General Counsel Services

The firm works with its clients as part of the management team, just like an in-house General Counsel. We partner with clients to solve problems in a variety of areas facing businesses today.

Outsourced General Counsel
Small companies have little budget to hire an in-house counsel, and instead rely on expensive outside counsel to handle the legal side of business transactions. This firm partners with companies to ensure affordable yet continuous contact with its clients, the best way to truly understand the client's needs. Click here for a description of the firm's outsourced general counsel program. Alternatively, the firm works with clients on a project basis in a variety of subject matter areas.

Intellectual Property
Protection of intellectual property rights is essential to maximizing a business' value and minimizing the threat presented by competitors. This firm helps clients determine which intellectual property rights are key for protecting its business, and create an intellectual property protection strategy. Furthermore, we assist clients in finding a qualified professional to file the appropriate applications. Filing for protection of intellectual property is only the first step to effective protection. We also assist clients by drafting and negotiating intellectual property licenses, enforcing client intellectual property rights against others, determining the risk of infringement of third-party rights, and supporting litigation counsel on intellectual property issues.

Internet Law
Businesses large and small recognize the value and importance of establishing a presence on the internet. The firm will help you craft your site privacy policy, terms & conditions, advertising agreements, and other internet-based agreements, tailored to your site functionality, business objectives and intended internet audience. Furthermore, we can assist you in negotiating and drafting digital content licenses.

Contracts, Strategic Partnerships
Structuring meaningful relationships with customers, suppliers, consultants, and other partners is key to the survival of any company. We assist our clients in structuring these relationships, negotiating fair terms, and preparing the resulting agreement in clear and concise language. Furthermore, we work with clients to develop commercial terms of sale, warranties, disclaimers, nondisclosure agreements, and other contracts and agreements.

Corporate
One of the most important decisions that a business can make is which type of business entity to use. Choosing the right business entity, and properly maintaining the business entity, can help protect the individuals involved from personal liability for acts of the business. The firm can assist clients in choosing a business entity, creating the entity, and converting one entity to another. Furthermore, the firm offers support and counsel to company management and boards of directors on minimization of risk through maintaining proper minutes, governance, and prudent company policies.

Employment
Employees are a company's greatest asset, but can also be a source of potential risk. We help our clients anticipate and minimize these risks by creating employment agreements, standardized forms, and developing company policies. We counsel company management and human resources professionals on legal issues and employee disputes as they arise in the workplace. When the need arises for a specialized employment agreement, such as with an executive or key technical employee, we assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating these custom arrangements.

Mergers & Acquisitions
Whether on the buying or selling side of an M&A transaction, understanding and defining what is being purchased or sold is essential. In the early stages of a proposed transaction, our firm can assist in due diligence, intellectual property valuation, term sheet creation, and negotiation. In the later stages of the transaction, we can prepare agreements and assist clients in integrating the legal and intellectual property facets of the two merged entities.

Venture Capital
For privately funded companies, fundraising can seem like a daunting task. Our firm assists clients in this process by preparing term sheets, negotiating fair terms, and preparing understandable and complete agreements. We also assist our privately funded clients in better positioning themselves for eventual purchase or initial public offering, by performing intellectual property reviews, creating consistency in company obligations through development of form agreements, compiling and reviewing existing company agreements, and understanding sources of risk. Being prepared can help a company maximize its value to investors, acquirers or shareholders.