Practitioner notes from the external general counsel's seat — on contracts, compliance, scaling, employment and protecting what you build, in Miami and across borders.
Here is the pattern I have watched repeat for fifteen years. A founder meets their first real lawyer at the worst possible moment. The deal is already on the table. The dispute is…
Read article → (10 min)Here is something that surprises people. The contracts that end up in a fight are almost never the ones the parties were arguing about when they signed. They are the ones nobody…
Read article → (10 min)Here is a thing nobody tells you when you start a company. The setup that lets four people move fast is the same setup that quietly puts the business at risk at forty, and breaks…
Read article → (10 min)A term sheet is the best and worst day in a startup’s legal life. Best, because someone has decided you are worth backing. Worst, because the diligence that follows is about to…
Read article → (11 min)Here is the trap with employment liability: it does not grow in line with the number of people you hire. It grows faster. The exposures that actually hurt you are patterns, not…
Read article → (11 min)The most expensive reorganizations I have seen all went wrong the same way. The lawyer designed the structure. The accountant booked it. And the tax adviser got shown the result…
Read article → (11 min)No company is ever fully ready to go international. The customer shows up in another country before you have built the structure to serve them. The opportunity arrives before the…
Read article → (10 min)When a contract goes to dispute, the outcome is usually decided by clauses the parties barely discussed when they signed. Not the price. Not the scope. Not the deliverables, the…
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