The goal and purpose of this Playbook are to provide startup founders and startup lawyers alike with a quick reference guide to key issues they may experience in foreign jurisdictions. Let’s face it, the modern startup is not concerned with owning the local geography, but instead wants to step out onto the world stage as early as possible. Oftentimes, this means that the need for foreign legal advice comes well before the resources which their institutional, established competitors can bring to bear. Enter the Playbook. This is not meant as a definitive guide to everything you’ll need to know about legal systems and local market realities in any given jurisdiction, but it is intended to help triage key issues. Whether you’re using this guide as a lawyer advising a startup client, or as a startup company yourself, our hope is that the Playbook will help you to better assess potential risks and to ask the right questions. And if you have need of a local legal expert, well now you’ve got a list of lawyers from around the world that deal with startups just like yours, that are ready and willing to help.