Corporate & Business Law
Formation, governance, investment and exit — the legal spine of a company through every stage of its life.
Detailed overview
We act as standing counsel to founders, boards and investors, from the first incorporation document through to a sale or restructuring. Most of our corporate work is repeat work: we learn how a business actually operates, then keep its legal architecture in step with it.
The team handles the full transaction cycle — structuring, due diligence, negotiation, documentation and completion — alongside the quieter, continuous work of good governance: board procedure, shareholder relations, statutory filings and the internal policies that keep a company defensible when something goes wrong.
Where a matter touches tax, competition, employment or data, we bring those specialists in from the start rather than bolting their advice on at the end. Clients receive one coordinated position, not four separate opinions.
- Company formation, conversion and group restructuring
- Shareholders' agreements and constitutional documents
- Mergers, acquisitions and asset transfers
- Venture capital, private equity and debt financing rounds
- Joint ventures, partnerships and consortium arrangements
- Board advisory, governance frameworks and directors' duties
- Legal due diligence and disclosure exercises
- Corporate secretarial and statutory compliance support
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
You are raising capital and need documents an investor's counsel will accept without a fight.
Founders are joining or leaving and the equity position must be settled cleanly.
You are buying or selling a business and need diligence that finds problems before the other side does.
Your governance has not kept pace with your growth, and the board is exposed.
The attorneys handling corporate & business law.
Closing a stalled Series B over disputed warranty terms
- The challenge
- The parties had stopped negotiating and started defending positions. The company also had two historical issues — an incomplete IP assignment chain and an unregistered option grant — that had not yet been disclosed and would have been discovered.
- The outcome
- The round closed nineteen days after we were instructed, on the original headline valuation. The warranty cap and survival period settled close to the company's opening position, and the two remediated issues were disclosed without any price adjustment.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“We came to SALAW mid-way through a funding round that had stalled over warranty language. Sarah rewrote the position in two days and got both sides to a signature. What stayed with me was that she told us plainly which of our asks were not worth fighting for.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
- Property & Real Estate LawTitle, transactions, development and possession — for owners, developers, landlords and lenders.
- Employment & Labor LawContracts, policies, restructuring and workplace disputes — advising employers and senior executives.
- Banking & Finance LawLending, security, recovery and financial-sector regulation for lenders and borrowers alike.
Speak to the corporate & business law team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.