Corporate & commercial law
Counsel for the decisions that shape a company.
Merchant & Vale advises founders, boards and investors through financings, acquisitions, governance and the contracts that carry a business forward.
Practice areas
Where we do our best work
A focused corporate practice, deep in the areas that decide how companies raise money, combine and grow.
Financings & fundraising
Priced equity rounds, convertible instruments and venture debt — term sheets through to closing, on the founder’s side or the fund’s.
Mergers & acquisitions
Buy-side and sell-side transactions: diligence, deal structuring, negotiation and the mechanics of getting to a clean signing and close.
Corporate governance
Board and shareholder matters, equity plans, cap-table hygiene and the day-to-day counsel that keeps a growing company well-ordered.
Commercial contracts
Customer, supplier and partnership agreements drafted and negotiated to move revenue forward without carrying avoidable risk.
Our approach
A smaller firm, by design
We built Merchant & Vale to give growth-stage companies the judgement of a senior lawyer without the weight of a large firm.
Commercial first
Advice framed around the decision in front of you, not a recitation of every risk. We tell you what matters and what we’d do.
Partner-led
The person you meet is the person doing the work. Matters are staffed lean and led by someone accountable for the outcome.
Responsive
Deals move on their own clock. We answer quickly and keep things moving, because momentum is often the deal’s best protection.
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