Litigation
Complex Commercial Litigation
Federal and state court litigation, arbitration, and regulatory disputes for businesses facing serious matters. Our work has spanned securities, employment, real estate, technology, and consumer-protection litigation, at every stage from pre-suit investigation through trial and appeal.
- ‖Regulatory enforcement actions and consent decrees
- ‖Employment discrimination and wage-and-hour defense
- ‖Trademark and trade-secret disputes
- ‖Breach of contract and commercial disputes
- ‖Securities-fraud litigation, plaintiff and defense
- ‖Commercial arbitration (AAA, JAMS, ICC)
Outside Counsel, Inside
Fractional General Counsel Services
Fractional general counsel services for companies that need senior in-house judgment without a senior in-house hire. Delivered through Your Fractional General Counsel™ (YFGC.AI) on transparent hour-block pricing, with a dedicated client portal, an AI-augmented workflow, and a senior attorney on every matter from day one.
- ‖Commercial contracts: customer, vendor, partnership
- ‖Employment: agreements, terminations, equity
- ‖Board, governance, and equity-compensation support
- ‖Privacy and product-counsel review
- ‖Litigation oversight and outside-counsel management
- ‖Compliance program build-out
Transactions
Corporate Transactions & Financings
Venture financings, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases, and equity compensation programs. As in-house GC, Jesse closed more than $130M of growth financing for a single portfolio company — experience that translates directly to fractional general counsel services for today's clients.
- ‖Series C ($40M), Series D ($50M), bridge ($25M), venture debt ($15M)
- ‖SAFEs, convertible notes, priced rounds
- ‖Joint ventures and partnership structures
- ‖M&A and asset purchases (both sides of the table)
- ‖Equity compensation plans and option grants
- ‖Founder, advisor, and employment agreements
Compliance
Regulatory & Compliance
End-to-end regulatory strategy for companies operating in heavily regulated verticals. As GC at two venture-backed companies, Jesse built compliance programs spanning privacy, payments, and securities laws — including for products at the frontier of digital assets and virtual experiences.
- ‖GDPR and CCPA privacy programs
- ‖COPPA compliance for products with under-13 users
- ‖Payments regulation and money-transmission analysis
- ‖Securities law, including security-token offerings
- ‖State and federal regulatory strategy and engagement
- ‖Anti-corruption, sanctions, and AML
Real Estate
Real Estate & Joint Ventures
Multi-family real estate joint ventures, development financing structures, and complex landlord/tenant and regulatory work. Drawn from experience structuring more than $100M of real-estate-backed JVs and partnerships as VP & General Counsel of a Series D proptech company.
- ‖Multi-family real estate joint ventures
- ‖Development and acquisition financing structures
- ‖Commercial leasing and tenancy disputes
- ‖State and city regulatory work in residential housing
- ‖Acquisitions and dispositions of stabilized assets
IP
Intellectual Property
Trademark prosecution, copyright, trade-secret strategy, and IP licensing — particularly in coexistence, joint-venture, and brand-collaboration contexts where the negotiation matters as much as the filing.
- ‖Trademark prosecution and oppositions
- ‖Copyright registration and enforcement
- ‖Trade-secret protection programs
- ‖IP licensing and coexistence agreements
- ‖Brand and influencer collaboration agreements
- ‖Open-source policy and review
Employment
Employment Law
Counsel to both companies and senior executives on the full employment lifecycle — from offer letters and IP assignments through equity compensation, performance management, terminations, and discrimination defense.
- ‖Executive employment and separation agreements
- ‖IP assignment and confidentiality agreements
- ‖Equity compensation and 83(b) elections
- ‖Handbooks and policy build-out
- ‖Internal investigations
- ‖Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation defense
Appellate
Appellate & High-Stakes Litigation
Amicus briefs at the highest state courts, Article 78 proceedings, and consumer-protection actions. The kind of matter where the framing of a single argument can shape an entire docket — handled with the same craft the firm brings to a commercial dispute.
- ‖Amicus briefs to the New York Court of Appeals
- ‖Article 78 proceedings
- ‖Consumer-protection and fraud actions
- ‖High-stakes appellate strategy