30-day legal audit
Contract stack, cap table, IP chain, employment posture. You see the gap analysis and the prioritized fix list inside one month.
Fractional General Counsel for venture-backed startups
Legal leadership without the full-time partner.
We embed with Series A through C founders to install the contracts, equity hygiene, and risk posture that turn the next diligence into a formality, not a fire drill.
Counsel to companies backed by
AccelSequoiaGreylock
BessemerFounders Funda16z
What we have closed out for founders.
6 weeksto clean diligence posture
Lattice Signals
Rebuilt the contract stack, cleaned the cap table, resolved three open customer disputes. Series B diligence closed without a legal redline holding it up.
42%fewer sales-cycle legal escalations
Halcyon Health
Wrote a customer-facing redline playbook, trained four AEs on it, killed the three contract terms causing 80% of legal friction. Average deal close time dropped 11 days.
2 weeksfrom claim letter to settled
Northstrand Compute
Inbound IP claim from a competitor with a thin patent. We answered with prior art and a settlement framework. Closed on terms favorable to the company, no litigation.
Embedded, weekly, diligence-ready.
Weekly cadence
Standing 60-minute CEO check-in, Slack-resident through the week, monthly risk review with founders and finance.
Diligence mode on demand
When the round opens we shift to daily cadence: data room curation, redline runway, board consents, closing checklist.