Business Counsel for Building Value. Trial Counsel for Protecting It.
Pacini Law is built for growth-oriented companies, from founder-led and emerging businesses to established private and public companies pursuing their next stage of growth, including companies in technology, life sciences, fintech, healthcare, and other complex or regulated industries. Clients work directly with senior lawyers, from the decisions that build the company through the disputes that put its value at risk.
Build Value. Protect Value. Recover Value.
Business Counsel
Pacini Law helps companies make the legal decisions that shape enterprise value: forming, financing, contracting, hiring, insuring, governing, and managing risk as the business grows. We serve as ongoing outside business counsel or step in for a defined transaction, agreement, claim, or need.
Trial Counsel
When agreements fracture, relationships break down, or enterprise value is threatened, Pacini Law represents companies, founders, executives, and investors through litigation, arbitration, and trial. We set the direction early, align it to the business outcome, and execute with discipline.
Growth-Company Legal Problems Rarely Stay in One Lane.
Transactions, governance, financing, employment, insurance, commercial relationships, and disputes often shape the same business reality. Pacini Law helps clients see the connections early and act with the full company in view.
Business Counsel and Trial Counsel, one firm. The lawyers who help build the company know what it takes to defend it, working as one team with a shared understanding of the business, the documents, and the value at stake.
Strategy Before Process.
The next legal task is not always the next strategic move. Pacini Law helps clients define the objective, identify the leverage that matters, and focus work where it can change the outcome.
A Different Option.
Direct Access to the Lawyers Doing the Work.
Pacini Law pairs the training and capability of a leading firm with the focus of a boutique. We take a deliberately small number of matters, so clients work directly with senior lawyers who know the business, own the strategy, and remain accountable for the work.
Pacini Law brings together lawyers whose practices span growth-company disputes, private equity and emerging-company matters, complex commercial contracts, insurance recovery, governance, and outside general-counsel support. The team has handled state and federal jury and bench trials, appeals, arbitration hearings, and major commercial transactions opposite leading firms and companies.
The Pacini Law Team.
Steven J. Pacini, Founder
Former Latham & Watkins Counsel with deep experience in high-stakes business disputes, arbitration, trial, and business strategy for growth companies, founders, executives, and investors.
Samuel Barrows, Senior Counsel
Five years of practice at Latham & Watkins focused on insurance recovery, indemnity, and complex commercial agreements, bringing dispute-informed drafting and litigation experience to business matters.
Tova Goldring, Co-Counsel | Corporate & General Counsel
Tova advises founders and growth companies—including private-equity-backed companies—on formation, governance, commercial contracts, employment matters, regulatory compliance, commercial leasing, and outside general counsel needs.
Who We Represent
Pacini Law represents growth-oriented businesses, from founder-led and emerging companies to established enterprises pursuing growth, including companies in technology, life sciences, fintech, healthcare, and other regulated or complex industries. We also advise the executives, boards, and investors behind them on financing, governance, contracting, employment, insurance, and disputes, especially where legal decisions affect the value, control, and future of the business.
Technology and software companies
Life sciences and MedTech businesses
FinTech and cybersecurity platforms
Regulated and complex industries
Founders, executives, boards, and general counsel
Private equity, venture capital, and their portfolio companies
Our work frequently involves Delaware-governed entities, investor rights, multi-jurisdictional coordination, and matters where business risk and legal strategy are closely connected.
Flexible Engagements, Built Around the Need.
Clients engage Pacini Law as ongoing outside business counsel, for a defined transaction or dispute, or alongside an existing legal team. Each engagement is structured around the work, the urgency, and the business objective.
Start With a Direct Conversation.
Whether you are building the company, evaluating a business decision, or facing a dispute, the first step is a direct conversation with a lawyer who can quickly understand the objective, the risk, and the path forward.