Whatever’s in front of you, we’ve done it before.
Eight practice areas, one team. If you already know what you need, start here, or tell us what’s going on and we’ll point you to the right one.
Mergers & acquisitions
Buying, selling, or merging: diligence, negotiation, and close. A senior attorney leads your matter from the first call to the close, with the team behind them.
- Due diligence
- Deal structuring & negotiation
- Buy-side & sell-side representation
- Closing
General counsel
Outside general counsel on retainer: one attorney who knows your business and is there for whatever comes up next.
- Governance & compliance
- Risk identification
- Strategic guidance
- Ongoing contract review
Contracts
Every agreement your business runs on: drafted, reviewed, and negotiated so it protects you, not just the other side.
- Drafting & review
- Contract management
- NDAs
- Sales & service agreements
- IP & software licensing
Employment
The paperwork and the hard calls: offer letters, policies, classification questions, and the separations that need to be done right.
- Agreements & policies
- Employment law compliance
- Contractor vs. employee analysis
- Restrictive covenants
- HR policies
Tax
The tax side of every business decision: planning and deal structuring, coordinated with your accountant.
- Tax planning
- Compliance guidance, coordinated with your accountant
- State & local taxation
- Transaction structuring
Startup
The legal foundation early-stage companies need: formation, financing, and IP protection, built to hold as you grow.
- Formation & incorporation
- Financing structure & negotiation
- IP protection
- Annual compliance
Corporate
The structural work that keeps a company sound: formation, governance, compliance, and the sales or purchases that change its shape.
- Entity formation & management
- Strategic & business planning
- Business purchases & sales
- Annual compliance
- M&A
Intellectual property
What makes your business yours: trademarks searched, filed, and protected, plus the licensing deals that put your IP to work.
- Trademark search & clearance
- Applications & renewals
- Licensing & assignment agreements
Industries we serve
Every sector has its own pressure points. Pick yours and see how we work in it.
Proactive counsel for a fast-moving, competitive field: licensing and sales agreements, contract management, employment terms, and protecting the brand you are building.
One matter or an ongoing relationship. Your call.
We’re a business law firm. Plenty of clients come to us for one matter, some at a fixed fee, some hourly, depending on the shape of the work, and that’s the whole relationship, until it isn’t. Any of the areas above can be handled either way: scoped in a conversation, with fee terms set before the work starts.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about how we work and what it costs. Here’s how it actually works.
General counsel is a company's chief lawyer: deeply immersed in the business, working across every department, reporting to the CEO. Pact gives you that function on a fractional basis. Companies that can't justify the expense of a full-time general counsel get the same benefit through an engagement with us.
We focus on continual business counsel, not one transaction at a time. We look at the problem in front of you and at what it means for the business a year from now.
Work with Pact on a defined project, an hourly matter, or an ongoing general counsel subscription. We agree on scope and fees before any work begins.
Plenty of companies need ongoing legal judgment without building or expanding an in-house legal department, and many wrongly conclude that means they don't need the function at all. You don't know what you don't know, and that's especially true in law: avoiding a problem is always cheaper than repairing one. The common workaround is to staff the legal function with owners and key officers and call outside counsel for discrete matters. That puts responsibility outside management's expertise, and it costs you in inefficiency, expense, and risk you didn't see coming.
Because we're regularly involved, we develop real knowledge of your business and trusted relationships with your key people. Like in-house counsel, we can use an address on your email system, an extension on your phone system, and whatever else makes us part of your management team.
It depends on the plan we lay out, but commonly: contract drafting and negotiation, customer and vendor agreements, human resources issues, intellectual property protection and documentation, and board and corporate governance matters.
Pact's general counsel arrangements give your business a dedicated attorney for ongoing work, with regular check-ins and access to Pact Workspace. We scope each arrangement to the business and agree on the fee before we start. (This is the law firm's service. It's separate from the Pact Works Counsel plan.)
No. We offer a wide array of services outside the subscription model. You can secure consistent assistance through a subscription, or choose a fixed-fee or hourly engagement.
That's exactly why the consultation is free. An attorney reviews your current needs and long-term goals and points you in the right direction: one-time services or ongoing, whichever actually fits.
Businesses of all sizes, from startups to global corporations, with services tailored to what each company actually needs.