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.
Our Startup Packages
Digital Startup Package
Launching a digital business means putting the right legal foundation in place from the start. Our Digital Startup Package gives you customized Terms of Service and a U.S. Privacy Policy designed around your product, customers, and data practices.
This package includes
- Up to an hour consultation
- Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy (US)
App Development Package
Have an app idea and need to hire a developer? The contract with your developer is one of the most important contracts you will need for your digital startup. Among other things, the services need to be described properly, appropriate remedies should be included so that you have recourse if things go wrong and you must address ownership of the intellectual property and include related protections.
This package includes
- Up to an hour consultation
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Developer Agreement
Trademark Search & Application Package
For businesses and founders ready to protect their brand, our Trademark Search and Application Package helps you determine whether your trademark is available and, if cleared, prepares your application for federal registration with the USPTO.
This package includes
- Comprehensive trademark search (up to 2 hours)
- 30-minute consultation to review search results
- Trademark application preparation and filing with the USPTO*
- Guidance on potential conflicts and next steps
USPTO filing fees are not included and are paid separately.
Sales Package
Want to close deals faster and get revenue in the door? Our Sales Package helps you put the right contracts in place to streamline your sales process, protect your business, and minimize risk as you grow. We’ll work with you to develop a contract structure tailored to your business, product, and customers — so you can spend less time on contracts and more time closing deals.
This package includes
- Up to 1-hour consultation
- Custom Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Custom Customer Agreement
- Guidance on contract structure and sales contracting best practices
SaaS Package
Your SaaS agreement is one of the most important contracts in your business. Our SaaS Package gives you a customized agreement designed around your product, business model, and customers — helping protect your intellectual property, limit liability, and create a clear framework for how your product is used so you can sell with confidence and minimize risk.
This package includes
- Up to 1-hour consultation
- Custom SaaS Agreement
Healthcare Technology SaaS Package
Selling SaaS in the healthcare space comes with additional legal and regulatory considerations. Our Healthcare Technology SaaS Package helps you put the right agreements in place to protect your technology and business while addressing the unique data, privacy, and contracting requirements that come with healthcare customers. We’ll tailor your agreements to your product, business model, and customers so you can sell with confidence and minimize risk as you grow.
This package includes
- Up to 1-hour consultation
- Custom SaaS Agreement
- Custom Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
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.