Business Lawyers in Bellevue, WA

The client journey

Wherever you are in the life of the business.

Most companies move through the same four chapters — only the dates change. Choose the chapter you’re in.

▍ 01 / Forming

From handshake to operating agreement.

The earliest decisions a company makes are the ones it lives with longest. We help founders pick the right entity, paper the partner relationship, get clean equity grants in place, and set up the governance habits that scale. The goal isn’t to over-engineer day one — it’s to make sure year three doesn’t inherit a mess.

→Entity formation (LLC, S-corp, C-corp, partnership)
→Founder agreements, vesting, IP assignment
→Operating agreements & bylaws built for growth
→Employment basics: handbooks, offer letters, NDAs
→First commercial contracts, terms of service

▍ 02 / Growing

The contracts and capital that keep up.

Revenue brings complexity. We become the legal layer behind your sales cycle, your real-estate footprint, your hiring, and the financings that fund the next move. We staff lean, return calls the same day, and write things in language a client can actually use.

→Customer, vendor, distribution, and licensing agreements
→Commercial leases & owner-occupied real estate
→Debt facilities, lines of credit, intercompany funding
→Equity incentive plans, executive comp, key-employee retention
→General Counsel engagements on a fixed retainer

▍ 03 / Scaling

Add-ons, capital raises, and governance that lasts.

When a company crosses into platform-scale work — multiple offices, multiple states, an institutional investor at the table — the legal calendar changes. We’ve sat on both sides of buy-side diligence, drafted the term sheet for the Series A, and rewritten the board package that’s been quietly fraying for years.

→Buy-side M&A and add-on acquisitions
→Capital raises: Series Seed/A, debt, mezzanine, SAFE/CN cleanups
→Multi-state and cross-border expansion counsel
→Board composition, committees, and information rights
→Internal investigations & sensitive-matter counsel

▍ 04 / Exiting

The deal that finally closes the chapter.

Whether it’s a strategic buyer, a private-equity rollup, an ESOP, or a transfer to the next generation, we’ve closed the kind of transactions that get one shot to go right. We negotiate the price, the structure, and the long tail — indemnity, earn-out, employment, restrictive covenants — with an eye on the life the owner wants to live afterward.

→Sell-side M&A (strategic and financial buyers)
→Recapitalizations & minority redemptions
→Generational transfers & family succession
→ESOPs and partial-liquidity transactions
→Post-closing transition, advisory roles, retained equity

Counsel for the people building the business.

Wherever you are in the life of the business.

From handshake to operating agreement.

The contracts and capital that keep up.

Add-ons, capital raises, and governance that lasts.

The deal that finally closes the chapter.

The attorneys you’ll actually work with.

William Hsu

Paul Spencer

Caleb Stewart

Thomas Lofton

David Tall

Thomas Hansen

Connor Rankin

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Recent work.

A second-generation distributor sells to a strategic buyer.

Series A for a Bellevue health-tech founder.

A thirty-year family business resets for succession.

Two co-founders, one company, three months to resolution.

Working on something? Let’s talk it through.