M&A + Strategic Transactions
M&A and Strategic Transaction Counsel for Emerging Companies
For founders, operators, startups, emerging companies, investors, and growth companies preparing for acquisitions, exits, strategic partnerships, restructurings, and complex commercial transactions.
Based in New York. Working with clients across the U.S. and internationally.
How Jason Helps
Support strategic transactions from early issue-spotting through diligence, negotiation, documentation, approvals, and closing.
Help companies understand how corporate records, commercial contracts, equity history, investor rights, and governance affect transaction leverage.
Work with founders and operators on the legal and business friction that appears when a company is buying, selling, partnering, restructuring, or preparing for exit.
Where This Fits
When to Reach Out
- You are evaluating a potential acquisition, sale, merger, asset deal, strategic partnership, restructuring, or exit path.
- A buyer, investor, strategic partner, or counterparty has started diligence or asked for corporate, contract, equity, or governance records.
- You want to understand what needs cleanup before a transaction process becomes time-sensitive.
Representative Work
- Acquisition readiness, diligence preparation, corporate cleanup, and transaction process support.
- Mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, strategic partnerships, cross-border transactions, and complex commercial arrangements.
- Term sheets, letters of intent, disclosure schedules, closing deliverables, approvals, consents, and post-signing workstreams.
- Founder, investor, board, and stockholder issues that affect transaction timing and execution.
FAQ
When should a startup prepare for M&A?
Before a buyer is deep in diligence. Contracts, equity records, approvals, IP assignments, side letters, and customer terms are easier to clean up before the process is moving quickly.
Can Jason help before there is a signed letter of intent?
Yes. Pre-LOI work can include readiness review, diligence preparation, issue mapping, negotiation strategy, and understanding what the transaction would require.
What slows down startup M&A?
Common issues include messy cap tables, missing approvals, unclear IP ownership, restrictive customer contracts, investor rights, consent requirements, and unresolved governance questions.
Is M&A work separate from outside general counsel work?
Not always. The best M&A preparation often comes from outside GC discipline before the transaction appears: clean records, coherent contracts, and governance that matches the business.
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Contact
Discuss a potential matter.
Email Jason or schedule an intro to talk through what you are building, financing, negotiating, buying, selling, or cleaning up.