Areas of Practice
Business Formation, Organization, Operation & Succession
We guide founders through every stage of the business lifecycle - from initial entity formation to growth, restructuring, and succession planning. Whether you're launching a new venture, bringing on co-founders, or preparing for long-term leadership transitions, we ensure your legal foundation is built for clarity, flexibility, and strategic growth.
Our services include selecting the right entity type, drafting and negotiating operating agreements, bylaws, founder and shareholder agreements, and establishing clear internal structures and governance protocols. As your company scales, we advise on key operational matters like equity compensation, board dynamics, compliance, and exit strategies.
We don’t just form companies - we help build businesses that are legally sound, investor-ready, and designed to evolve.
Well-drafted policies are essential to maintaining legal compliance, protecting company culture, and reducing risk as your team grows. We help startups and small businesses develop clear, practical policies tailored to their size, industry, and values.
Our support includes drafting employee handbooks, remote work and hybrid workplace policies, codes of conduct, confidentiality and data protection policies, equity and compensation guidelines, and board and committee governance protocols. We also advise on implementing compliant internal processes that support equity, accountability, and long-term sustainability.
Whether you're hiring your first employee or formalizing internal procedures for a scaling team, we ensure your policies align with your company’s goals - and grow with you.
Company Policies
Contracts are the backbone of every business relationship - and we ensure yours are clear, protective, and built to serve your long-term goals. We draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements with a focus on risk mitigation, enforceability, and strategic alignment.
Our work includes founder agreements, service provider contracts, client and vendor agreements, NDAs, licensing arrangements, partnership deals, and investor documents. We tailor every contract to the unique needs of your business, industry, and growth stage - whether you’re a first-time founder or managing an established company.
With a balanced approach that protects your interests while preserving business relationships, we help you close deals with confidence and clarity.
Contract Drafting and Negotiation
We support founders and companies through the legal complexities of raising and managing capital. Whether you're bootstrapping, taking in angel investment, issuing SAFEs or convertible notes, or preparing for a priced equity round, we provide clear, strategic counsel to help you structure deals that support your company’s growth and protect its long-term value.
Our services include reviewing and negotiating term sheets, preparing and managing financing documents, advising on capitalization structure and dilution, and ensuring compliance with securities laws. We work closely with founders to make sure they understand their options, negotiate with confidence, and remain aligned with their company’s mission and milestones.
From your first investment to your next round - or exit -we help you navigate corporate finance with clarity and control.
Corporate Finance
Strong governance isn’t just for large corporations - it’s essential for startups and growing companies that want to attract investors, scale responsibly, and prepare for exit. We advise founders, boards, and leadership teams on how to structure and operate their companies with integrity, transparency, and long-term resilience.
Our services include drafting and maintaining bylaws, operating agreements, board resolutions, charters, and corporate policies; advising on fiduciary duties and conflicts of interest; and ensuring that corporate actions and equity issuances are properly authorized and documented. We also help companies stay compliant with corporate law, and investor expectations.
From board meetings to major transactions, we ensure your corporate house is always in order - so you’re ready for whatever’s next.
Corporate Governance
Hiring your first team member - or growing your workforce - comes with critical legal obligations. We help startups and small businesses navigate employment law with clear, compliant, and founder-friendly guidance that protects both the company and its people.
Our services include drafting employment agreements, offer letters, independent contractor agreements, IP and confidentiality agreements, and employee handbooks. We also advise on classification issues, wage and hour compliance, onboarding and offboarding procedures, equity compensation, and founder-employee transitions.
Whether you're bringing on employees, contractors, or advisors, we ensure your employment practices are legally sound, scalable, and aligned with your company’s values.
Employment Matters
Fractional General Counsel
For startups and scaling businesses that need ongoing legal support but aren’t ready for a full-time in-house attorney, we offer Fractional General Counsel services tailored to your stage, structure, and goals.
As your outside GC, we provide responsive, business-minded legal guidance across all aspects of your operations - contracts, compliance, fundraising, governance, employment, IP, and more. We act as a thought partner to founders and executives, helping you anticipate risks, close deals efficiently, and stay legally aligned as you grow.
You get trusted legal counsel on call, without the overhead of an in-house team - so you can focus on building your business with confidence.
We help founders and growing companies proactively identify and manage legal risk through clear contracts, strategic business structures, and thoughtful governance practices. From early-stage formation decisions to investor negotiations and day-to-day operations, our goal is to protect your company - and your personal assets - without slowing your momentum.
Our liability and risk work includes reviewing and drafting agreements, advising on fiduciary duties, limiting exposure through well-crafted indemnification and limitation-of-liability provisions, and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. Whether you're onboarding a team, engaging contractors, or raising capital, we help you move forward with confidence and clarity.
Liability & Risk
Whether you're monetizing intellectual property, protecting proprietary content, or structuring strategic collaborations, we help clients navigate licensing with clarity and control. We draft and negotiate licensing agreements that safeguard your rights, reflect your business model, and create scalable revenue opportunities.
Our licensing work includes content, brand, software, technology, and product licensing across a range of industries - from creative services and education to SaaS and consumer goods. We focus on clean, enforceable terms around ownership, exclusivity, usage rights, royalties, sublicensing, and termination.
Whether you're the licensor or licensee, we ensure your licensing agreements align with your business goals and protect what you’ve built.
Licensing
Staying compliant isn’t just about checking boxes - it’s about protecting your company, your investors, and your momentum. We help businesses navigate their ongoing regulatory and corporate compliance obligations with clarity, precision, and proactive guidance.
Our services include drafting and filing formation documents, annual statements, corporate amendments, 83(b) elections, securities filings, and maintaining clean corporate records. We also advise on state and federal compliance issues related to entity governance, employment, fundraising, and operational transparency.
From your first filing to your next financing, we make sure your business stays legally compliant - and ready for what’s next.