Schwartz Associates

LEGAL ADVICE FOR FOUNDERS,
EXECUTIVES, AND INVESTORS.

Schwartz & Associates, PC is a law firm for founders, executives, and investors who operate at speed,  providing legal counsel on complex commercial matters, transactions, and litigation shaped by technology and capital markets. We combine legal judgment with decades of operating, transactional, and capital markets experience to identify risk early and address it before value is lost.

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Built for decisions that matter.

Most legal advice is technically correct and arrives after key decisions have already been made. We focus on moments where timing, structure, and judgment  determine outcomes.

Where Legal Judgment Meets Business Reality

Three core pillars that guide complex decisions, protect value, and withstand scrutiny  from boards, investors, and regulators.

Legal Judgment

Clear, senior-level legal analysis applied to complex decisions where mistakes are expensive and  remediation is rarely clean.

Operating Experience

Advice shaped by experience inside  operating companies. We understand incentives, tradeoffs, and the realities executives face when theory meets execution.

Capital Markets Perspective

Every decision affects value. We structure transactions and governance with an understanding of how outcomes are priced, financed, and scrutinized in public and private markets.

Where value is lost

Most companies do not lose value in dramatic moments. They lose it quietly, over time. 

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In poorly structured deals.

Where terms solve the immediate transaction but fail to protect value over time, leaving exposure as conditions change.

Misaligned incentives

Where compensation, control, or decision rights drive short-term wins while quietly  eroding alignment and long-term  value.

Governance gaps under pressure

Where oversight, authority, or escalation breaks down precisely when decisions carry the greatest consequences.

Risks identified too late

Where legal, regulatory, or financial risks surface only after they appear in earnings calls, litigation, or regulatory scrutiny.

How we help?

Focused legal advice  delivered at the areas where structure,
governance, and judgment most directly affect long-term value.

01.

Venture and growth companies

Advising founders and leadership teams through formation, scaling decisions, financings, and evolving governance  from early growth through liquidity events.

02.

Mergers and strategic transactions

Structuring and negotiating acquisitions, divestitures, and  strategic partnerships with disciplined focus on  risk allocation and value preservation.

03.

Executive and board advisory

Guiding executives and boards on fiduciary duties,
judgment calls, and  high-stakes decisions made
under pressure.

04.

Corporate governance and risk

Designing governance frameworks and risk oversight
that hold up under  sustained investor and regulatory scrutiny.

05.

Class and Mass Tort Litigation

We represent plaintiffs and stakeholders in complex class and mass tort matters involving technology platforms, data practices, labor systems, and systemic misconduct. Matters are evaluated using a disciplined legal and economic framework informed by real-world operating experience and litigation risk.

If timing matters, talk to us early.

Early engagement creates more options, clearer tradeoffs, and better outcomes when decisions carry lasting consequences.

Insights

Focused legal advice across the areas where structure, governance, and judgment most directly affect long-term value.