Overview
Running a business comes with constant legal challenges, but not every company needs—or can justify the cost of—a full-time, in-house legal team. Our fractional general counsel services give you the dedicated legal support you need, when you need it, without the overhead of a full-time hire. Whether you’re managing contracts, handling employment issues, navigating regulatory compliance, or preparing for growth, we provide practical, business-minded legal guidance tailored to your company’s needs.
With deep experience across industries, we act as a seamless extension of your team, offering proactive advice and risk management to keep your business on track. Whether you need ongoing legal support or help with a specific issue, we provide the right level of service—efficient, strategic, and always aligned with your goals.
Our personalized services give our clients cost-effective access to highly-experienced and collaborative lawyers who know your business and priorities, and who can seamlessly provide prompt, responsive, and affordable advice without delay. This flexible option offers dedicated, focused, and confidential services to supplement your legal staffing needs on an as-needed basis without hiring additional personnel. Our services are flexible and designed with your company in mind, so the solutions we provide are designed specifically to meet your needs.
Our corporate work has been recognized by Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, Best Law Firms, Super Lawyers, and more.
Bailey Glasser's Outside Supplemental General Counsel Service offerings include:
• Commercial Contracts - drafting, amending, reviewing, and negotiating all forms of commercial contracts, including joint venture agreements, service agreements, and operations contracts
• Corporate Governance - advising on board and corporate governance issues, as well as developing “best practices” policies, including virtual data rooms for all key company documents
• Intellectual Property - helping you evaluate options for patents, trademarks, copyrights and licensing options – both as a licenser or a licensee
• Corporate and Securities Matters - advising on corporate transactions such as investments, joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, and securities law matters
• Finance - reviewing current finance arrangements, including opportunities to help raise additional capital, thereby increasing “optionality”: positioning the company for the most efficient debt and equity structures, as well as assisting with debt and equity transactions
• Regulatory - ensuring ongoing regulatory and licensing compliance and obtaining necessary licenses and authorizations
• Employment - advising on a wide variety of labor and employment law matters
• Government Contracting - evaluating options (direct sales and/or sub-contracting) for positioning your company for sales (products and/or services) to the world’s largest customer, the U.S. Government
• Tax - proactively assists on a wide range of tax strategies to navigate the tax code including planning and negotiating tax-free acquisitions, spin-offs, and joint venture arrangements as well as representing clients when State and Federal authorities believe there are tax discrepancies
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- Represented a family-owned business in restructuring company holdings and operating divisions, allocating duties, responsibilities, and economic value among family members; designed manageable reporting requirements to drive effectiveness; worked with accountants to manage tax efficiency and planning; and navigated (and occasionally refereed) family member disagreements about succession planning, as well as other difficult and sensitive family matters.
- Represented one founder of a digital marketing company in a “corporate divorce” when the owners’ vision for the future diverged. Negotiated attractive payment terms, including adjustments, tied to future events; limited company’s rights to borrow funds while the promissory note was outstanding; managed the division of clients and staff; and crafted narrow non-compete obligations.
- Provided strategic advice and counsel on government contracting and immigration matters, as well as potential acquisition structures, for a leading European fixed satellite service provider.
- Represented a serial telecoms and tech entrepreneur for decades, serving as his outside general counsel, helping him form companies, raise capital, and sell several of his businesses. We stood by him when he ran low on funds, helped him find investors, and, most recently, worked with him to rapidly scale a small company into being a very large company in the digital marketplace.
- Served as interim CEO for a start-up medical device company, leading completion of the seed round as well as recruitment of key employees and the Board of Advisors; led all major contracting and corporate governance issues; managed patent and trademark filings; and engaged C-level team to complete manufacturing of devices in China.
- Represented a family-owned business from its incorporation to the eventual sale of the company to a large European private equity firm. Helped to properly structure the company, as well as its contracts and financing, to make it an attractive acquisition target. When the investment banking firm backed out of helping to sell the business, our attorneys stepped in, found the buyer, and closed the sale.
- Worked alongside management to diversify, strengthen, and expand the investment portfolio of a multi-generational family office with large mineral holdings by broadening their investments in traditional industries, like commercial real estate development, and in emerging sectors, such as renewable and solar energy projects.
- Served as outside general counsel for a family-owned pink sheet traded company, resolving numerous securities law issues and corporate issues. Creatively solved very complex corporate and tax issues so the company could grow and raise capital. Helped them restructure, get their audits completed, borrow funds, and eventually sell the business to a large private equity firm, leveraging Section 1202 stock to help significantly reduce their taxes.
- Facilitated a joint venture partnership with three spectrum holders/operators when a Finnish national telephone company struggled to find a joint venture partner for the US wireless market. This resulted in a JV with Ariel/US Cellular which led to a roll-up of all of the U.S. GSM carriers, ultimately resulting in a sale to Deutsche Telecom, now T-Mobile.
- Represented first lien lenders in connection with the acquisition of certain coal mining assets in a Section 363 sale under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Advise the company on all legal issues related to its business including contract negotiations with customers and vendors, environmental permitting, and regulatory compliance, land acquisitions and leasing, corporate governance, risk management, acquisitions and divestitures.
