Practice Areas
Our practice is focused on six core areas where legal quality has direct commercial consequences. Each mandate is scoped for strategic clarity, disciplined execution, and practical implementation.
Intellectual Property
Trademark prosecution, brand architecture, copyright strategy, and measured enforcement for businesses that treat IP as a core asset class.
We advise founders, creative teams, and in-house counsel on how to build IP positions that are commercially useful, not merely decorative. Trademark work begins with clearance, filing strategy, and scope design, then continues through examination responses and portfolio stewardship. Copyright advice covers ownership chains, contractor language, license boundaries, and practical registration timing. When infringement appears, we design proportionate enforcement plans that preserve leverage while reducing collateral risk. The objective is to protect brand equity without creating unnecessary conflict or operational drag.
Common scenarios
- Launching a new brand family and needing a filing sequence across key classes.
- Receiving office actions and requiring strategic responses rather than template arguments.
- Managing infringing marketplace listings, paid social impersonation, and domain misuse.
- Resolving ownership ambiguity in creative assets developed by mixed employee/contractor teams.
- Preparing coexistence agreements where overlap exists but litigation is avoidable.
Typical deliverables
- Trademark clearance memoranda with confidence ratings and filing recommendations.
- Domestic and selected cross-border filing plans with prosecution calendars.
- Copyright ownership and licensing audit matrix.
- Enforcement playbooks: notice templates, escalation paths, and evidence standards.
- Portfolio governance memo for leadership and finance stakeholders.
How we work
- Diagnostic: map marks, goods/services, jurisdictions, and existing vulnerabilities.
- Design: prioritize filings and internal controls aligned with launch timelines.
- Execute: prosecute, register, monitor, and enforce with staged escalation.
- Maintain: periodic review tied to product expansion and channel growth.
Risk notes
- Filing too broadly can create examination delays and avoidable objections.
- Unstructured takedown activity can weaken credibility with platforms and counterparties.
- Ignoring chain-of-title issues may compromise enforcement or transaction diligence.
- Over-assertive claims without evidence can create defamation or unfair competition exposure.
Corporate & Transactions
Corporate structuring and transaction counsel for closely held companies, growth-stage teams, and private owners who need precision and discretion.
Corporate work at a boutique level should be practical, contextual, and partner-led. We advise on entity formation, governance hygiene, founder alignment, and transaction readiness long before a financing or sale process begins. Our transaction counsel emphasizes risk allocation, diligence readiness, and clean internal records. For acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships, we focus on drafting discipline and negotiation clarity rather than unnecessary document volume. The goal is to support durable outcomes and reduce post-closing disputes.
Common scenarios
- Founder teams documenting equity splits, vesting mechanics, and decision rights.
- Private companies preparing for minority investments or strategic financings.
- Buyer-side diligence for asset or stock acquisitions involving IP-heavy targets.
- Reworking governance documents after leadership transitions or ownership changes.
- Negotiating side letters, observer rights, and protective provisions.
Typical deliverables
- Incorporation and governance document suites.
- Board and shareholder action packages with process checklists.
- Deal term analyses and negotiation issue lists.
- Diligence request frameworks and red-flag summaries.
- Closing sets and post-closing implementation trackers.
How we work
- Structure: define legal architecture and governance objectives.
- Prepare: clean records, surface risks, and align stakeholder expectations.
- Negotiate: focus on value drivers, control rights, and downside protections.
- Close and implement: translate terms into operational execution.
Risk notes
- Informal founder arrangements often fail under financing pressure.
- Inadequate minutes and approvals can impair deal enforceability.
- Overlooking IP assignments in diligence is a recurring value leakage point.
- Aggressive timeline assumptions without legal sequencing increase closing risk.
Commercial Contracts
Drafting and negotiation of revenue-driving agreements with enforceable protections, operational clarity, and realistic remedies.
A strong commercial contract should read clearly, allocate risk coherently, and support business execution after signature. We help clients design playbooks for procurement, SaaS, distribution, manufacturing, licensing, and enterprise services agreements. Rather than maximizing legal complexity, we draft for operational use by sales, finance, and product teams. We also support contract remediation where legacy templates create recurring disputes or margin erosion. Consistent drafting standards improve cycle time and reduce negotiation fatigue.
Common scenarios
- Revising master service agreements that over-promise service levels or indemnities.
- Negotiating enterprise customer terms with demanding security and liability positions.
- Drafting vendor agreements with clear acceptance criteria and termination rights.
- Structuring reseller/distributor contracts across mixed channels.
- Repairing template inconsistency across regional sales teams.
Typical deliverables
- Core templates with optional clauses and fallback language.
- Negotiation matrix for legal, sales, and finance alignment.
- Clause library covering IP, confidentiality, liability, and data processing.
- Contract playbook with escalation thresholds and approval logic.
- Training session materials for internal users.
How we work
- Inventory: review existing templates and negotiation pain points.
- Standardize: create clause positions by risk tier and deal size.
- Negotiate: run high-impact deals with issue discipline.
- Govern: track deviations and update standards quarterly.
Risk notes
- Undefined service commitments create avoidable breach exposure.
- Unlimited indemnities can distort deal economics.
- Weak change-order language drives scope creep and payment disputes.
- Inconsistent precedence clauses can nullify negotiated protections.
Disputes & Enforcement
Pre-dispute strategy, structured negotiation, litigation support, and enforcement planning with a disciplined evidence-first approach.
Disputes are won before hearings through fact architecture, document control, and strategic pacing. We advise on early case assessment, demand strategy, settlement positioning, and litigation readiness. Where formal proceedings are necessary, we coordinate with specialist litigators while maintaining commercial alignment for leadership teams. Enforcement matters often involve parallel channels, including platforms, payment providers, domain registrars, and courts. Our role is to keep pressure calibrated and objectives explicit.
Common scenarios
- Counterparty breach involving exclusivity, quality control, or payment defaults.
- Brand infringement escalating beyond voluntary compliance.
- Post-termination misuse of confidential information or trade secrets.
- Disputed ownership of social handles, creative assets, or domains.
- Cross-border enforcement where local counsel coordination is required.
Typical deliverables
- Early case assessment memo with probability-weighted pathways.
- Evidence preservation and chain-of-custody protocol.
- Demand letters and settlement architecture frameworks.
- Escalation map spanning non-judicial and judicial channels.
- Post-resolution controls to reduce repeat exposure.
How we work
- Assess: establish facts, objectives, and acceptable outcomes.
- Position: craft written posture and negotiating anchors.
- Escalate: pursue proportionate remedies in the right sequence.
- Resolve: settle, adjudicate, and institutionalize lessons learned.
Risk notes
- Reactive communications can prejudice later litigation positions.
- Incomplete evidence capture weakens leverage.
- Overly broad claims may trigger counterclaims and reputational exposure.
- Ignoring enforcement cost ceilings can undermine commercial outcomes.
Privacy & Data
Operational privacy counseling and policy architecture for modern businesses handling customer, employee, and partner data.
Privacy programs are most effective when legal requirements are translated into operational controls that teams can actually use. We advise on privacy notices, consent practices, vendor data terms, retention schedules, and incident response preparation. Our work is designed for implementation across marketing, product, HR, and customer support. We prioritize risk ranking so organizations address high-impact issues first rather than trying to solve everything at once. The result is better compliance posture and cleaner commercial negotiations.
Common scenarios
- Updating policies and notices after product expansion or new tracking practices.
- Negotiating data processing terms with enterprise customers.
- Building intake workflows for access/deletion requests.
- Establishing incident response roles and communication protocols.
- Reviewing cross-border transfer exposure and vendor safeguards.
Typical deliverables
- Privacy gap assessment and prioritized remediation roadmap.
- Policy suite: external notices, internal handling standards, retention guidance.
- Data processing addenda and vendor negotiation positions.
- Request-handling and incident-response operating procedures.
- Quarterly compliance review template for leadership.
How we work
- Map: inventory data flows and accountability owners.
- Prioritize: rank legal and operational risk by impact and likelihood.
- Implement: draft artifacts and embed workflows.
- Monitor: review metrics, update controls, and document decisions.
Risk notes
- Copying generic policies can create representations your business does not meet.
- Unvetted trackers or scripts may conflict with stated disclosures.
- Vendor onboarding without data terms increases downstream incident risk.
- Delayed response practices can turn routine requests into regulator concerns.
Reputation & Content Takedowns
Lawful, ethics-forward responses to impersonation, defamatory claims, unauthorized media use, and harmful digital brand abuse.
Reputation matters demand careful judgment: clients need decisive action while staying within legal and ethical boundaries. We advise on notice strategy, platform escalation, domain complaints, and targeted litigation readiness where justified. Our process is evidence-led and avoids tactics that could be construed as suppression of legitimate criticism. We help clients distinguish unlawful content from protected speech and choose remedies accordingly. The objective is durable reputation protection grounded in legal merit.
Common scenarios
- Impersonation accounts diverting customer trust and transactions.
- Unauthorized use of names, likenesses, or brand assets in paid content.
- False factual allegations causing measurable commercial harm.
- Coordinated abusive content campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Domain-based fraud and typo-squatting affecting customer communications.
Typical deliverables
- Risk-screened takedown and notice packages with evidentiary exhibits.
- Platform escalation dossier and communication chronology.
- Defamation and false-light issue assessment memo.
- Domain complaint packages and registrar correspondence.
- Executive briefings for crisis communications alignment.
How we work
- Triage: classify content type, harm profile, and legal basis.
- Evidence: preserve URLs, captures, logs, and witness records.
- Engage: pursue platform, registrar, and counterparty channels in sequence.
- Escalate or close: litigate where warranted; otherwise document resolution.
Risk notes
- Attempting to remove lawful criticism can backfire reputationally and legally.
- Poor evidence preservation weakens platform and court remedies.
- Threat-heavy communications may entrench opposition.
- Treating all online harm as identical leads to inefficient, low-yield action.