The company history needs to be made whole.
A cap table does not reconcile. A financing was never fully ratified. Consents, appointments, or ownership records are missing. I organize the record, identify the gaps, and build the path to a clean file.
A personal outside-counsel practice
Hi, I’m
Sagar.
I help the people running companies make careful legal decisions without losing sight of the business.
Sagar Patel, Esq.
Outside General CounselOutside General Counsel
Federal & corporate law
Clients nationwide
How I practice
One lawyer.The whole business.
You work with me.
I learn the company.
I stay with the thread.
My clients do not need a lawyer who appears only when a document needs signing. They need someone who understands the people, the history, and what is at stake in the next decision.
I work as part of the team: in board meetings, in the contract flow, in the cap table, and in the moments when a clear plan matters more than a legal memo.
— Sagar
The work
What tends to land
on my desk.
A board decision needs a careful process.
When fiduciary duties, conflicts, control, or officer transitions are involved, the process matters as much as the paper. I help the people in the room understand what must be disclosed, documented, and decided.
Legal work is slowing the business down.
Contracts are arriving from every direction, founders are negotiating in real time, and no one owns the legal queue. I create a practical intake, review, and risk-triage rhythm that fits the team.
Something happened and the response cannot drift.
An incident can put boards, regulators, insurers, specialists, and stakeholders on different clocks. I keep the legal workstream calm, sequenced, and documented while the business responds.
Practice focus
One trusted counsel.
The whole company in view.
I stay close to the decisions that shape the business—from contracts and corporate records to financings, governance, federal regulatory coordination, and the legal questions that arrive between major transactions.
01 Outside general counsel
Ongoing counsel for companies and nonprofits that do not 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
02 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
03 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
04 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
- Equity plans, ESOP expansion, and profits-interest structures
- Subscription documents, consents, and federal private-placement awareness
05 Federal regulatory coordination
Organized counsel where federal rules, product issues, and business operations meet.
- 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
06 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
What working together feels like
Clear ownership.
Plain English.
No disappearing act.
I make the next step obvious.
Indexed document packages, action plans, and timelines show everyone who is doing what—and when.
I stay calm when the room is not.
During an incident or crisis, I coordinate the legal work across boards, regulators, insurers, and outside specialists.
I use modern tools with lawyer judgment.
AI-assisted review, contract analysis, and records audits can make complex document work more efficient. Ethics and professional judgment remain in control.
About
Solo
by design.
Outside General Counsel
When we work together, you are working with me—not a rotating team learning the file again.
I serve startups, closely held and family businesses, physician practices, and nonprofits nationwide. My work spans federal and corporate law, governance, contracts, financing, and the day-to-day decisions that come with running an organization.
I am licensed in the State of Hawaii, Bar No. 011219. When a matter requires locally admitted or litigation counsel, I coordinate with the appropriate specialist co-counsel.
- Board perspective
- Director and corporate secretary for a national animal-welfare nonprofit
- Mission work
- Pro bono service for mission-driven organizations
- Also
- Commissioned notary, National Notary Association member, and ongoing continuing legal education
Write to me directly
What is the business
facing next?
Start with a short, non-confidential overview. Your email application will open with the details prepared for you to review before sending.
sagar.esquire@gmail.comsagar.law