Clementine Wolcott
Founding partner
Forms companies and serves as outside general counsel to the owners who run them.
Business counsel in Greenwich
“Name the fee. Then do the work.”
We opened this firm on one rule: before any work begins, you have the fee in writing, and the name of the lawyer who will do it.
The rule asks something of us. We have to understand a matter well enough to price it, so the first conversation is a long one. We say what the fee covers, and what it leaves out.
It asks something of you too: tell us early when the deal changes. Then we can tell you, just as early, whether the fee does.
Clementine Wolcott
Founding partner
The firm
Counsel for the people who own the company
Our clients are founders, families who own a business together, and the partners of small funds and firms along the Post Road. They want one lawyer who knows the company, not a new associate on every call.
We take four kinds of work, and we price each of them before it starts:
- Forming the company
- Selling or buying a company
- Partner and contract disputes
- Outside general counsel
Most meetings happen by video, at an hour that suits you. Signings, and the conversations that are better had across a table, happen at our office on Greenwich Avenue.
The lawyers
Every engagement letter carries one of three names
The lawyer who prices your matter is the lawyer who does it. Read each of them before you write.
Ambrose Penhallow
Partner
Sells and buys privately held companies, from the letter of intent to the closing.
Cyprian Fairweather
Counsel
Settles disputes between partners, and between companies and the people they contract with.