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.
Beneficial Ownership Reporting Is Gone for Most Companies
FinCEN has made permanent its decision to scrap beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, closing out one of the more disruptive compliance mandates founders have faced in recent years. Here is what actually changed, what still applies if your company has foreign ownership, and what belongs on your compliance calendar going forward.
Read more → AI & IPThe US Copyright Office’s AI Guidance Explained
The US Copyright Office has published a running series of reports on AI and copyright since 2023. Here is what each one actually says, and where to find it.
Read more → AI & IPWho Owns What Your AI Product Generates?
Ownership of AI-generated work product is rarely as simple as it seems. Here is where the law stands, and the contract questions worth asking now.
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