Startups & Emerging Growth
Build the structure that can support the ambition.
Formation, founder arrangements, venture financing, governance, equity incentives, commercial contracts, acquisitions and outside general counsel.
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.
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.
Established & Owner-Led
Strengthen the business before the pressure arrives.
Governance, ownership planning, management structures, acquisitions, strategic contracts, private-equity readiness and sale preparation.
Essential Industries
Counsel for the businesses that build, power and maintain the economy.
Electrical, HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, construction, industrial services, logistics, manufacturing and related operating businesses.
Family Enterprises
Protect the business while preparing the next generation.
Succession, governance, ownership transitions, management incentives, strategic growth and coordination with tax and estate advisers.
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.
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FoundationFormation · Ownership · Governance
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CapitalVenture · Debt · Private Investment
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ExpansionContracts · Talent · Acquisitions
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TransformationSuccession · Private Equity · Exit
HOW WE HELP
Business counsel across the full lifecycle.
Senior-level advice on the immediate issue that preserves long-term flexibility and value.
Outside General Counsel
Ongoing advice for founders, owners, boards and leadership teams navigating growth, risk and strategic decisions.
Formation, Ownership & Governance
Entity structures, founder arrangements, partner rights, boards and the framework supporting control and accountability.
Venture, Growth & Private Capital
Seed through growth-stage financings, strategic investments, debt and private-capital transactions.
M&A & Strategic Growth
Acquisitions, rollups, joint ventures, recapitalizations and preparation for private-equity investment or sale.
Commercial Transactions
Customer, vendor, licensing, supply, distribution, partnership and other mission-critical agreements.
Succession & Exit
Next-generation leadership, management incentives, ownership transitions and transaction readiness.
Experience from formation through transformative transaction.
Selected experience.
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Represented hundreds of startups and emerging-growth companies as outside general counsel across financing, governance and strategic matters.
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Represented Vine from formation through its acquisition by Twitter.
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Lead counsel for an issuer in a $125 million technology-focused SPAC initial public offering.
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Lead counsel in a multimillion-dollar rollup of operating businesses across the United States.
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Build the next stage on stronger ground.
For startups, growth companies, established owners and ongoing outside general counsel relationships.