SERVICES
Legal Counsel For Founders
Founding a company is tough already, and that is before navigating the world of law firms and billing rates and legal requirements. Speed, prioritization and execution is key early in a company’s life so Maximus Law can help guide you in the initial stages, including finding the right legal experts and getting the initial legal requirements in place, so that you can focus on critical things like product-market fit, MVP and early financing.
Lending/Secured Transactions Counsel For Borrowers
Clare has over 20 years as a lending attorney representing both borrowers and lenders. Clare has done secured and unsecured borrowing transactions (including convertible notes), including loans secured by intellectual property, securities, real property, bank accounts and a variety of other assets. Maximus Law has a unique perspective having supported these transactions as in-house counsel so Clare understands the internal challenges of navigating these transactions which can often burden and distract the company’s resources. These deals can feel like a corporate/financial health probe. Maximus Law can help guide the company through each stage from the term sheet, through due diligence, to negotiation and execution. Secured transactions can also have material ongoing obligations with severe consequences, so Clare’s experience as a lending and borrower counsel can help identify and negotiate terms to minimize the post-closing burdens of these transactions.
Privacy
Maintaining the integrity of your public image is an inseparable part of your business, whether you’re a creative individual or a small company. Protecting your privacy and your public image from slander and libel is only one side of the coin; negotiating sponsorships, public appearances, and endorsements is the other. Our firm advises on both, offering litigation and dispute resolution, defamation (pre and post publication), and other image protection mechanisms—all so you can amplify and control the way you want the world to see you.
On Demand CLO/GC - aka Everything Else
Maximus Law can help if a Company needs a day-to-day legal advisor. Maximus Law can be a strategic legal partner to the Company’s executive team to anticipate and identify legal issues and solutions for the company’s corporate, product and customer roadmap. Maximus Law can help manage outside law firms and legal spend as well as help guide utilizing legal operations and technology to align with the Client’s growth goals. Maximus Law also has experience navigating legal issues related to employee issues and policies, marketing campaigns and IT/Privacy.
Lending & Borrowing
Demystifying art law is in itself a creative practice. It requires finesse, strategic structuring, and, in many ways, empathy. At the end of the day, art and its worth is profoundly personal. In such matters, mediation or arbitration almost always yields the most fulfilling results. However, should the occasion arise, our lawyers are more than prepared to move into litigation. From artists, agents, dealers, galleries, museums, and auction houses, our clients have always walked away from their disputes or deals knowing that their core interests were preserved.
Commercial - Vendors, Customers and Strategic Partners
Whether you run a theater, recording studio, or an eCommerce website, all businesses need to minimize their legal liability and risk. Our lawyers will assess the structure of your operation, such as its physical or digital space, the types of products you sell, who your consumers are, what type of company you have filed under (LLC, Inc, etc.), and so on. From there, we will tailor the right risk plan, complete with permit applications, insurance policies, and more, so you can worry less about liabilities and concentrate on growing your business.
Commercial Sales, Partnership & GTM Legal Support
Maximus Law has extensive experience supporting GTM and growing sales organizations. This includes developing templates, playbooks, tech tools and processes to help streamline the document and negotiation process, anticipate the needs of customers and develop and maintain an internal approval process to align with the Company’s sales, finance, accounting and corporate requirements. Clare also has extensive experience working closely with IT, security, data and privacy teams to scale the business, onboard and offboard vendors and develop internal policies to comply with certifications including SOC2, GDPR and other privacy legal requirements. In some cases, the legal team needs supplemental support close to quarter and fiscal year ends, and Maximus Law can provide this to help the legal team clear out the contract pipeline.
Product
The internet, software, and technology are so pervasive that we can’t remember having ever lived without them. They make our lives simpler, but behind the curtain are fluctuating challenges in protection and monetization; challenges that our firm stays two steps ahead of. We’ve helped engineers, inventors, gaming startups, and entrepreneurs develop, license, sell, and maintain ownership over their creations. We’ve also negotiated purchasing and partnership agreements for larger investment companies looking for their unicorn.
Business Strategy
The startup and small business marketplace is still a new and fierce frontier that requires legal advice from attorneys who are deeply entrenched in the particulars of venture financing. We offer a competitive advantage that can help you save money and make more of it in the long run. We’ve steered corporations like Tap Unlimited and Hydrocycle with a balance of legal, business, operational, and financial strategies that had clear execution and built-in problem-solving contingencies. Our holistic approach is essential to any company looking to grow.