New York Corporate & Transactional
DP Counsel PLLC works directly with companies, founders, investors, fund sponsors, and international businesses to develop precise transaction structures, disciplined documentation, and practical legal strategies.
Practice Overview
Each practice connects transaction structure, governance, precise documentation, risk allocation, and execution within a coherent framework. The Firm maintains direct client engagement while coordinating qualified specialists and local counsel when a matter requires additional disciplines or non-U.S. advice.
The firm advises both organizations and individual stakeholders when their legal needs arise from a business, transaction, investment, ownership interest, or executive role.
Primary Capabilities
Core practices for structuring complex business decisions and carrying transactions from negotiation through closing and post-closing execution.
Stock & Asset Acquisitions | Diligence | Closing
Counsel on private-company acquisitions and divestitures, integrating transaction structure, diligence, definitive documentation, risk allocation, approvals, closing, and post-closing execution.
View practice details →SAFEs | Notes | Preferred Stock | Investor Rights
Company-side or investor-side counsel on venture financings, aligning economics, dilution, governance rights, securities compliance, capitalization, approvals, and closing execution.
View practice details →SAFEs | Notes | Preferred Equity | Reg D & Reg S
Counsel on SAFEs, convertible notes, preferred equity, and private placements, aligning investment terms with capitalization, governance, securities-law exemptions, approvals, and closing mechanics.
View practice details →SaaS | Software & APIs | Data | Transactional IP
Counsel on SaaS, software, API, data, AI, development, and platform transactions, integrating IP rights, implementation, security, service performance, commercial terms, and exit planning.
View practice details →Services | Supply & Manufacturing | Distribution | Strategic Arrangements
Drafting and negotiating services, supply, manufacturing, distribution, and strategic agreements that translate operating priorities into precise economics, performance standards, risk allocation, and exit rights.
View practice details →U.S. Structuring | Inbound Matters | Local-Counsel Coordination
U.S. counsel on cross-border acquisitions, investments, market entry, and expansion, coordinating entity structure, authority, funding, contracts, local counsel, and multi-jurisdictional closings.
View practice details →Coordinated legal support across the formation, financing, operation, and growth of emerging companies.
Integrated Client Solution
Coordinated counsel across formation, founder arrangements, governance, intellectual-property protection, commercial contracting, financings, and the legal transitions that accompany growth.
Supporting Workstreams
Focused capabilities that extend the Firm’s core corporate and transactional work into specific industries, assets, and operating relationships.
Formation | Founder Equity | Governance | Corporate Records
Corporate architecture for corporations, LLCs, holding companies, and subsidiaries, aligning ownership, authority, governance, capitalization, approvals, and internal reorganizations.
View practice details →Counsel on private funds, SPVs, co-investment and single-asset vehicles, coordinating sponsor architecture, offering documents, investor admission, governance, economics, and ongoing administration.
View practice details →Counsel on franchise classification, disclosure, distribution, dealer, reseller, and brand-licensing structures, aligning expansion strategy with channel rights, compliance, and exit terms.
View practice details →Transactional counsel on commercial acquisitions, dispositions, leases, property-holding structures, and real estate workstreams within broader corporate and cross-border transactions.
View practice details →Counsel on nonprofit formation, governance, board authority, conflicts, grants, affiliations, structural changes, records, and coordinated tax-exemption application support.
View practice details →Company-side counsel aligning employment and contractor agreements, compensation, confidentiality, intellectual-property ownership, workforce documentation, executive transitions, and transaction-related employment issues.
View practice details →Corporate and transactional counsel for digital asset and blockchain businesses, connecting investments, acquisitions, technology agreements, diligence, and transaction-specific regulatory coordination.
View practice details →Service Model
Continuing legal support aligned with a company’s operations, transactions, and decision-making.
Ongoing corporate counsel integrating governance, contracts, corporate records, legal-risk triage, specialist coordination, and transaction readiness under consistent operating standards.
View practice details →DP Counsel PLLC advises companies, founders, investors, fund sponsors, and international businesses. The firm also advises individual stakeholders when their legal needs arise from a business, transaction, investment, ownership interest, or executive role.
The firm's work includes mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private financings, corporate structuring and governance, technology transactions, and commercial contracts. Ongoing counsel supports a company's operations, transactions, and decision-making.
No. The firm provides U.S. legal services within the scope of its attorney's New York admission and applicable law. Where a matter requires Korean or other non-U.S. legal advice, appropriately qualified local counsel may be engaged, with coordination by DP Counsel PLLC as appropriate.
Start with a limited, non-confidential written inquiry. The firm reviews the parties, timing, and requested scope and, if the matter can be considered, requests next-step information. Do not submit confidential, privileged, or materially sensitive information before the firm confirms it may receive it. Representation begins only after conflicts review and a signed engagement agreement.