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Start-Ups & Venture Counsel

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Startup & Venture Counsel

Legal infrastructure for founders building, raising, and scaling.

Moorinvest Counsel supports founders and early-stage companies with the legal structure, documents, and commercial arrangements needed to form, raise capital, issue equity, protect ownership, contract with customers, and prepare for future diligence.

Founder legal work should support the business, not slow it down.

Early legal decisions shape ownership, fundraising, IP, commercial relationships, and future investor review. When company records, equity arrangements, and product documentation are handled clearly from the beginning, founders can move with more confidence and fewer cleanup issues later.

Moorinvest Counsel works with founders on both defined projects and open-ended advisory matters, depending on the scope, timing, and complexity of the work.

Core Support Areas

Legal support across the founder lifecycle.

Formation & Founder Structure

Entity formation, founder arrangements, governance documents, ownership structure, founder equity, vesting considerations, and early corporate setup.

Fundraising Preparation

Support with SAFE, note, equity financing, term sheet, investor documentation, financing preparation, and legal readiness before or during a capital raise.

Equity, Cap Table & Shareholder Matters

Support with equity issuance questions, shareholder/member changes, advisor or contractor equity, ownership records, corporate approvals, and related documentation.

Corporate & IP Readiness

Support with organizing corporate and IP materials, founder and contractor IP assignments, ownership-chain issues, data room preparation, and readiness before financing or shareholder changes.

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Commercial & Product Documentation

Support with SaaS agreements, Terms of Service, customer contracts, vendor agreements, product development agreements, contractor agreements, and platform documentation.

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Restructuring & Cleanup

Support with LLC to corporation transitions, ownership cleanup, document organization, founder changes, corporate record updates, and preparation for future investor or legal review.

Common Founder Matters

Where founders often need legal support.

Forming or restructuring the company
Support may include entity selection, formation documents, governance documents, founder ownership structure, LLC to corporation transitions, and setup for future fundraising or equity issuances.
Preparing for a SAFE, note, or equity financing
Support may include reviewing or preparing financing documents, helping organize investor materials, identifying corporate/IP readiness issues, and advising on the legal documentation needed for a financing process.
Bringing on founders, advisors, contractors, or employees
Support may include founder agreements, advisor agreements, contractor agreements, confidentiality terms, IP assignment language, equity arrangements, and documentation around ownership and deliverables.
Cleaning up cap table, ownership, or IP records
Support may include identifying missing approvals, unsigned documents, unclear ownership records, informal equity promises, contractor/IP gaps, and other issues that can affect future financing or shareholder changes.
Preparing contracts and platform terms
Support may include SaaS agreements, Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, customer/vendor agreements, product development documents, and commercial templates aligned with how the company sells and operates.
Value

The goal is a cleaner foundation for capital, ownership, and growth.

Startup legal work is most valuable when it helps founders make decisions, document ownership clearly, reduce future diligence friction, and support the company’s commercial and fundraising strategy.

Cleaner ownership structure

Founder equity, advisor arrangements, contractor rights, and IP ownership should be documented before ambiguity becomes expensive.

Better fundraising readiness

Organized corporate records, financing documents, cap table support, and IP assignments make the company easier to diligence.

Practical commercial execution

Contracts, platform terms, and documentation should reflect how the company actually sells, builds, partners, and operates.

Thinking ahead of fundraising or new shareholders?

The Corporate & IP Gap Check is a $550 limited-scope review for founders who want to identify corporate record and IP ownership gaps before fundraising, issuing equity, or accepting new shareholders.

It includes a written gap report and a 20-minute debrief call to walk through the findings, answer questions, and identify practical next steps.

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Engagement Structure

Scoped based on the stage and the work required.

Intro consultation

A free 20-minute introductory call to understand the company, stage, legal issue, timing, and whether Moorinvest Counsel is the right fit.

Scope review

Moorinvest Counsel reviews the matter for conflicts, suitability, timing, and whether the work is best handled hourly, through a fixed fee, or through a limited-scope review.

Engagement letter

If the matter is accepted, Moorinvest Counsel sends an engagement letter defining the scope, fee structure, assumptions, and payment process.

Work begins

The matter proceeds according to the agreed scope, whether that involves drafting, review, advisory work, financing support, corporate cleanup, or documentation.

Fixed-fee arrangements may be available where the scope, assumptions, deliverables, and timeline can be clearly defined. Open-ended negotiations, evolving facts, investor process support, or broader advisory work may be handled hourly or under a separately scoped engagement.

Need startup legal support for formation, fundraising, equity, or documentation?

Book a free 20-minute introductory consultation to discuss the company, the legal issue, timing, and whether the work is best handled hourly, through a fixed fee, or as a limited-scope review.

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