BGC is a member of 1% for the Planet.
General Legal and Business Counsel
For Startups, Nonprofits,
& Social Entrepreneurs
What's Next?
If you're trying to solve meaningful problems and need legal or business guidance - and you're OK with kids occasionally popping into a zoom screen - let's chat.
Past Experience
- General Counsel & C-level Executive at TUNE
- Interim General Counsel to a Series F unicorn
- Attorney at Perkins Coie
- Nonprofit Board Member
- Startup Advisor
- Policy advocate in Olympia and DC
- Social enterprise field researcher in Ghana
- Pro Bono transactional legal counselor
Legal and Operational Services
- Fractional General Counsel: strategic advice and legal triage for exec leadership
- Commercial agreement drafting + negotiations
- Data privacy and security
- Corporate governance (including financings + M&A)
- Intellectual property
- Employment and operations counseling
- Product and regulatory compliance
- Risk analysis and issue-spotting
- Strategy to operate, scale, and fundraise
- Develop social impact programs to bolster employee and community engagement
Representative Clients
Client industries range widely, including:
- AI incubator and venture fund
- Autonomous solar-powered robots to support regenerative agriculture
- Government benefits and relief fund administration
- Access to higher education policy and advocacy
- EV charging stations with lounge amenities
- Hospital bill transparency software
- Medical community social network
- Technology and financial services for unhoused
- Machine learning data platforms
- Automated data privacy infrastructure
- Global public health and clean technology advisory services
- Data analytics and consulting services for farms
Client sizes and structures range from individual founders to single-member LLCs to mid-size public benefit corporations and charitable nonprofits to venture-backed unicorns.
BGC is a member of 1% for the Planet
1% for the Planet members commit to donating at least 1% of annual sales directly to environmental organizations. Every donation is certified to ensure businesses meet that commitment. Learn more at https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/.