Building Ethical + Responsible Food Supply Chains.
CIA alumni prices are available. For more information, contact our Admissions Team at admissions@foodbusinessschool.org or 1-866-242-9876.
Start-up leaders and early stage entrepreneurs looking to set their new food ventures up for success. Whether you’re off the ground with your new idea but need to button up your financial structure, or seek to match a presentation-ready business plan with a strong legal blueprint—this course will help answer your legal questions and help you avoid the common mistakes made by first-time entrepreneurs. Appropriate for all types of food related ventures.
The Basics of Food Venture Formation + Financing provides essential guidance and frameworks necessary to set up any food-related venture for success. This foundational course will help you ask the questions you need to consider in the planning phase of your business.
Taught by practicing food industry lawyer, Don Buder, you’ll receive valuable and actionable legal guidance on the following topics:
A partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLC, Don Buder is a corporate attorney and strategic legal advisor to early stage and middle-market businesses, including privately-held and publicly-traded food and beverage companies. He has significant experience in the areas of venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, supply agreements, joint venture agreements, and other commercial transactions.