Business Counsel for Decisions That Shape Enterprise Value.
Pacini Law advises founders, growth companies, and investors on the agreements, relationships, and operating decisions that determine how a company is built, governed, financed, protected, and positioned for what comes next. We serve as ongoing outside business counsel or step in for a defined transaction, agreement, claim, or need, bringing senior judgment and whole-company perspective to decisions that affect the company’s operations, growth, and value.
Business Counsel for Building Value, Not Managing Process.
Business Counsel Across the Company Lifecycle.
Legal issues rarely stay in one lane. A financing can reshape governance. An employment decision can affect ownership, control, and culture. A commercial agreement can allocate operational, insurance, and litigation risk. We help clients understand those connections before they harden into constraints, so decisions made today preserve leverage, reduce avoidable risk, and support the company’s next stage of growth.
What We Handle
Formation, Ownership & Governance
Entity formation and operating architecture
Operating, shareholder, and investor-rights agreements
Founder, board, investor, and control rights
Governance processes and decision authority
Subsidiary, intercompany, and platform structures
Financing & Strategic Transactions
Equity, debt, and bridge financings
Credit facilities, notes, and intercompany loans
Investment documents and transaction support
Diligence, risk allocation, and negotiation strategy
Transaction structuring aligned with governance, financing, and operating objectives
Insurance, Indemnity & Claims
Insurance requirements in commercial and financing documents
Coverage analysis and claims strategy
Tendering claims and coordinating with brokers, carriers, and counterparties
Indemnity provisions, risk transfer, and loss allocation
Commercial Agreements & Leasing
Customer, services, supplier, and vendor agreements
Commercial leases
Technology, licensing, platform, and distribution terms
Strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and channel relationships
Confidentiality, IP, indemnity, limitation-of-liability, and dispute provisions
Contracts drafted for practical performance, clear risk allocation, and business continuity
Employment & Executive Matters
Offer letters, employment agreements, and executive arrangements
Equity, incentive, vesting, and founder-compensation issues
Confidentiality, IP assignment, restrictive covenant, and mobility issues
Executive transitions, separations, and negotiation strategy
Employment advice for hiring, management, executive transitions, and developing workforce issues
Ongoing Business Counsel & Compliance
Day-to-day legal judgment for founders, executives, boards, and investors
Contract negotiation and issue escalation
Coordination with accountants, brokers, investors, lenders, and other advisors
Early assessment of operational, legal, insurance, and dispute risk
Regulatory compliance, including healthcare and fintech matters
Multi-state operations and compliance
Outside business-counsel relationships scaled to the company’s needs
The Right Role for the Business.
Growing companies need legal judgment that matches the moment, but not every company needs a full-time in-house lawyer and not every legal need requires an outside general counsel relationship. Pacini Law structures the role around what the business actually needs: ongoing counsel, support for a defined matter, or focused judgment alongside an existing legal team. The structure changes. The objective does not: practical advice, senior attention, and a clear understanding of the business.
Outside Business Counsel
An ongoing senior-counsel relationship for legal judgment as the company operates, grows, negotiates, hires, finances, governs, and manages risk.
A Defined Matter
Targeted support for a specific transaction, agreement, financing, employment issue, insurance claim, commercial dispute, or other business need.
Alongside Your Team
Senior, business-focused judgment that complements in-house counsel, existing outside counsel, deal counsel, or other advisors when a matter needs additional perspective, capacity, or dispute-informed risk assessment.
Business Judgment Informed by Trial Experience.
We advise on business decisions with an understanding of how agreements are interpreted, how leverage is created or lost, and how disputes unfold when relationships break down. That perspective helps clients draft stronger contracts, allocate risk more deliberately, preserve options, and make decisions that are built to hold up under pressure.
Tova Goldring
Co-Counsel | Corporate & General Counsel
Founder, TG Law, LLC
Tova brings more than 15 years of experience across large-firm practice, in-house legal leadership, and private practice. She advises founders and growth companies, including private-equity-backed companies, on the legal work required to build, operate, and protect a business.
Tova maintains her independent practice through TG Law, LLC and works with Pacini Law as co-counsel, adding experienced corporate and general-counsel support to Pacini Law’s Business Counsel practice.
The Business Counsel team brings together Tova Goldring’s corporate and general-counsel experience with Steven J. Pacini’s and Samuel Barrows’s dispute-informed judgment on contracts, indemnity, insurance, risk allocation, governance, and consequential business decisions.
Start With a Business-Counsel Conversation.
Whether you need ongoing outside business counsel, targeted support for a transaction or agreement, or senior judgment on a consequential business decision, the first step is a direct conversation about the company, the objective, and the path forward.