Contracts · M&A · Fractional General Counsel · Strategic Advisory · California

Counsel from a lawyer who has run the business, not just advised it.

I review, draft, and negotiate contracts and transaction documents for businesses at a fixed fee, serve growing companies as their general counsel on a fractional basis, and advise leadership teams and boards on governance, risk, and the decisions that shape the company, including what AI changes about how organizations run. The work is grounded in eight years in the in-house seat at a global manufacturer and eight years as an owner-operator in energy.

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One lawyer who knows the whole business.

There is a point where a company's legal needs stop being occasional and start being continuous, and what it needs then is not another firm on call but one lawyer who knows the business and carries that knowledge forward. That is the core of my practice: contracts, compliance, governance, and risk handled with the continuity of a general counsel, without the cost of the full-time seat.

Around that core sits the counsel work that does not fit inside a contract review: advising leadership and boards on structure, accountability, and the decisions ahead, including what AI means for how the organization is built and who owns its decisions. Energy and manufacturing are my home ground, having served as in-house counsel to a global manufacturer and as an owner-operator in oil and gas, and the judgment travels across industries.

How I work with companies

Contracts and M&A

Fixed-fee review, redlining, drafting, and negotiation for a specific agreement and a real deadline, from vendor, customer, services, and supply contracts to M&A strategy and the documents that carry a transaction, with a plain-language memo on what matters and what to push back on.

Fractional General Counsel

The ongoing legal function for companies that need a general counsel's judgment without a full-time hire. Contracts and negotiation, legal strategy, governing documents, policies, procedures, and processes, compliance, and disputes and outside counsel management, grounded in years in the in-house seat at a global manufacturer and as an operator in energy.

Strategic Advisory

Counsel to leadership and boards on governance, structure, and the decisions that shape the company, including what AI changes about where work happens and where accountability sits when it does.

Formation and Structuring

For founders and owners starting or reorganizing a business: entity formation, governance documents, and the structural choices, tax implications included, that are far easier to get right at the start than to fix later.

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For business owners and executives, I also handle estate and succession planning that protects what you have built. If you would like to talk about it, get in touch.

An operator's view, a lawyer's lens.

I have been an attorney for eighteen years, advising businesses on contracts, compliance, and governance, and those years include eight as in-house counsel to a global manufacturer and eight co-founding and running an energy venture. I have sat in the operator's chair and the in-house counsel's seat, and the work I do for clients is informed by having been responsible for the decisions, not just advising on them. I also read and review complex matters in English, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.

In-house, global manufacturing

In-house counsel at CTC Global: legal strategy, international contracting, and cross-functional compliance.

Owner-operator, energy

Co-founded and ran an oil and gas venture, negotiating its purchase and sale agreements, leases, and contractor agreements and responsible for legal, regulatory, and environmental compliance.

Harvard Law School Executive Education

Leadership in Corporate Counsel, 2022: governance, risk, and strategic leadership for the general counsel role.

Admitted to the California Bar, 2008

J.D., New England Law | Boston. B.S. in Business Administration and Information Systems, CSU Northridge.

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If your company needs a general counsel's judgment as a steady part of the team, or you are working through a decision that will shape the business, let's talk.

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