Integrated Client Solution
Startups & Emerging Companies
Coordinated counsel across formation, founder arrangements, governance, intellectual-property protection, commercial contracting, financings, and the legal transitions that accompany growth.
U.S. Corporate and Transactional Counsel for Companies, Founders, Owners, and Investors.
DP Counsel advises on U.S. and cross-border M&A, private financings, corporate governance, technology transactions, and commercial contracts. We structure each matter, align the governing documents, and guide it through negotiation, signing, closing, and implementation.
Founder & Managing Attorney | DP Counsel PLLC
Daehoon Park
Daehoon Park is a corporate and transactional lawyer admitted to practice in New York and the founder and managing attorney of DP Counsel PLLC. He advises companies, founders, executives, business owners, investors, and fund sponsors on corporate and transactional matters involving U.S. law, whether domestic or cross-border. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and other private financings, corporate structuring, ownership and governance arrangements, commercial contracts, and technology transactions.
Admitted in New York
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Representative Matters
PRIVATE FINANCING
Rule 506(c) Fund and Offering Documentation
The Firm advised the sponsor on fund and offering documentation for a Rule 506(c) private offering, including accredited-investor verification and Reg D compliance.
Private Funds & Investment Vehicles
SOFTWARE ACQUISITION
Software Business Purchase Agreement
The Firm advised on the acquisition of a software business, focusing on the purchase documentation, transferred business assets, software-related rights and continuing operational arrangements.
Mergers & Acquisitions
CROSS-BORDER MANUFACTURING
Asia Manufacturing, OEM Supply and Trademark Licensing
The Firm advised a U.S. hardware company on coordinated manufacturing, OEM supply, and trademark-licensing documentation for production in Asia, addressing production assets, intellectual property, quality, and supply-chain risk.
Commercial ContractsCross-Border Transactions
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Primary Capabilities
Core Practices
Mergers & Acquisitions
Counsel to buyers and sellers in stock and asset acquisitions, from transaction structure and diligence through negotiation, closing, and post-closing implementation.
Venture Capital
Counsel to emerging companies and venture investors on financing structure, investment documents, governance rights, securities compliance, approvals, capitalization records, and closings.
Private Financings
Structuring SAFEs, convertible notes, preferred equity, and private placements under Regulation D exemptions, Regulation S offshore-transaction provisions, and applicable state regimes, including Form D notice filings where required.
Technology Transactions
Allocating IP, data, security, implementation, service-performance, and commercial responsibility across SaaS, software, API, AI, and platform transactions.
Commercial Contracts
Drafting and negotiating revenue, procurement, production, distribution, and strategic operating relationships with defined economics, performance standards, risk allocation, and exit terms.
Cross-Border Transactions
U.S. counsel to domestic and international businesses, founders, and investors on cross-border acquisitions, investments, market entry, and expansion, coordinating U.S. entities and transaction documents with foreign ownership, authority, funding, operations, and closing requirements.
Who We Advise
Counsel for Businesses—and the People Behind Them
DP Counsel represents companies, founders, executives, shareholders, investors, and business owners in matters involving ownership, governance, financing, compensation, acquisitions, exits, and commercial relationships.
Representation is defined separately for each engagement and is subject to conflicts review.
Publications
Selected Insights
Corporate Structuring & Governance · July 2026
Founder Equity Before the First Financing: Vesting, 83(b) Elections, IP Ownership, and Cap-Table Integrity
Founder equity is not merely a percentage allocation. The legal package must align issuance, vesting, tax elections, intellectual-property ownership, approvals, and stock records before outside capital is introduced.
Read Insight →Mergers & Acquisitions · June 2026
Earnouts in Private M&A: Turning a Valuation Gap into an Enforceable Payment Mechanism
An earnout can bridge disagreement over future performance, but only if the metric, accounting rules, operating covenants, information rights, payment mechanics, and dispute process form a single coherent system.
Read Insight →Featured Analysis · Private Financings
Seed Preferred Stock Financing: A Closing Checklist for Founders and Investors
This guide provides a structured closing checklist for seed preferred stock financings, helping founders and investors navigate the transition from term sheet to final execution while maintaining corporate hygiene and regulatory compliance.
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Industries
Transactional counsel informed by the commercial and regulatory context of the industries in which our clients operate.
New Matter Inquiries
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