PRACTICE AREAS

Choosing and properly establishing a legal entity is one of the first significant decisions a founder makes. We help clients create a structure that reflects the company’s ownership, financing plans, management, and long-term objectives.

Our services include:

• Entity Formation
• Bylaws, operating agreements and organizational consents
• Founder stock issuances
• Vesting and repurchase arrangements
• Founder departures and ownership changes
• Board and stockholder approvals
• Corporate record maintenance
• Foreign qualifications and compliance
• Equity and capitalization documentation 

We help early-stage companies prepare for and navigate fundraising and other strategic opportunities.

Our services include:

• SAFE agreements
• Convertible notes and early-stage financing documents
• Investor rights and side letters
• Due-diligence preparation and response
• Corporate and contract cleanup
• Financing-related board and stockholder approvals
• Strategic partnership and investment agreements
• Coordination with securities, tax and financial advisors

Consumer brands operate within a complex network of federal and state requirements. A claim that appears straightforward from a marketing perspective may carry regulatory, litigation, retailer, or investor risk.

We assist with:

• Product regulatory classification
• Food, dietary supplement and cosmetic issues
• Label and packaging review
• Ingredient and substantiation considerations
• Health, wellness and performance claims
• “Natural,” “clean,” “healthy” and similar claims
• Environmental and sustainability claims
• Testimonials and endorsements
• Influencer disclosures
• Comparative advertising
• Promotional campaigns
• Website and social-media claims
• Regulatory and consumer-protection risk assessments

We help clients establish clear, workable agreements with the people and organizations on which their businesses depend.

Our work includes:

• Manufacturing and co-packing agreements
• Ingredient, component and packaging supplier agreements
• Vendor and procurement agreements
• Distribution and wholesale agreements
• Broker and sales representative agreements
• Retailer agreements
• Professional service and consulting agreements
• Technology and SaaS agreements
• Licensing agreements
• Collaboration and strategic partnership agreements
• Nondisclosure agreements
• Influencer and affiliate agreements 

A company’s website is both a sales channel and a source of legal obligations.

We help clients evaluate and prepare:

• Website terms of use
• Privacy policies
• Cookie and tracking disclosures
• Subscription terms
• Automatic-renewal disclosures
• Promotional and discount practices
• Shipping and return policies
• SMS and email marketing practices
• Consumer consent flows
• Accessibility risk considerations
• Vendor data-processing provisions

For companies with recurring legal needs, Soteria Law provides flexible outside general counsel support.

Rather than engaging a new lawyer for each question, clients have access to counsel who understands the company’s history, contracts, products, priorities, and risk profile.

Services may be provided on an hourly, project-based, or ongoing basis depending on the needs of the company.