We strive to be your trusted legal and business counselor. Our mission is to provide the professionalism of a big law firm, the business savvy of an in-house general counsel, at efficient value-oriented rates.
What distinguishes us from other boutique law firms is our mix of partner-level big law firm experience and executive-level in-house general counsel experience. We take a business-first approach to lawyering, providing practical and efficient legal and business advice and counsel in support of our clients’ strategic and operational goals.
We have extensive experience representing buyers and sellers as they plan and execute strategic corporate transactions. These transactions include:
We work closely with our clients and collaborate with their in-house and outside deal teams, including accounting, tax, banking, financial and other advisors.
We serve as general counsel for businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to larger, more established companies. Our legal services are tailored to meet the unique business needs of each client. Small and mid-size companies often engage us to handle all of their legal work and to coordinate their use of specialists, such as employment, tax or litigation attorneys.
Larger companies often engage us to handle specific projects where they lack expertise or capacity. For these matters, we are more cost efficient than hiring another full- or part-time attorney or engaging a large law firm.
In every engagement, large or small, we work closely with our clients to develop an intimate working knowledge of their operational and strategic goals and build trusting relationships with senior management and key stakeholders. As a result, we not only deliver legal solutions, but become trusted business counselors.
Many start-up and growth stage clients desire a flexible General Counsel arrangement to handle their day-to-day legal needs and manage the engagement of specialists attorneys, such as engaging and managing litigation attorneys to handle a lawsuit. The time we devote a client’s legal needs can evolve and grow with the client’s business. The better we get to know a client, the more efficient we become because we don’t spend time “getting up to speed” on each new matter.
Larger clients often need support on a project-basis to fill knowledge or capacity gaps on their in-house team. We strengthen your existing team when you are not ready or do not need to add additional full-time attorneys.
In every engagement, large or small, we work closely with our clients to develop an intimate working knowledge of their operational and strategic goals and build trusting relationships with senior management and key stakeholders. As a result, we not only deliver legal solutions, but become trusted business counselors.
We strive to provide exceptional, responsive, affordable legal services that meet the unique needs of each client.
We offer a variety of value-focused alternative fee arrangements and work with each client to develop the right fee arrangement tailored to their preferences and the type of engagement.
Some clients prefer the budget certainty of a fixed fee arrangement, while others may prefer fees tied to the success or failure of a transaction.
Our hourly rates are often lower than rates for comparably experienced in-house or big law attorneys. We offer additional discounts for fixed fee engagements and volume commitments. For transactions, we offer “busted deal discounts” and success bonuses to align our interests with our client’s transaction risks and costs.
Mel is the firm’s founder and managing partner. Mel founded the firm after working for many years as an M&A partner in a big law firm and as General Counsel of a for-profit company and a non-profit trade association.
His goal for the firm is to use cost-efficient fee arrangements that allow him to work closely with the business leaders at his clients on a regular basis for an extended period of time, much like a full-time, in-house general counsel would. This allows him to develop long-term working relationships with his clients, get to know their business, and understand their goals, objectives, priorities and tolerance for risk. This results in better legal work that fits the unique needs and preferences of each client. Ultimately, Mel wants to be your trusted and valued legal and business counselor.
We strive to be your trusted legal and business counselor. Our mission is to provide the professionalism of a big law firm, the business savvy of an in-house general counsel, at efficient value-oriented rates.