Sands Law Group is a transactional law firm representing founders, operators, and emerging-growth companies. We sit on the company side of the table — drafting the formation docs, negotiating the financings, papering the partnerships, and standing in as outside general counsel for clients who need a lawyer in the room before the lawyer is needed.
Get in touchEmbedded counsel for venture-stage and operating companies. We handle the everyday legal load that comes with running a real business — financings, hiring, vendor deals, partnership negotiations, and the periodic curveball — so leadership can stay focused on building.
Formation through exit. SAFEs and convertible notes, priced rounds, operating agreements, asset and stock purchase agreements, joinders, side letters, and the term sheets that precede them — drafted with an eye toward what comes next, not just what's on the page today.
Master services agreements, consulting agreements, licensing and affiliate deals, vendor and partnership agreements, NDAs, and the long tail of paperwork a growing company touches every week. Drafted to close, not to languish.
The point of a lawyer is to make the deal happen — quickly, cleanly, and on terms the client can live with for the next five years.
We are transactional lawyers, not litigators. The work is preventive: the agreement we draft today is what your future self either thanks us for or wishes we'd written differently. We take that seriously.
Most of our clients are founder-led companies — small enough that decisions move quickly, ambitious enough that the documents need to hold up under scrutiny later. We're comfortable on both sides of the table: drafting the form for our client to send, or redlining the form a counterparty sends to us. Either way, we move at the pace of the deal.
And because we live inside companies as outside general counsel, we are unusually attuned to the connections between documents — how the offer letter relates to the operating agreement, how the affiliate deal cascades into the privacy posture, how the lease guaranty interacts with the cap table. The work is networked, and so is the analysis.
Whether you need full outside general counsel, a single financing closed by Friday, or a second set of eyes on a contract a counterparty just sent over — start with an email. We read everything ourselves.
dsands@sandslawgroup.com