We're not another

Mediocre boutique firm

Lean. Modern. Elite.

We’re building what elite entrepreneurs and companies always wanted: top-tier strategic legal counsel, on a lean tech-enabled platform; and we have the loyalty of our elite client base to prove it.

Optimal’s Partners and Senior Attorneys have practiced in the country’s most elite Tech and CPG ecoystems; both within and across from the most well known top-tier law firms.

We left those firms to found Optimal because we saw a gap in the market for experienced strategic legal counsel, without the burdens and dead weight of traditional law firms. We build trusted long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and companies who understand that efficiency shouldn't mean rigidity and mediocre talent.

Our lean boutique model delivers tailored guidance from senior attorneys and specialists at substantially lower costs than traditional firms, leveraging cutting edge technology (including AI).

We believe in leveraging tech for efficiency and responsiveness, without allowing it to dictate or dilute how we practice.

Clients choose Optimal because their highest-stakes projects demand focused, flexible strategic attention from dedicated, trusted, elite counsel; not distracted and underequipped lawyers rapidly shuffling templates and scripts.

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FIRMS WE've trained At

and worked across From

Cooley

WSGR

Fenwick

Gunderson

goodwin

latham

orrick

dla

client

industries

Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

The foundational practice area of Optimal is our expertise in representing venture-backed emerging technology and CPG companies.

Consumer Packaged Goods

With a deep, national client base heavily represented in Austin, Denver, NYC, and California’s thriving CPG ecosystems, Optimal’s Partners are fully versed in the industry norms and expectations for startup and growth-stage CPG companies. Our clients include food and beverage, cannabis, fashion, DTC retail, and supplements.

Full Service Specialist Network

Sourcing the full spectrum of legal specialties from a single firm is unnecessary, and often counterproductive. Through decades of our lawyers’ collective experience, we’ve curated an elite network of niche-specialty attorneys covering the full spectrum of firm sizes and delivery models. Optimal clients get access to right-sized senior expertise, without the costs of traditional “one stop shop” approaches to full service.

Commercial & Technology Transactions

Our Commercial & Tech Transactions lawyers counsel clients on matters including OEM and Reseller Agreements, Licensing and SaaS, University Spin-Outs, TOS and Privacy, Manufacturing and Supply (including Co-Packing), Soft IP, as well as Marketing and Promotion.

Mergers & Acquisitions, Liquidity Transactions

We flexibly scale down for lean early-stage companies, but also scale up for larger M&A exits, with top-tier M&A lawyers leading those deals. Optimal clients do not compete for their attorneys’ attention with billion-dollar capital markets transactions. They have direct access to efficient M&A partners who’ve counselled clients on transactions up to 9-figures in exit size.

Life Sciences & Biotech

Life Science and Biotech entrepreneurs face a wide spectrum of legal issues and risks. Optimal’s Partners and Senior Attorneys have decades of cumulative experience advising biotech, pharma, and life science teams from the formation of their companies, through strategic and commercial transactions to high-stakes exits or liquidity transactions.

We are a national and Global firm

Serving clients internationally

Our key markets

Silicon Valley

Austin TX

New York City, NY

SEATTLE, WA

washington dc

Los Angeles, CA

Boston, MA

Denver, CO

mIAMI, fl

OUR CLIENTs HAVE

received funding from

accel

draper

sequoia

a16Z

FOUNDERS FUND

SUSA

BESSEMER

KHOSLA

KLEINER PERKINS

Y COMBINATOR

Dozens of other elite VC and PE firms

get in touch

For any inquiries, questions, or to explore how we can assist you, don't hesitate to get in touch with us.