Outside General Counsel
Ongoing senior counsel for companies without an in-house legal team, from everyday contracts to board decisions, financings and transactions.
Most growing companies reach a point where legal questions arrive every week, but a full-time general counsel is not yet justified. Decisions get made without advice, or the advice arrives too late to shape them.
As outside general counsel, the firm serves as the company’s senior legal adviser on a continuing basis. The lawyer who learns the business is the lawyer who handles its matters.
What we handle
- Day-to-day legal questions from owners and management
- Contract review and negotiation
- Board and owner decisions, consents and records
- Employment, contractor and equity-grant questions
- Coordination of other counsel when a matter requires it
- Preparation for financing, diligence and sale
How we work
We agree on scope at the outset and stay close enough to the business to flag issues before they become problems. When a matter needs litigation, tax or regulatory counsel, we bring in the right lawyers and keep the work coordinated.
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Represented The 86 Company, owner of Fords Gin, in its $22 million sale to Brown-Forman Corporation in 2019.
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Represented a consumer-brand founder in private-capital matters, a proposed majority-sale negotiation and subsequent restructuring-related advice
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Manufacturers of a high-profile brand fan in a $500M deal with a private equity firm. The fan manufacturer is the leading manufacturer of high-volume, low-speed industrial fans, lights, and control systems. With approximately 500 patents and patent applications worldwide, as well as hundreds of trademarks, the company places an emphasis on energy efficiency for industrial, commercial and residential use.The fan manufacturer is the leading manufacturer of high-volume, low-speed industrial fans, lights, and control systems. With approximately 500 patents and patent applications worldwide, as well as hundreds of trademarks, the company places an emphasis on energy efficiency for industrial, commercial and residential use.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Representative matters may include work performed at prior law firms.