Corporate counsel for AI startups and investment funds.
Trained at Davis Polk, Paul Hastings, and Rutan & Tucker as a capital markets and investment management attorney. Today I advise dozens of venture-backed companies and investment funds as outside general counsel.
Three practice areas, one point of contact.
SaaS & Commercial Contracts
Enterprise customer agreements, data and AI terms, and API and vendor contracts, drafted and negotiated so deals close quickly and your product stays protected.
Venture Financing
Equity and debt financings for companies and the investors backing them, from first institutional round onward, with the governance and securities compliance that comes with them.
Outside General Counsel
An embedded legal partner for venture-backed companies and investment funds; helping companies navigate employment matters, draft company policies, and manage the day-to-day questions that come up between rounds.
Fluent in the AI stack, from infrastructure to agents.
My clients build at every layer of AI: the infrastructure that trains, routes, and serves models, and the agents that put them to work. Knowing how these products work means contracts that fit them, from data rights and model outputs to usage-based pricing and uptime commitments.
Model routing
Sending each request to the best-suited model across providers.
Training data curation
Selecting the data that makes models train faster and perform better.
Search & retrieval
Vector and full-text search that lets AI applications find the right data at scale.
Data platforms
Managed data lakehouses that feed analytics and AI workloads.
AI for engineering teams
Autonomous agents that investigate production incidents, and AI data scientists that build and ship models.
AI for go-to-market
Agents that run marketing operations, and AI that turns automotive leads into booked appointments.
Workforce platforms
Software that handles onboarding, placement and compliance for staffing agencies and hourly workers.
Advising clients since 2013.
I started my career in Silicon Valley in the capital markets practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell, then moved into senior roles in the investment management practice at Paul Hastings and the general corporate practice at Rutan & Tucker. In 13 years, I have advised Silicon Valley startups, venture capital firms, private investment funds, multinational companies, non-profits, and international political parties on their most significant matters, including serving as interim general counsel for SignalFire.
My own practice gives clients that same caliber of work, delivered directly by me: practical, commercially minded advice that fits your business and your goals.
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