Services

We help founders, business owners, nonprofits, cooperatives, and healing practitioners navigate the legal decisions that shape how their organizations are structured, governed, financed, and sustained.

How We can help you

Legal innovation for a just economy

From formation and ownership design to capital raising, succession, and ongoing counsel, we build legal structures designed around your mission and the future you’re working toward.

Where are you in your journey?

I’m building
something new

I’m planning an
ownership transition

I’m raising
capital

I need ongoing
legal support

I’m working in the
healing sector

I’m looking for a
speaker or subject
matter expert

I’m building
something new

I’m planning an
ownership transition

I’m raising capital

I need ongoing
legal support

I’m working in the
healing sector

I’m looking for a
speaker or subject
matter expert

Get your structure right from the start

Build Your Organization

The decisions you make at the beginning—from entity type and ownership to governance and mission protection—will shape everything that follows. We help mission-driven organizations build structures that reflect their values and hold up as they grow.

We work with founders and organizations choosing mission-aligned ownership models to design structures that reflect their values, distribute power intentionally, and hold up as the organization grows.

We help with:

Entity Selection & Formation

Choosing and establishing the right structure, from cooperatives and nonprofits to purpose trust-owned entities, LCAs, hybrid organizations, multi-entity ecosystems. and Social enterprise entity formation.

Governance Architecture

Designing practical decision-making structures that distribute power intentionally and align with your values.

Founder Agreements & Equity Structures

Creating agreements and equity structures (eg. Allocations and Incentive Plans) that reflect how founders contribute to an organization over time.

Hybrid & Nonprofit Structure Design

Designing dual-entity structures, fiscal sponsorship arrangements, cooperative design and development, and other models that operate across traditional nonprofit and for-profit boundaries.

Loan Fund & PRI/MRI Structuring

Supporting CDFIs, mission lenders, and foundations with loan funds, program-related investments, and mission-related investments.

We specialize in legal architecture built around the specific mission, stakeholders, and future of an organization—not one-size-fits-all templates.

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You built something worth preserving. We help you keep it that way.

Transition Ownership

For many business owners, succession is about more than finding a buyer. We help businesses explore employee and community ownership strategies that protect their legacy, people, and mission.

We help with Mergers & Acquisitions, plus:

Legal Feasibility Analysis

Assessing which ownership structures best fit your business, financial position, and mission objectives before you commit to a path.

Comparative Structure Analysis

Helping you understand the practical differences between cooperative conversions, ESOPs (ESOPeratives), perpetual purpose trusts (EOT/PPT), and other ownership models.

Transaction Structuring & Execution

Structuring the transaction from term sheet through closing and coordinating with your financial, accounting, and other advisors.

Trustee & Fiduciary Framework Design

Supporting trustee selection and creating fiduciary frameworks for EOT and purpose trust structures.

Post-Conversion Counsel

Providing ongoing legal support as your organization develops the governance capacity required by its new ownership structure.

We specialize in complex transitions where layered ownership, mission preservation, or unique governance mean conventional templates don’t fit.

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Capital that doesn’t compromise your mission.

Raise Capital

We help mission-driven organizations raise capital in ways that support their growth while protecting their governance, values, and long-term mission.

Securities Law Compliance

Structuring offerings to ensure compliance with state and federal securities regulations.

Mission-Aligned Capital Structures

Designing revenue share agreements, redeemable equity, community debt instruments, and other alternatives to mainstream, extractive funding models.

Direct Public Offerings & Community Investment

Designing community investment strategies and navigating the regulatory requirements involved in bringing community members in as investors.

Cap Table Management & Investor Relations

Establishing manageable ownership structures and advising on ongoing investor communications and reporting obligations.

Cooperative & Employee Ownership Integration

Ensuring capital raising and securities compliance work alongside your existing ownership and governance model.

Our team brings deep experience in non-extractive finance, community capital, securities law, and investment structures designed specifically for mission-driven enterprises.

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Where legal practice meets the work of healing

Healing Law

Legal counsel that understands what you’re building—and why it matters

For Healing Sector Enterprises

We work with individuals and organizations navigating emerging and evolving areas of healing, where regulatory uncertainty, novel governance questions, and values-driven business models require specialized legal thinking.

Our services include:

  • Entity formation and ownership design
  • Natural Medicine Health Act compliance
  • Cooperative and community-based governance
  • Commercial agreements
  • Intellectual property protection for healing modalities
  • Indigenous governance and self-determination
  • Risk management for emerging healing modalities

Our approach considers not only legal risk, but the values, cultural context, community relationships, and long-term mission behind the work.

The legal profession is overdue for its own healing

For Legal Professionals & Organizations

Lawyer burnout, secondary trauma, and the structural conditions that contribute to them require more than surface-level wellness programs. Through consulting, training, and speaking, we help build more sustainable, trauma-informed, and values-aligned approaches to legal practice.

Our services include:

  • Lawyer wellness program design
  • Trauma-informed legal practice training
  • Law firm culture transformation consulting
  • Speaking, workshops, and CLE programs
  • Healing Law Practice Audits
  • Train-the-Trainer programs

The Healing Law framework draws on trauma-informed practice, restorative justice principles, values-aligned business design, and the lived experience of practitioners transforming how they practice.

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Book a speaking engagement

Where legal practice meets the work of healing

Healing Law

Legal counsel that understands what you’re building—and why it matters

For Healing Sector Enterprises

We work with individuals and organizations navigating emerging and evolving areas of healing, where regulatory uncertainty, novel governance questions, and values-driven business models require specialized legal thinking.

Our services include:

  • Entity formation and ownership design
  • Natural Medicine Health Act compliance
  • Cooperative and community-based governance
  • Commercial agreements
  • Intellectual property protection for healing modalities
  • Indigenous governance and self-determination
  • Risk management for emerging healing modalities

Our approach considers not only legal risk, but the values, cultural context, community relationships, and long-term mission behind the work.

The legal profession is overdue for its own healing

For Legal Professionals & Organizations

Lawyer burnout, secondary trauma, and the structural conditions that contribute to them require more than surface-level wellness programs. Through consulting, training, and speaking, we help build more sustainable, trauma-informed, and values-aligned approaches to legal practice.

Our services include:

  • Lawyer wellness program design
  • Trauma-informed legal practice training
  • Law firm culture transformation consulting
  • Speaking, workshops, and CLE programs
  • Healing Law Practice Audits
  • Train-the-Trainer programs

The Healing Law framework draws on trauma-informed practice, restorative justice principles, values-aligned business design, and the lived experience of practitioners transforming how they practice.

Inquire about consulting →

Schedule a consultation

Book a speaking engagement

How we work

Clear scope.
Transparent fees.

Depending on the work, we offer fixed-fee packages, hourly counsel, and ongoing subscriptions. We’ll establish the scope, recommended engagement model, and expected fees before you commit to working with us.

Our Anti-Oppression Client Services Program also provides special pricing for qualifying clients as part of our commitment to expanding access to legal services.

Let’s work together

Ready to take
the next step?

Tell us where you are in your journey, and we’ll help you determine the right next step.

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