About Us
High-caliber and pragmatic legal counsel
Our mission is to contribute to the success of technology and consumer entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies and investors by providing both legal and strategic counsel. Kastner Gravelle provides our clients a level of expertise and service that has traditionally been available only from top tier national law firms, and our low-overhead platform enables us to do so with a high degree of efficiency. We develop close partnerships with our clients throughout all stages of their growth to help them prepare for and navigate their critical transactions.
Our Work
We advise on corporate and securities matters, mergers & acquisitions, technology and commercial contracts, employment law, tax, and employee compensation.
Corporate & Securities
We advise on all manner of corporate transactions, including venture, private equity, convertible debt, SAFE, secondary, and venture debt financing transactions. We also assist with day-to-day business matters, such as entity formation, corporate governance, commercial, and equity compensation matters. Our clients include emerging growth technology companies and consumer brands, as well as numerous venture and private equity investors.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our Mergers & Acquisitions practice group represents a broad range of clients, including venture, private equity-backed and closely-held targets and acquirers, as well as public company, private equity fund and private equity-backed serial acquirers, in a wide range of complex transactions, including mergers, divestitures, reorganizations, stock sales, spinoffs, rollover transactions and asset sales.
Technology & Commercial Contracts
We advise on technology and commercial matters of all kinds, including SaaS, inbound and outbound licensing, blockchain technologies, software development and maintenance, open source software compliance, contract manufacturing and packaging, logistics and distributor arrangements, standard contract terms and conditions, and strategic commercial partnerships.
Fintech
We represent companies and investors operating at the nexus of technology and financial services, including innovators in payments, consumer credit, blockchain, web3 and DeFi, and companies adding such functionality to their existing businesses. Our work with fintech clients includes corporate, strategic and technology transactions, product development, and business law aspects of financial and other regulatory issues.
Employment Counseling
We assist emerging growth and established companies on a broad range of employment matters, including employment contracts, employee and contractor classification, wage and hour matters, employment policies, terminations, employee disputes, investigations, and EEOC claims.
Tax & Equity Compensation
We help corporations, LLCs, and partnerships navigate the tax consequences that affect everything they do, from the issuance of founder stock, stock option grants, and secondary sales, to complex restructurings, conversions and exits. We also assist with the implementation of equity and cash compensation incentive programs.
Our Clients and Industries
We serve emerging growth and established companies, as well as venture and private equity investors, primarily in the software and technology, consumer packaged goods, fashion and apparel, and financial services industries. Our clients range from pre-seed stage, venture and private equity-backed private companies, to $1 billion + revenue public companies.
Technology
Kastner Gravelle represents a broad spectrum of technology companies in the e-commerce, SaaS and software, semiconductor, fintech, proptech, insuretech, logistics, gaming, web3, professional services, mobile, social, marketplace, energy, medical device, and life sciences industries. We assist technology companies on matters ranging from entity formation; seed, venture and growth equity financings, including related secondary transactions; technology and commercial transactions, including licensing; employment matters; venture debt transactions; mergers & acquisitions; and other strategic transactions. We also assist our clients with their day-to-day needs such as corporate governance, sales and commercial contracts, tax, and executive compensation issues.
Consumer Goods and Fashion Brands
We represent a large number of consumer-packaged goods, food and beverage, spirits, cosmetics and fashion/apparel brands, as well as investors and funds who focus on the consumer space. Kastner Gravelle helps consumer companies as they form and finance their businesses, put in place key supplier, co-packing, distribution and commercial partner agreements, protect their intellectual property and as they grow and divest through mergers and acquisitions.
Other Industries
We also augment the in-house legal departments of public and large private corporate clients across industries. We regularly assist these clients with technology procurement, strategic partnering and sales support transactions, as well as strategic investments and mergers and acquisitions.