SERVICES
Bound Legal Strategy helps startups grow and scale. Our services are designed to meet the most common startup risk issues, including commercial transactions, data privacy, corporate, employment and advertising and media matters.
GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICE
At the core of Bound Legal Strategy is its General Counsel service, which provides strategic day-to-day advice and guidance to founders and management teams. We partner with client teams to address commercial transactions, intellectual property and data privacy management, routine corporate governance and capitalization, and employment issues. With respect to specialty matters outside of Bound Legal's expertise, such as tax, litigation, patent or trademark prosecution or immigration, we will project manage client's existing counsel relationships or provide clients with references to credible specialists.
COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
The commercial transactions practice covers the full range of transactions required of a startup scaling its business. Whether developing form agreements or negotiating complex partnerships the default approach on the transactions side is to streamline deal workflow and reduce closing time while ensuring a baseline of protection as to the organization’s strategic interests. The set of transaction types covered by this practice area includes:
Outsourcing and supply agreements,
Enterprise customer agreements
Strategic alliances and joint ventures
Reseller, sponsorship and distribution
Agency and other brand-related agreements
Licensing agreements
NDAs
Consulting agreements,
Standardized service terms (such as consumer terms of use, privacy policies, contest and sweepstake rules, etc.)​
CORPORATE
The corporate practice provides general corporate counseling and business law advice to companies on a wide spectrum of corporate matters issues common to start ups, such as:
Entity selection and formation
Capital structures and employee equity management
409A valuations and 83B filings
Corporate governance, board matters and fiduciary duties
Equity and debt capital-raising transactional issues
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW
The employment practice addresses a broad range of routine employment law matters and principally includes form drafting and compliance guidance on matters such as:
Offer letters and consulting agreements
Confidentiality and invention assignment agreements
Sales commission plans and other bonus arrangements
Employee handbooks and personnel policies
Employment contracts
as well practical counseling on day-to-day issues such as:
Employee solicitation or competition restraints
Wage-and-hour and equal pay compliance and non-discrimination regulation
Leaves of absence
Reductions in force and related compliance
Terminations and performance management practices
Where an employment or labor law matters requires subject matter or jurisdiction specific expertise we can help project manage specialty counsel. ​
DATA PRIVACY
Bound Legal Strategy assists clients in managing the risks associated with the collection, use and distribution of electronically stored information, particularly personal information. The practice balances a client’s overall business objectives against a client’s industry sector, data subjects, data use requirements, and jurisdiction and covers guidance and documentation for:
CCPA and GDPR compliance and related disclosures and practices
Defensible and adaptive data privacy frameworks
Regulatory and sector-specific issues related to COPPA, FCRA, Privacy Shield, and PCI DSS
Cyber insurance evaluation
Data breach processes and notifications
Email and telemarketing regulations (such as CAN-SPAM Act and TCPA)
Integrated privacy and data security due diligence and support in technology transactions
ADVERTISING & MARKETING
The Advertising practice focuses on the review of compliance issues arising from concepts and programs for advertising, promotions and marketing in digital media. Guidance is provided in matters such as:
Sweepstakes
FTC compliance
Blogging and Social Media Policies
Influencers and Celebrity endorsements