Legal Coverage for Your Whole Business

One fractional general counsel team for contracts, people, property, deals and succession, so you know what you don’t know before it costs you.

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Why Equinox

More than Just a Lawyer
Your Fractional General Counsel, by Your Side

Business owners have sacrificed countless hours and resources to build what they have. You deserve a lawyer who takes the time to understand your short- and long-term goals, so the guidance you get fits the business you are actually running.

Most businesses call a lawyer after something breaks. We work the other way around: we look for the risk first, so you can decide with the facts in front of you. Our clients don’t want to avoid risk. They want to see it, weigh it, and decide.

Mega corps aren’t the only ones with an army of attorneys.

Trusted by growing companies across Washington, Oregon and Colorado.

  • Alliance Partition Systems
  • ProMotion Holdings
  • Piroshky Piroshky
  • EJP Consulting Group
  • Dick's Drive-In
  • Darwin's Natural Pet Products
  • Tri-Tec Manufacturing
  • Architextures
By Stage of Business

Strategic Legal Counsel
for Every Stage of a Business You Plan to Keep

From first filing to final sale, one team that already knows your business, so nothing falls between the cracks.

Startup

Set the business up right from day one: the entity, the ownership terms, and the first contracts and hires everything else is built on.

LLC and Corporation Formation

Operating & Shareholder Agreements

Trademark Applications

Offer Letters & Employment Agreements

Growth

As you hire, sell and expand, the contracts, people and financing behind your growth need to keep up.

Commercial Contracts

Financing & Raising Capital

Employee Handbooks & Policies

Multistate Formations

Maintenance

Keep the business in good standing and its documents current, so small gaps don’t become expensive ones.

Annual Meetings & Minute Books

Registered Agent Services

Contracts Management

Risk Audits & Insurance Reviews

Exit

Plan the transition on your terms, whether you sell, pass the business on, or wind it down.

Buying & Selling a Business

Business Succession Plans

Buy/Sell Agreements

Dissolution

Practice Areas

Legal Support for
Every Part of Your Business

Every area of business law your company is likely to need, handled by one team. Open an area to see the work we do in it.

Set the business up right, keep it in good standing, and keep the ownership documents matching how you actually run.

  • LLC and Corporation formations
  • Corporate documents such as Operating Agreements, Shareholder Agreements, Bylaws, Record Books
  • Stock redemption and repurchase agreements
  • Entity conversions (LLC to corporation, corporation to LLC, state to state)
  • Restructuring, subsidiaries, and entity consolidation
  • Dissolution of LLCs and corporations
  • Multistate formations and maintenance
  • Corporate maintenance such as annual meetings, corporate minute books, annual licensing
  • Registered agent services and changes
  • Foreign qualification and state registrations
  • Responses to state agency, tax, and audit notices
  • Owner agreements and owner disputes

Raise money with documents that protect the business and keep you compliant with securities rules.

  • Equity financing, private placements, and securities
  • Debt financing, promissory notes, and security agreements
  • Subscription agreements and investor questionnaires
  • Federal and Washington securities filings, with other states available
  • Stock option plans

Buy or sell a business with the structure, terms and due diligence handled, from letter of intent to closing.

  • Letter of Intent
  • Asset purchase and stock purchase transactions
  • Buy/Sell Agreements
  • Due diligence checklists and due diligence review
  • Joint venture agreements

The agreements behind every customer, vendor and partner, drafted to protect you and managed so nothing lapses.

  • Master Services Agreements
  • Independent Contractor Agreements
  • Subcontractor Agreements
  • Vendor agreements
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
  • Software, IP, and intercompany license agreements
  • Website Agreements such as Terms of Use, Privacy Policy
  • Indemnification and hold harmless agreements, waivers, and releases
  • Distribution agreements
  • Sales representative agreements
  • Purchase order terms and conditions
  • Warehousing agreements
  • Contracts management
  • Training: Contracts basics, contracts management

Hiring, policies, leave, pay, equity and terminations, handled with the care one of the highest-risk areas of business in Washington demands.

  • Employee handbooks
  • Offer letters
  • Employment Agreements
  • Restrictive covenants, noncompete, and non-solicitation agreements
  • Confidentiality and IP Assignment Agreements
  • Workplace policies
  • New hire process
  • Exempt/Non-exempt employee classification audit
  • Joint employer audit
  • Federal (FMLA) and state (PFML) leave requirements
  • Workplace investigations
  • Federal (ADA) and state (WLDA) disability and accommodation analysis
  • Wage and hour (meal and rest break) compliance and training
  • Termination procedures
  • Severance, separation, and release agreements
  • Training: Anti-harassment, Wage and hour, Employment law basics
  • Phantom stock and phantom equity plans, grants, and employee guides
  • Stock appreciation rights (SARs), including extensions
  • Equity compensation plans
  • Profit-sharing and bonus plans
  • Key employee retention plans (KERPs)
  • Plan terminations

Know what you own, protect it, and license it on your terms.

  • IP Strategy
  • Trademark applications and maintenance
  • Copyright applications
  • Intellectual Property licensing agreements

Privacy, website terms and AI policies that keep up with the law and with how your business uses data.

  • Data privacy audit
  • Privacy policy
  • Website Terms of Use/Terms of Service
  • Website cookie policies
  • Data processing and data management agreements
  • HIPAA business associate agreements (BAA)
  • AI use policies

Leases and property transactions for the space and equipment your business depends on.

  • Commercial leases
  • Lease negotiation
  • Real estate purchase and sale agreements
  • Statutory warranty deeds
  • Equipment purchasing and leasing

See risk early, insure it properly, and plan for continuity and succession before you need to.

  • Asset management
  • Risk audits
  • Insurance reviews
  • Business continuity planning
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Business succession plans

Resolve disputes early, before they reach a courtroom.

  • Demand letters
  • Cease and desist letters
  • Collection letters
  • Settlement agreements
  • Subpoena assistance

Personal planning for owners, aligned with the plans for the business.

  • Estate planning packages for individuals and married couples
  • Wills and trusts
  • Powers of attorney and healthcare directives
  • Prenuptial and separate property agreements
  • Trustee and administrator notification letters
Industries We Serve

Everyday Industries,
Counsel That Already Speaks Your Language

Most of our clients are family businesses and founder-led companies in everyday industries. Knowing how your industry works means fewer explanations and better questions.

How We Deliver

Two Ways to Engage
Equinox Business Law

Bring us one project, or bring us in as your fractional general counsel. Either way, the scope is agreed before the work starts.

Project Solutions

A La Carte Solutions

Targeted help with a single contract, transaction or milestone, from the same team that would be your general counsel.

  • A defined scope before work begins
  • Fixed fee pricing, where appropriate
  • An easy step up to fractional general counsel
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Flagship Model

Fractional General Counsel

Designed for founders, owners and family business leaders whose legal needs have outgrown one-off help. A team that supports your needs becomes your legal department, for a fixed monthly fee.

  • Access to legal counsel for strategic and day-to-day guidance
  • A legal team that knows your business
  • The Legal Health Check and an ongoing risk roadmap
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Legal Health Check

Know What You Don’t Know

The Legal Health Check helps you identify the gaps in your contracts, employment and governance, before they cost you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions about
Working with Us

Yes. Many clients start with a single project, such as negotiating a commercial lease, managing an acquisition, registering a trademark or reviewing an important vendor contract, and some later bring us in as their fractional general counsel. Every project is scoped before work begins.

We take the time up front to understand the business, what you want to achieve and what needs to be delivered. Because our attorneys focus on business law, we can anticipate the work involved and offer fixed fee pricing where appropriate, so you can pick up the phone without watching the clock.

It depends on the work. Our standard service level agreement is no more than one week. If you need it more urgently, we can deliver it, but expedited fees may apply.

Most of our clients are based in Washington, Oregon and Colorado, and many of them have employees, customers or vendors in other states.

Proactive legal strategy requires tight coordination with your financial and risk advisors. We regularly collaborate with client CPAs to ensure tax implications of transactions are addressed, coordinate with insurance brokers to verify coverage provisions match contract indemnities, and align with financial planners on succession strategies.