We help startups and small businesses deal with day-to-day legal needs on a part-time, as-needed basis, with no minimum fees, retainer (usually) or time commitments, at intentionally under-market rates to ensure accessibility.

If your startup already has in-house counsel, let FTE Legal free up bandwidth. Our competencies are wide-ranging, including contracts, governance, financing, privacy and data compliance, employment matters, and buy- and sell-side acquisitions, with particular expertise  with Fintech and 'as-a-Service' business models (e.g., SaaS, BaaS, PaaS).

Where We Step In:

• Contract Overflow: Avoid bottlenecks by letting us draft and negotiate your day-to-day customer, vendor and partner contracts.
• Contract Forms: We help businesses streamline their internal contract forms to reduce negotiation friction so your business can get deals done faster and wither fewer headaches.
• Terms of Use & Privacy Policies: Let us handle new product and service terms of use, and updates to your existing ones. As certified privacy experts, we can also ensure your privacy policies and data use agreements are up to snuff.
• Employment Matters: Need to update your internal policies or launch a new option plan? Let us take that off your plate.

Deal lawyers at our core, FTE Legal takes a practical approach to drafting and negotiating contracts. We help you streamline contracts to avoid deal friction while protecting what's really important to your business.

We also work with the other side instead of against them to get the parties to a mutually acceptable agreement as quickly and painlessly as possible. Let us show you how we like to get deals done.

Where We Step In:

• Commercial contracts, including technology transactions, equipment leases, sales contracts, vendor agreements, and most others.
• SaaS, BaaS and other 'as-a-Service' contracts, IP licensing and protection agreements and policies that make sense to you and those you serve, not just to other lawyers.
• Collaborative negotiation practices that aim to minimize needless markups and billable time.

We help founders, owners, and operators navigate business acquisitions, reorganizations, sales, and mergers without getting buried in fees or red tape. Whether you’re structuring your first deal or managing an exit, we focus on practical, cost-effective execution—with scalable support when things get complex.

Where We Step In:

• Deal negotiation and diligence that aligns with your goals.
• Negotiating LOIs, purchase agreements, and transition terms.
• Partnering with tax, employment, or real estate co-counsel as needed, and always without markups, referral fees, or other fee-sharing practices. What they charge is what you pay, period.
• Closing support without the sticker shock.

If you're a small business owner, you already know the legal market wasn’t built with you in mind.

We give small businesses serious legal firepower—without the BigLaw overhead or the patronizing "small client" treatment.

Where We Step In:

• Practical formation advice and help that get you up and running quickly.
• Solid contract templates for your specific needs that are built to allow maximum flexibility without having to rope in counsel for every deal.
• Contract reviews that catch hidden traps.
• Ongoing advice to keep you growing, not stressing.