San Francisco · Est. 2016 · Business & Immigration
A nine-lawyer firm doing two things deliberately well: the legal architecture of growing companies, and the immigration work that lets their best people stay. Most matters on a flat fee, every matter with a partner on it.
For founders, funds & operators
Delaware incorporations done right the first time: charters, founder agreements, IP assignment, option plans, and the board hygiene investors expect.
SAFEs through Series B, on either side of the table. We keep the redlines short and tell you which points are actually worth the fight.
Customer agreements, licensing, DPAs, and the vendor paper that quietly runs your company — drafted to be signed, not admired.
Partnership breakups, contract claims, and demand letters that end things early. We litigate when it pays and say so when it won't.
For the people your company runs on
H-1B, O-1, L-1, TN and E-2 — petitions built on evidence, filed early, with a plan B drafted before anyone needs it.
PERM, EB-1 and EB-2/NIW strategies sequenced around real careers and real priority dates, not boilerplate.
O-1A and NIW pathways for founders, International Entrepreneur Parole, and the cap-exempt structures nobody tells you about.
I-9 programs, H-1B public access files, site-visit readiness, and calm, fast counsel when a government envelope arrives.
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The first meeting is diagnosis, not a pitch. Half the matters that walk in are two matters wearing a coat — we untangle them before quoting anything.
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Most work is flat-fee, scoped in a one-page letter you can read without us. If something must be hourly, you get a ceiling, and we keep to it.
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A named partner, a shared timeline, and updates in plain English at every filing. You should never have to email us to ask what's happening.
“We built the firm we wished existed when we were in-house: small enough to care, senior enough to matter.”
Teresa Ocampo & Daniel Alder, founding partners
Details altered to protect confidences; outcomes as they happened. Past results do not guarantee future ones — any lawyer who implies otherwise is selling something.
Scoped flat, staffed with one partner and one associate. We cut the investor's 62-page ancillary stack to what mattered, held the option pool math, and the founders kept a board seat they'd been told to concede.
$18M raisedNo PhD, no press — just shipped work. We built the record from commits, citations, and revenue, briefed the criteria honestly, and the petition was approved without a request for evidence.
Approved · no RFEA deadlocked cap table and a product launch six weeks out. Two mediated sessions, a clean repurchase, mutual releases — and the launch shipped on time with both names still on the About page.
Settled pre-filingSeventy-two hours of triage, a defensible correction protocol, and a negotiated outcome with no debarment and a fine cut to a fraction of the initial exposure. The client now runs the program we built, in-house.
Exposure cut ~90%Fictional matters for a fictional firm — but this is the shape of the work.
Founding Partner · Immigration
Former in-house immigration counsel at a 3,000-person tech company; has filed more O-1s than she can ethically brag about. Teaches the firm's rule: file early, brief honestly, keep a plan B drafted.
Founding Partner · Corporate
Ten years at a large firm doing venture deals, two as a startup GC, and one strong opinion: most term sheets have three points worth fighting over, and he will tell you which three.
Counsel · Disputes
A commercial litigator who measures success in disputes that never see a courtroom. Writes the firm's demand letters; opposing counsel have described them as “unfortunately persuasive.”
Answer three questions and get a working case brief before anyone picks up a phone. This is a scripted demonstration of the intake agent Bagwis builds into client sites — it is not a live assistant, it is not legal advice, and it collects nothing.
Forty-five minutes with a partner — not an associate reading your email back to you. You leave with a view on the merits, a route, and a number. If we're not the right firm, we'll say so and point you to someone who is.
Consults $0 for immigration matters · $350 for business matters, credited against any engagement.
One Sansome Street, Suite 2400, San Francisco · (415) 555-0162