Counsel for companies — and the people who build them.
We advise startups, emerging-growth companies, established owner-led businesses and family enterprises through formation, growth, financing, acquisitions, leadership transitions and exit.
Legal Architecture
The higher you build, the stronger the foundation must be.
A company may begin with a founder, a handshake or a single customer. What supports the business at the beginning may not support the business it intends to become.
We help clients build deliberately — establishing the foundation, reinforcing the framework and preparing each stage to support the next.
WHO WE SERVE
Built around the company, not a stage or an industry label.
Our company-side practice spans the innovation economy and the essential industries behind modern growth.
Startups
The decisions you make now will be priced into every round
Founder equity, early hires, SAFEs and first customer contracts set terms the company will live with for years. We help founders build those foundations deliberately, then carry the company through financing, growth and an eventual exit.
4 Practice areas→Private Companies
The business has outgrown the way it was first put together.
Established and owner-led companies often carry agreements and ownership arrangements that made sense years ago. We help owners bring that framework in line with the business they run today, from governance and key contracts through acquisitions, succession and sale.
5 Practice areas→Digital Agencies
You hand over valuable work every week. Are the terms keeping up?
Agencies run on master services agreements, statements of work, contractors and client data, often signed faster than they are read. We help agency owners put sound terms behind the work, so ownership, liability and payment are settled before a dispute makes them urgent.
3 Practice areas→Consumer Brands
A brand is only as valuable as the contracts behind it.
Consumer and beverage brands grow through distributors, co-packers, retailers and investors, and every one of those relationships carries terms. We help founders and owners structure them to protect the brand’s value, from early financing through a sale to a strategic acquirer.
4 Practice areas→Essential Industries
Investors have noticed the businesses AI cannot replace.
Trades, contractors and design firms are drawing new interest from buyers and private equity, often before their owners have a lawyer of their own. We provide the outside counsel larger companies take for granted: sound contracts, clear ownership and a plan for what comes next.
4 Practice areas→SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Experience from formation through transformative transaction.
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Served as longtime corporate and strategic counsel to The 86 Company, the premium spirits business behind Fords Gin, advising on multiple equity and bridge financings, capitalization and shareholder matters, corporate governance, board-level strategy, and the evaluation of strategic acquisition proposals. Represented the company in its 2019 sale to Brown-Forman Corporation, the global spirits company behind iconic brands including Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve.
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Represented a consumer-brand founder in private-capital matters, including a proposed majority-sale negotiation and subsequent restructuring-related advice.
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Represented a fan manufacturer in its approximately $500 million sale to a private equity firm.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Representative matters may include work performed at prior law firms.
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Build the next stage on stronger ground.
For startups, growth companies, established owners and ongoing outside general counsel relationships.