Outside General Counsel

Whether you are a privately-owned portfolio company with limited or no internal legal support but not ready to hire full-time counsel, or a public or private company with overwhelmed legal resources struggling to keep up with demands, Rabin & Company can support your legal needs. Having served as a family office portfolio company's General Counsel and also as Chief Commercial Officer in a Fortune 150 NYSE company, David Rabin has a deep understanding of the legal guidance a business requires to balance profitability and growth with appropriate risk management, and how to address the needs of multiple stakeholders within a matrixed business by providing pragmatic solutions.

Rabin & Company can provide outsourced General Counsel services on a generalist basis and also can directly support specific areas including:

• Commercial contracting – both buy-side and sell-side, including template development

• Legal and commercial process management

• Outside counsel oversight and legal budget compliance 

• Intellectual property matters, including SaaS and license agreements, and trademarks

• Labor and employment issues, including executive compensation

• Corporate governance

• Real estate matters

• Dispute and litigation management

• M&A, partnerships and joint ventures

• Due diligence

• Risk management

• Debt and equity financing

• Supply chain and service agreements

• Franchise agreements

• Compliance and privacy issues

As outside general counsel, Rabin & Company can, on a monthly retainer basis, act as a business-focused strategic advisor and serve as the primary point of contact for a company's leadership team on all legal and risk management issues, and oversee legal operations--including supervising and evaluating the value provided by all supporting law firms.

We offer Big Law quality, talent and experience, but at competitive rates and are receptive to alternative and flexible fee structures, including monthly retainers, project-based pricing, and hourly rates, to work within your budget using a value-added fractional service delivery model.

We will leverage additional attorneys with general counsel or specialist experience, as needed, and have established strategic alliances with reasonably priced outside law firms, to meet clients' needs either on a project or programmatic basis.