our

expertise

Lean. Modern. Elite.

Optimal’s foundational expertise is elite legal advisory on corporate transactions (financings, exits), and general corporate and securities counsel.

Most of our clients work with us from inception through financing and exit. we ALSO regularly engage clients transitioning from other law firms, including solos struggling to scale with a client, or BigLaw clients looking for leaner advisory and closer attention from senior practitioners.

Our Expertise Includes:

Corporate & Securities

Outside General Counsel for Emerging Companies

Seed, Venture, and Private Equity Financings

Liquidity and M&A Transactions

Tax structuring (assisted by tax specialists)

Key Employee and Executive Compensation Matters

Equity Incentive Plans

Board Meetings and Corporate Governance

Complex Cap Table Management and Modeling

Licensing, Commercial, and IP Contracts

Venture and Commercial Debt Transactions

Cross-Border Emerging Tech Transactions

Areas of

PractiCe

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.