You do business.
We do legal.
Crabapple Legal advises entrepreneurs, executives, and investors through growth inflection points, M&A events, and the operational complexity that comes with scaling a company.
“We don't just review contracts. We help you see around the next corner.”
Most law firms bill by the hour and think only about the matter in front of them. We think about your business as a whole: your corporate strategy, your exit plan, how you're putting AI to work, how you protect your data, and the experience you give your customers along the way.
That means legal counsel that scales with you, from formation and early contracts through financing rounds, AI and data governance questions, and the eventual M&A event that was the plan all along.
Practice areas
Six areas of focused counsel, built around how growing companies actually operate.
Fractional General Counsel
Senior legal judgment, on call, without a full-time hire.
Learn more → 02Corporate Law & Entity Formation
Entity structuring, governance, and contract drafting and review for the foundational documents your company is built on.
Learn more → 03Mergers & Acquisitions
Turning complex deals into strategic opportunities, from letter of intent through close.
Learn more → 04Artificial Intelligence Guidance
Strategic counsel on IP, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and contracts for AI-driven products.
Learn more → 05Data Use & Protection
Compliance guidance for how you collect, use, and protect data, including GDPR and CCPA.
Learn more → 06Corporate Compliance
Proactive regulatory risk management and compliance programs built before you need them.
Learn more →Attorneys
Co-founded by two attorneys with deep in-house and firm experience.
Jamie Hernan
Began his career at King & Spalding specializing in banking and finance law. Decades of experience as outside general counsel to businesses of all sizes. Focused on corporate law and…
Adam Haigh
Brings expertise in corporate governance, M&A, and strategic legal advisory, with senior in-house roles including General Counsel & Board Secretary at Honey Baked Ham and Edible Arrangements.
Insights
Notes on the legal issues shaping growth-stage companies.
FTC Updates Children’s Privacy Rules – Not Just for Children’s Products Anymore
The FTC’s rewritten children’s privacy rules are now fully in effect, and the agency says it’s ready to enforce them. Here’s what growth-stage companies with any young or mixed-age user base need to know, even if kids were never the target market.
Read more → Artificial IntelligenceThe Fight Over State AI Laws
The federal government has spent the past year trying to knock out state AI regulation through Congress, executive order, and now the courts. Colorado's AI law is the clearest test case yet of what that fight actually produces, and it is not the clean federal win founders might expect.
Read more → ComplianceDOJ’s New Rules on Corporate Self Disclosure
The Department of Justice unified its approach to corporate self-reporting this spring, then quietly made it more attractive for employees to report straight to federal prosecutors this summer. Together, the two changes shift the math on how fast a company needs to act once it learns something has gone wrong.
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