Lawyers for Startups and Entrepreneurs
We’ll help you start smart with real-world advice.
Launching a startup means making a lot of important decisions quickly. From choosing the right entity and protecting your intellectual property to putting contracts in place, hiring your team, addressing privacy, and preparing to raise capital, the decisions you make early can have a lasting impact on your business.
Meyer Law helps founders start smart with practical, business-minded legal guidance designed for the realities of building and growing a company.
“Tricia Meyer and her team are exactly what a startup founder or business owner should want in their legal team. Smart, timely, and transparent with costs. If you are looking for a great team you can grow with, you found it.”
Kaben Clauson
TruePublic Inc.
Why startups and entrepreneurs appreciate us
We’re entrepreneurs.
We understand what it takes to build a business because we’re entrepreneurs too. Our lawyers combine legal experience with real-world business perspective to help founders make practical, informed decisions.
We’re transparent.
No one likes surprise legal bills. We provide estimates in advance and communicate openly about fees so you can prioritize your legal needs and plan your budget with confidence.
We’re connectors.
Building a company takes the right people around you. Our team has built extensive networks across the startup and business communities, and we’re always looking for opportunities to make meaningful connections for our clients.
Start smart for long-term success.
The legal foundation you build early can impact your company for years to come. Our startup lawyers help founders understand what they need now, what can wait until later, and how to prioritize legal decisions as the business grows.
From corporate structure, founder and ownership matters, and customer contracts to trademarks and copyrights, hiring and employment, privacy and data protection, and fundraising, Meyer Law provides practical legal guidance throughout the startup journey.
We believe in fee transparency and provide estimates in advance, making it easier to prioritize your legal needs, plan your budget, and invest in the right protections at the right time.
Our legal services for startups and entrepreneurs
Every startup is different. We work with founders to understand their business, priorities, and goals and develop a legal strategy tailored to what they actually need — now and as they grow.
Not sure where to start? Request a complimentary Legal Roadmap and we’ll help you understand what to prioritize, why it matters, and what can wait until later.
Corporate
From choosing the right entity and establishing ownership to putting governance documents in place and preparing for future growth, the corporate decisions you make early can have a lasting impact on your startup. Our corporate lawyers help founders with entity formation and structuring, operating and shareholder agreements, equity matters, corporate governance, conversions, foreign qualification, and other corporate needs as the business grows.
Technology + Commercial Contracts
Strong contracts help protect your startup and create clear expectations with customers, vendors, partners, and other third parties. Our business contract lawyers help startups develop customer and commercial agreements, SaaS agreements, software licenses, consulting and services agreements, vendor agreements, NDAs, strategic partnership agreements, Terms of Use, and other contracts tailored to the way your business actually operates.
Hiring + Employment
Building a team creates new legal responsibilities for your startup. Our employment lawyers help founders navigate worker classification, offer letters, employment and independent contractor agreements, confidentiality and intellectual property protections, compensation and incentive arrangements, workplace policies, and other employment matters that arise as your team grows.
Trademarks + Copyrights
Your brand, content, technology, and other intellectual property can become some of your startup’s most valuable assets. Our lawyers help founders identify what should be protected, conduct trademark searches, file trademark and copyright applications, establish intellectual property ownership, structure licensing arrangements, and put contractual protections in place to help safeguard what you’re building.
Fundraising + Investment
Preparing to raise capital involves more than finding investors. Our corporate and securities lawyers help startups get investment-ready, prepare for due diligence, evaluate financing structures, negotiate term sheets, and prepare SAFEs, convertible notes, subscription agreements, and other investment documents. From friends and family and seed rounds to Series A and beyond, we help founders navigate the legal side of raising capital.
Mergers + Acquisitions
Startups and growing companies may encounter acquisition opportunities, strategic transactions, or potential exits at any stage. Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers represent buyers and sellers in asset purchases, stock purchases, business sales, and other strategic transactions, helping clients navigate deal structure, letters of intent, due diligence, negotiations, transaction documents, closing, and post-closing matters.
Privacy + Data Protection
Privacy considerations begin as soon as your startup starts collecting personal information. Our privacy and data protection lawyers help founders understand which requirements may apply to their businesses, develop privacy policies and notices, address cookies and data practices, negotiate DPAs and BAAs where applicable, and establish practical privacy practices that can scale as the business grows.
Types of startups and businesses we help
We work with startups and technology companies across a wide range of industries, products, services, and business models, including:
- Mobile applications
- Software-as-a-Service
- Platform-as-a-Service
- Software
- Consulting
- Software and mobile app developers
- Managed service providers
- Data analytics firms
- Financial services companies
- Internet of Things
- Information technology companies
- Healthcare technology companies
Not sure what you need?
Building a startup comes with a long legal to-do list — but not everything needs to happen at once. Request a complimentary Legal Roadmap and we’ll help you understand what your business needs, why you need it, and what to prioritize now versus later.
Let’s Talk About Your Startup
Whether you’re turning an idea into a business, getting ready to launch, bringing on customers or employees, protecting your brand, or preparing to raise capital, Meyer Law can help.
Tell us about your startup, where you are today, and where you’re headed, and we’ll help you determine the right legal priorities for your business.