A personal outside-counsel practice

Hi, I’m
Sagar.

I’m the outside general counsel for companies that don’t have their own legal team. Founders and boards keep me close so there’s a lawyer who already knows the business when a real decision comes up.

See what I do A bit about me

Sagar Patel, Esq.

Outside General Counsel

Federal & corporate law

Clients nationwide

How I practice

One lawyer who actually knows your business.

I’m your legal department.

I only take on a few companies at a time, and I’m genuinely selective about which ones. There’s a real intake process, because saying yes to you means I can give you actual, directed attention.

Being one of the few also means I get to know your company for real. I’m in the board meetings, in the contract work, and I’m who you call when a decision actually matters, not just when there’s a document to sign.

Practice focus

The range I cover.

I stay close to the decisions that actually shape a company: contracts, corporate records, financings, governance, and the federal questions that come up in between.

Outside general counsel

Ongoing counsel for companies and nonprofits that don’t have an in-house legal team.

Contract intake and review pipelines
Legal-risk triage and day-to-day decision support
Board and officer advising
Counsel integrated into meetings, workflows, and company email

Commercial & technology agreements

Plain-English drafting and strategic negotiation for the contracts a company relies on.

Software license, development, SaaS, and services agreements
IP ownership and transfer between affiliated entities
Revenue-sharing and partnership structures
NDAs, consulting agreements, strategic alliances, founder negotiation, and redlining

Corporate governance & Delaware entities

Governance, entity maintenance, and corporate records, including specialized Delaware corporation and LLC work.

Formations, charters and amendments, bylaws, and operating agreements
Board and stockholder resolutions, written consents, and defective-act ratification
Fiduciary-duty, conflict, disclosure, recusal, and disinterested-approval processes
Managing-member, officer, and control transitions; corporate-records remediation

Startup & venture finance

The financing documents and corporate record behind early-stage and closely held companies.

Convertible notes and bridge rounds: drafting, amendments, expansions, conversions, and ratification
Cap-table cleanup and reconciliation
Diligence readiness and data-room preparation
Equity plans, ESOP expansion, and profits-interest structures
Subscription documents, consents, and federal private-placement awareness

Federal regulatory coordination

Coordinating the legal side when federal rules and a real product run into each other.

FDA-regulated product and device milestone coordination
Adverse-event, product-safety, and incident response
Evidence preservation, notifications, insurance, and stakeholder communications
Federal tax-adjacent planning coordinated with the company’s CPA

Nonprofit & healthcare business counsel

Governance and business counsel for mission-driven organizations and physician-owned companies.

501(c)(3) and public-benefit-corporation governance
Conflict policies, board records, and excess-benefit avoidance concepts
Physician-owned and multi-state locum tenens LLC structures
Staffing contracts, malpractice-coverage structures, and compensation frameworks coordinated with tax professionals

Working together

What you can expect from me.

You always know the next step.

You get organized document packages and a clear plan, so everyone knows who owns what and by when.

I keep it steady in a crisis.

When something goes wrong, I coordinate the legal side across the boards, regulators, insurers, and specialists who all get pulled in at once.

I use modern tools, carefully.

AI-assisted review and contract analysis make heavy document work faster. The judgment about what actually matters stays with me.

You can actually reach me.

No gatekeepers and no account team. When you email or call, it’s me, usually the same day.

I’ll tell you when you don’t need me.

If something’s simpler handled another way, I’ll say so. I’d rather keep your trust than pad an invoice.

About

It’s just me,
on purpose.

Outside General Counsel

I’m a transactional lawyer and general counsel. My work is mostly corporate and commercial: governance and equity, note financings and cap-table cleanup, and the contracts a company runs on, including cross-border and regulated deals for technology and medical device companies.

I also handle contracts, leases, and real property work for a nonprofit with a large real estate portfolio. I do all of it as outside general counsel, for a small number of clients at a time, nationwide. I’m licensed in Hawaii, and when a matter needs locally admitted or litigation counsel, I bring in the right specialist.

Experience: General counsel and contracts leadership across technology, medical device, and nonprofit organizations
Board service: Director and corporate secretary for a national animal-welfare nonprofit
Education: J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School; admitted in Hawaii, 2019

Write to me directly

So, what’s going on?

Give me a short, non-confidential overview of the situation. When you hit the button, your email opens with everything filled in so you can read it over before it sends.

sagar@sagar.law

sagar.law

Hi, I’mSagar.