Spring 2026
Professor(s):
Jason Bass (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 5:30p-7:30p T Location:
Course Outline: This course will introduce the student to both Venture Capital and Private Equity Deals. The instructor for this course is Jason Bass, former Director of Finance at Mercury Fund (established in 2003, the oldest VC firm in the state of Texas) and current VP of Finance at Genesis Park (Credit and Debt Private Equity Fund based in Houston, TX). The ideal student for this course is 2L or 3L that has an interest in VC or PE and working with either entrepreneurs or early-stage investors. Focus of the course is mostly transactional with a couple guest lectures on special topics (Fund Formation, Intellectual Property, Tax). Guest lecturers for this course include attorneys from Gunderson Dettmer LLP , Dwyer Murphy Calvert, LLP, Porter Hedges LLP, and other practicing attorneys.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Required: Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Fourth Edition: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson)(ISBN:978-1119594826). Recommended: The Power Law: Venture Capital and the making of the new future (Sebastian Mallaby)(ISBN: 978-0525559993)