Counsel across the areas that shape how you build, scale, and operate.

Senior, cross-disciplinary legal and strategic counsel — from day-to-day company building to AI and data governance, mission-driven organizations, creative rights, and complex international work.

Areas of Practice

Fractional General Counsel

Technology & Start-ups

Legal infrastructure for companies that are actually building things.

We design and negotiate the agreements at the core of how technology companies build, sell, and scale — without slowing momentum or over-lawyering the business.

‍ ‍Corporate & Governance

  • Entity formation & structuring (Delaware C-corp, LLC, PLLC)

  • Bylaws, operating agreements & governing documents

  • Founders', shareholder & stockholder agreements

  • Boards, resolutions, consents & minute books

  • Cap tables, equity plans & 409A / 83(b) coordination

  • Business insurance & liability risk (D&O, tech E&O, cyber)

Commercial & Technology Contracts

  • SaaS subscription & software licensing

  • Master Services Agreements (MSAs) & SOWs

  • API, developer & data-sharing agreements

  • Partnerships, reseller, referral & channel deals

  • Marketplace & platform terms

  • Vendor, procurement & NDAs

IP & Open Source

  • IP ownership, assignment & licensing

  • Open-source usage policy & compliance strategy

  • Trade-secret & confidentiality protection

Founders, Employees & Investors

  • Founder & advisor equity & vesting arrangements

  • Employment, contractor & IP-assignment agreements

  • SAFEs, convertible notes & priced early-stage rounds

  • Term-sheet negotiation & financing-document review

Disputes & Risk

  • Contract disputes, demand letters & pre-litigation strategy

  • Arbitration & mediation clauses & proceedings

  • Litigation strategy and management with specialist co-counsel

Ready to move forward?

Tell us what you're building or facing, and we'll follow up to talk it through — including fee arrangements, which we're happy to discuss on an initial call.

AI, Data & Privacy

Governance for the data and AI systems that now define regulatory risk.

The fastest-moving area of exposure for modern companies — and the one where deep technical fluency matters as much as legal judgment. Informed by Big Tech experience and active AI-governance work.

AI, Data, Privacy & Ethics

  • Emerging AI frameworks (EU AI Act, California AI Transparency Act)

  • Conformity assessments & certification (ISO/IEC 42001; AIUC-1)

  • AI data rights, model governance & responsible-AI ethics

  • Privacy programs (GDPR, CCPA), policies & Terms of Service

  • Data processing agreements (DPAs) & security addenda

Privacy & Data Protection

  • Privacy programs (GDPR, CCPA), policies & Terms of Service

  • Data processing agreements (DPAs) & security addenda

  • Cross-border data transfers & vendor risk review

Marketing, Advertising & Investor Communications

  • Marketing & advertising compliance

  • Investment Advisers Act & SEC marketing-rule compliance

  • Investor-communications review for funds & advisers

Rights of Publicity & Personal Identity

  • Name, likeness & rights-of-publicity disputes

  • Misuse of personal identity & privacy violations

  • Individual representation against media & platforms

Film, media & creative rights

Counsel for filmmakers, producers, artists, and creators — across development, financing, production, and distribution, and in defending creative authorship and IP.

We have advised filmmakers, producers, and creative professionals across the full lifecycle of film and media projects — from development and financing through production, post-production, and distribution.

We have negotiated film LLC operating agreements, production and co-production contracts, location agreements, post-production and licensing arrangements, and film-financing structures — including investor and revenue-participation frameworks. Our experience includes negotiating the sale and distribution of documentary film rights to international broadcasters and media platforms, including Channel 4 (U.K.), as well as advising on domestic and cross-border distribution strategies.

We have also represented New York-based visual artists, writers, and designers, as well as Instagram and YouTube influencers, in their platform agreements.

International governance, risk, and compliance — carried into the AI era.

Our world is growing ever more complex demanding real-time evidence-based analysis to inform effective decision making, policy and analysis. We represent governments, international organizations, and major international clients in strategic analysis, policy, planning, and evaluation — work that has spanned the justice, human-rights, and security sectors for the United Nations, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of State, and the OSCE. Richard Langan is one of the world's leading rule-of-law experts, has consulted in conflict and post-conflict zones including Iraq and Afghanistan, and is the lead author of numerous international reports and evaluations. That same judgment now extends to how governments and institutions govern data and artificial intelligence.

Non-profits and Foundations

Legal infrastructure for mission-driven organizations.

Governance, stewardship, and compliance systems that support your mission without slowing it down — for nonprofits, private foundations, and family philanthropies.

Formation & Structure

  • Nonprofit and charitable entity formation

  • Bylaws, policies, core documentation

  • Board structure and governance setup

  • Coordination with tax-exempt advisors

Governance & Fiduciary

  • Board refreshes and policy modernization

  • Conflict-of-interest and ethics frameworks

  • Committees and delegated authority

  • Whistleblower and retention policies


Grants & Restricted Funds

  • Grant agreements and compliance support

  • Donor restrictions and gift-acceptance

  • Restricted-fund structures

  • Fiscal sponsorship arrangements

Operations & Contracting

  • Vendor, consultant, and services agreements

  • Program partner MOUs

  • Sponsorship and event agreements

  • IP licensing and brand permissions

Data, Privacy & AI

  • Privacy policies for mission operations

  • Vendor risk review for CRM and analytics

  • Data-processing terms and security

  • Responsible-AI governance

People & Workforce

  • Employment and contractor agreements

  • Volunteer terms and waivers

  • Policy development and investigations

  • Support for hybrid and growing teams

How we work

We deliver senior-level counsel designed for organizations that need clarity, judgment, and execution — not unnecessary complexity. We work through targeted projects(formation, governance refresh, contract systems, compliance build-outs) and ongoing advisory relationships (fractional or on-call support for leadership and boards), with an emphasis on practical governance, documents that scale with funding, and frameworks that withstand scrutiny from donors, regulators, and partners.

Global Consulting & strategic advisory

Advisory services for corporations, international organizations, and government contractors in high-risk and emerging markets — grounded in field experience across 35+ countries.

Your outsourced legal team — on a retainer, not a full-time salary.

Engage us as senior, on-call counsel across every area below, on a flat monthly retainer or project-by-project. You get the judgment of an experienced General Counsel — and the continuity of someone who knows your business — without the cost of a full-time hire.

Deep legal expertise, hard-won field experience.

International AI & Digital Governance

  • Advising governments & institutions on AI, data & digital-rights frameworks

  • AI readiness, capacity-building & institutional assessments

  • Comparative legal analysis across jurisdictions

Political, Legal & Regulatory Risk

  • Political and legal risk analysis

  • Legislative & constitutional reform assessment

  • Government stakeholder mapping & engagementProgram Evaluation & Risk

  • Performance measurement and outcome mapping

  • Due diligence in fragile and post-conflict states

  • Anti-corruption monitoring and system design

  • Security-sector reform analysis

ESG & Human-Rights Due Diligence

  • Human-rights due diligence in frontier markets

  • Supply-chain risk in conflict-affected regions

  • Governance and transparency frameworks

  • Compliance strategy for high-risk jurisdictions

Program Evaluation & Institutional Reform

  • Performance measurement & outcome mapping

  • Due diligence in fragile & post-conflict states

  • Anti-corruption & security-sector reform

  • Technical proposal & bid strategy for international programs

Government Contractors

  • Positioning for U.S. State, and DoD solicitations

  • Technical proposal and bid strategy

  • Reconnaissance and opportunity assessments

  • Results-based management frameworks

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