Corporate
Companies are systems of ownership, control, capital, relationships, and risk.
We build the legal architecture beneath them.
From formation through financing, transactions, growth, and exit, we advise founders, investors, and privately held businesses on the decisions that shape enterprise value.
01
Business Formation & Governance
Build the company for where it is going.
Formation is easy. Structuring ownership is not.
Who controls the company? Who shares in the upside? What requires consent? What happens when a founder leaves, an investor enters, someone dies, or an offer arrives? Those questions get expensive when answered too late.
We structure LLCs, corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, operating and shareholder agreements, voting rights, equity, buy-sell provisions, and affiliated entities, and we restructure arrangements that no longer match the business.
Clear ownership. Clear authority. Clear economics.
02
Contracts & Commercial Transactions
Good contracts preserve good business.
Every important commercial relationship eventually meets friction. The contract decides what happens next.
Payment slips. Scope changes. Someone underperforms. Expectations diverge.
We draft and negotiate customer, vendor, service, management, licensing, distribution, confidentiality, and joint venture agreements. Define the relationship. Allocate the risk. Protect the value. Make the exit clear.
For businesses with recurring contract volume, we build the system: templates, standards, and negotiation positions that move deals faster without giving away leverage.
03
Mergers, Acquisitions & Business Sales
The headline is price. The deal is everything underneath it.
Buying or selling a company means allocating value, liability, control, risk, and the future.
We represent buyers, sellers, founders, and investors in privately held acquisitions, asset and equity sales, strategic investments, and other change-of-control transactions, from letter of intent through diligence, closing, and transition.
When a founder knows an exit is coming but the company is not ready, we start earlier. Clean the records. Resolve ownership. Organize contracts. Build the diligence room.
Good exits are engineered before there is a buyer.
04
Business Finance & Investment
Capital is never just money.
It comes with economics, sometimes control, and always consequences.
We advise companies, founders, sponsors, and private investors on debt, equity, convertible instruments, private offerings, preferred structures, notes, and security interests. Private raises also implicate federal and Oklahoma securities law, so the structure of the offering matters alongside its economics.
How much capital? At what valuation? With what control? What happens in the next round, and at exit?
Compliance sets the boundaries. Strategy determines what you build inside them.
05
Outside General Counsel
Legal strategy should live close to the business.
Not every company needs a legal department. Every growing company needs legal judgment.
We serve as outside general counsel to businesses that need ongoing counsel without building an internal function: a critical agreement in the morning, an investor proposal in the afternoon, a dispute before it becomes litigation.
Over time, context compounds. We learn the company, the people, and the pressure points.
Advice gets faster because we are never starting from zero.
Corporate
Build the company for where it is going.
Formation, capital, a contract that matters, an exit on the horizon, or a general counsel who already knows the business. Start with the decision in front of you.
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