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Venture Capital & High Growth Companies

Building a company is hard. The legal side of it shouldn’t make it harder.

We work with founders and investors from day one — incorporation, equity splits, early financing — through growth rounds, secondary transactions, and eventual exit. Our goal is straightforward: handle the legal work cleanly and explain what you’re signing in plain English.

We’ve done enough early-stage company work to know what founders lose sleep over. Cap tables that will hold up when your next investor does diligence. Equity plans that incentivize the team without creating a tax problem three years from now. Financing documents that are fair — not structured to favor the investor at your expense. And an attorney who responds the same day when something comes up, because it always does.

WHAT WE HANDLE
  • Business formation and entity structuring

  • Founder agreements and equity splits

  • Convertible notes and SAFEs

  • Preferred stock financings (Seed through Series C and beyond)

  • Stockholder and voting agreements

  • Employee equity plans (ISOs, NSOs, restricted stock)

  • Phantom equity plans

  • Investor rights agreements

  • Secondary transactions

  • Acquisition and merger transactions

  • Day-to-day business

WHO WE WORK WITH
  • First-time founders
  • Serial entrepreneurs
  • Growth-stage companies at every stage of the VC stack
  • VC funds investing in early and growth-stage companies