About the Firm
Morgan Business Counsel provides senior legal judgment to businesses at moments where legal decisions shape control, value, and what comes next. We advise founders, leadership teams, investors, and organizations navigating growth, capital, governance, and transition—where structure, sequencing, and clarity matter as much as technical precision. Built on more than 25 years of experience advising complex, high-value transactions at leading law firms, the firm brings a business-minded approach grounded in rigor, discretion, and real-world operating context.
We don’t sell templates—we sell judgment, delivered through deliberately scoped, transparently staffed engagements that align legal work with business objectives and long-term outcomes.
Representative Experience
Morgan Business Counsel advises on complex, high-value transactions where legal structure directly shapes control, value, and long-term outcomes.
Selected representative matters include:
Serving as company counsel in the sale of a founder-owned operating business to a strategic acquirer, including negotiation of transaction documentation and post-closing adjustment mechanics.
Advising a U.S. manufacturing company on a substantial strategic investment by a major French industrial conglomerate, including complex negotiations to preserve founder control while accommodating financing and long-term corporate objectives.
Advising a specialty consumer brand in connection with a strategic equity investment by a global consumer products company, including governance, control, and growth-related structuring.
Advising a multi-billion-dollar U.S. financial services and wealth management firm on multiple practice acquisitions, including the structuring of restrictive covenants, earn-out mechanics, and bespoke financing arrangements aligned with long-term strategic objectives.
This experience reflects a practice grounded in senior legal judgment, careful structuring, and decisions that matter at critical inflection points.
Practice Areas
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Acquisitions, sales, and strategic transactions involving operating businesses.
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SAFEs, preferred equity, and growth-stage financings where dilution and control matter.
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Private company corporate and securities transactions tied to growth and ownership.
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Governance, shareholder dynamics, and control at key inflection points.
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Governance and strategic matters for nonprofit and mission-driven organizations.
Who We Work With
Morgan Business Counsel works with growth-oriented, ambitious businesses and organizations making consequential decisions about their next stage of growth. — and whose next decisions will meaningfully influence control, value, and long-term outcomes.
Our clients are preparing for financing, bringing in partners, restructuring ownership, expanding into new markets, or planning for transition or exit. They are at a critical inflection point in the next stage of the business and need experienced legal judgment to help structure the path forward while preserving value, control, and long-term optionality.
We advise businesses, leadership teams, and investors navigating growth, financing, ownership transitions, and strategic change. Our work includes emerging companies with traction as well as more established organizations, including early-stage financings where structure matters early and later-stage decisions where complexity and stakes have increased.
Our work is best suited to clients who value thoughtful counsel, clear structure, and long-term positioning.
How We Work
Morgan Business Counsel serves as a strategic legal partner at key moments in a business’s growth, providing clear legal judgment aligned with long-term objectives and careful decision-making.
Engagements are intentionally scoped, with the understanding that not every matter is the right fit. We work with clients who value thoughtful collaboration, clear decision-making, and long-term positioning. The decision to work together is mutual, grounded in alignment around goals, timing, and approach.
Following major transactions — often key liquidity events — we help clients think through what comes next. Where appropriate, we connect clients with carefully selected advisors across financial planning, tax, estate planning, and related disciplines tied to business growth and transition, ensuring that legal decisions are supported by coordinated, long-term thinking.