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I am a Contracts and Mergers & Acquisitions Attorney with more than 25 years of diverse legal and business experience. My practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, contract dispute resolution, and a broad range of business-related legal matters. I have extensive experience managing and closing transactions across a variety of industries, including SaaS, IT, eCommerce, franchises, agencies, and food services. I take a practical, business-oriented approach to transactions, helping clients efficiently navigate complex deals from initial structuring and negotiation through execution and closing. My combined legal, litigation, financial, and business experience allows me to deliver strategic, efficient, and practical solutions tailored to my clients’ objectives, whether in deal negotiations, contract structuring, dispute resolution, or complex business transactions

Corporate, M&A & Securities Lawyer | Managing Attorney, DP Counsel PLLC Practice Areas: Business Formation | Commercial Contracts | Contract Drafting & Review | Mergers & Acquisitions | Venture Capital | Securities Offerings | Franchise Law | Employment & Equity Compensation | Intellectual Property | Cross-Border Transactions About/Bio: I represent companies, investors, and fund sponsors in corporate transactions, commercial contracting, and private securities matters, from entity formation and early-stage financings to acquisitions, exits, and ongoing strategic counsel. As Managing Attorney of DP Counsel PLLC, I help clients structure transactions clearly, allocate risk thoughtfully, and move deals forward with documentation that is practical, enforceable, and aligned with business objectives. My practice includes both day-to-day commercial matters and more complex transactional work, including venture financings, private offerings, M&A deals, fund-related documents, and cross-border structuring. What I Do: Corporate & Commercial • Entity formation and structuring for corporations, LLCs, and limited partnerships • Operating agreements, shareholder agreements, and governance documents • Commercial contract drafting, review, and negotiation • Vendor, distribution, manufacturing, SaaS, and licensing agreements • Employment, consulting, confidentiality, and equity compensation agreements • Outside general counsel support for growing companies Securities & Private Capital • Private offerings under Regulation D and Regulation S • Private placement memoranda, subscription agreements, and investor documents • SAFE, convertible note, and priced equity financings • Venture capital and private fund formation matters • Fund governing documents and offering document packages • Securities law analysis for private capital raising transactions Mergers & Acquisitions • Letters of intent and term sheets • Stock purchase, asset purchase, and merger agreements • Due diligence coordination and transaction support • Disclosure schedules, closing documents, and post-closing matters • Earnouts, rollover equity, indemnity structures, and related deal terms • HSR, CFIUS, and related regulatory issue spotting for qualifying transactions Digital Assets & Emerging Technologies • Federal-law digital asset and token securities analysis • Entity structuring for blockchain and Web3 ventures • Digital asset fund and operating structures • AML/KYC documentation support and regulatory issue spotting Franchising • Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs) • Franchise agreements • Master franchise and area development agreements • Franchise structuring and registration coordination Real Estate Transactions • Commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions • Real estate joint ventures and syndications • Commercial lease drafting and negotiation • Real estate investment structures and related offering documents Cross-Border & International • U.S. market entry and entity structuring for international clients • Delaware and multi-entity holding structures • Cross-border transaction planning and documentation • Coordination with foreign counsel and tax advisors on cross-border matters Why Clients Hire Me: • Big-law-level drafting with boutique responsiveness • Practical, business-focused advice grounded in execution reality • Clear scoping and transparent fee arrangements • Experience across financings, acquisitions, fund formations, and cross-border transactions Typical Projects: • Contract drafting and negotiation • Entity formation and governance packages • Private offering document suites • Venture financing documentation • M&A transactions from LOI through closing • Fractional or outside general counsel support Industries Technology | SaaS | FinTech | Digital Assets | E-commerce | Healthcare | Real Estate | Food & Beverage | Professional Services

Skilled in the details of complex corporate transactions, I have 15 years experience working with entrepreneurs and businesses to plan and grow for the future. Clients trust me because of the practical guided advice I provide. No deal is too small or complex for me to handle.

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I am a New York-barred attorney and the founder of Ariel Herzog Law PLLC, a corporate practice focused on business law and on the privacy, security, and AI issues that arise in commercial contracting. I began my career in the corporate group at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York, working in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and general corporate matters. I handle transactions across the full lifecycle — letters of intent, purchase agreements, due diligence, disclosure schedules, ancillary documents, and closing — as well as commercial agreements, entity formation, and corporate governance. My practice also involves data processing agreements, security addenda, vendor terms, and AI and data diligence, including helping companies resolve enterprise contracts stalled in a customer's security review. I am also the founder of Quarterback, an AI platform for managing M&A transactions.

Since 2003, I have served as outside General Counsel and Litigation Counsel. Each client receives strategic representation laser focused on advancing the client's position. Clients include venture capital firms, closely held companies, business owners, founders, entrepreneurs, investors, international firms, staffing firms, professional athletes, federal government agencies, financial institutions, real estate companies, professionals, brokers, not for profit foundations, art galleries, art collectors, and creatives. I am an AV Preeminent peer review rated attorney, which is the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards. I have also been selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in the area of business litigation - featured in The NY Times. I was a Name Partner at an AV rated midtown law firm before launching an independent law practice offering legal services at the highest levels.

I'm a corporate attorney with nearly two decades of transactional experience, focused on high-volume, time-sensitive contract review and negotiation. Through my firm, Cunning Law, LLC, I review and negotiate confidentiality, standstill, and non-circumvent agreements and non-reliance letters for private equity, venture capital, real estate, and asset-management clients as part of the Ontra legal network.

Sajal Waheed is a New York-admitted intellectual property attorney and founder of Solavere West PLLC. Her practice focuses on U.S. trademark prosecution, portfolio management, brand protection, and trademark disputes, with experience advising domestic and international businesses across technology, e-commerce, consumer products, and emerging brands. She counsels clients on trademark clearance and registrability, federal applications, substantive Office Action responses, post-registration matters, assignments, licensing-related issues, and TTAB oppositions and cancellations. Sajal also works with international IP agencies and businesses requiring U.S. counsel, managing matters from initial strategy through USPTO prosecution and enforcement-related proceedings. Her broader experience includes commercial contracts, corporate legal matters, compliance, copyright enforcement, and high-volume legal review. She brings a practical, commercially focused approach to legal matters, with an emphasis on clear advice, efficient execution, and responsive client service.

I'm a partner at Gilbert Law Group, a labor and employment firm with offices in Melville and Manhattan. My practice centers on the employer-employee relationship, and I represent private and public sector clients on both sides of it. I also draft, review and negotiate the business contracts that companies and individuals rely on every day. On the employment side, I draft and review employee handbooks and workplace policies, employment and executive compensation agreements, severance and separation agreements, and non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements. I counsel clients on wage and hour compliance, independent contractor classification, leave and reasonable accommodation, discipline and discharge, and harassment and retaliation issues. On the contract side, I handle services, consulting and independent contractor agreements, vendor agreements and MSAs, NDAs, licensing agreements and settlement agreements, and I prepare and respond to demand letters in contract, payment and employment disputes. My litigation experience shapes my drafting. I handle matters before federal and state trial and appellate courts and administrative agencies, and I've argued multiple times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. I know which provisions hold up when an agreement or policy is challenged. I'm admitted in New York and am a member of the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, where I'm active in their Labor and Employment Law committees. I earned my J.D. from New York Law School and my B.A. from the University of Florida.