Business counsel for the decisions that move your company forward.
We represent companies and their owners in what it takes to build a business, including formation and structure, contracts, financings, tax, and the sale of the business. Tell us what’s in front of you, and a senior business attorney will tell you what it needs, what it doesn’t, and what it will cost.
Pact is a boutique business law firm. We represent companies and their owners in what it takes to build a business, including formation and structure, contracts, employment, financings, tax structuring, joint ventures, managing risk, and the sale of the business.
Serious experience.
Boutique terms.
Pact is led by a founder with more than twenty years of practice. A senior attorney leads your matter from the first call to the close, with the team behind them, so nobody has to re-learn your business. Every engagement starts with a conversation about what you actually need, then fee terms, fixed or hourly, agreed before the work begins.
Transactions
Buy side, sell side, financings, equity.
Negotiation
The contracts that carry real exposure.
Employment
Executive matters and the difficult ones.
Fractional GC
Ongoing counsel for companies without an in-house lawyer.
Start with what happened this week.
Not with a practice area. Answer a few quick questions and get a recommended starting point: bring in counsel, get a fixed-fee attorney review, or handle it yourself in Pact Works.
What happened?
Pick the closest fit. Precision comes later.
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Select oneDo not run this off a template. We start with a readiness review (the contract, corporate, and IP gaps that shave your price), then run diligence and negotiation through close. A senior attorney leads your matter from the first call to the close, with the team behind them. Scope and fee terms are agreed before we start.
A master agreement, a channel deal, a supplier you can't afford to lose. We take the drafting and the negotiation, or sit behind you while you take it. Either way you know the fee terms before the first markup goes back.
Outside general counsel for the contracts queue, the employment questions, the board and investor work. Ongoing counsel from an attorney who knows your business. We scope the relationship to your business and agree on fees before work begins.
Run it through the contract-review playbook first. You work an 18-point checklist (scope, fees, auto-renewal, termination, indemnity, liability caps and more) and rate each clause as favorable, needs review, or unfavorable. Then decide: sign, negotiate, or bring us in.
Routine paperwork for a small team: offer letters, contractor agreements, IP assignment, and policies that match how you actually operate, with the classification test up front.
Often, yes: for a first pass, a summary, or a plain-language explanation. Not for the clause where your liability is capped, and not for anything a counterparty's lawyer drafted on purpose. We publish exactly where the line is.
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.
Human review for AI-generated documents.
AI can produce a useful first draft. It can’t know your negotiating leverage, confirm the right law applies to you, or take responsibility for the result. Send it to a Pact attorney for a focused review before you rely on it.
Standard-looking clauses
A confident tone
No accountability
Where your liability actually sits
What you can push back on
What the draft quietly gave away
The work, in practice.
An acquisition, closed months ahead of schedule
We led an acquisition from structuring through close, and closed months ahead of the six-month timeline the client had been quoted.
View case study →We love working with Katie. She clearly has a great deal of experience with early-stage companies like ours. They helped us understand what we needed, completed key tasks, and played a trusted advisor role throughout. Super easy to work with and very responsive.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Representative matters.
- Acquisition by an executive search firm, closed months ahead of the quoted timeline
- Equity incentive plan for a financial services business
- Outside general counsel to a consumer products company through rapid growth
- Buy-side acquisition of a regional trucking company, including representation and warranty insurance and post-closing purchase price adjustments
- Sale of a closely held manufacturing company, including special indemnity negotiation and Section 280G analysis
- Contract playbooks and a multi-entity formation program for a multi-location operator
- Sale of a family-owned waterfront business and its real estate
- Acquisition of a pediatric practice from a hospital system in bankruptcy
- Corporate practice of medicine and MSO structuring for a multi-state medical group
- Board restructuring and outside investment for a technology company
- Employment agreement negotiation for a senior executive
- Trademark clearance, registration, and office-action response for consumer brands
Client names are withheld. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Meet your legal team.
A senior attorney leads your matter from the first call to the close, with the team behind them.
Attorneys
Sharlotte Pernice
Practice team
We publish the judgment, not just the services.
Katie writes The Legal 80/20 for business owners and operators: where legal judgment changes the outcome, and where it doesn’t.