Clementine Wolcott
Founding partner
Forms companies and acts as their general counsel, by the month.
Clementine founded the firm after years of corporate work at larger firms, where she saw founders pay for the same advice twice. She now forms companies for owners who intend to run them for a long time, and serves as outside general counsel to a handful of them. Clients describe her drafts as short. She takes that as the compliment it is.
Matters
- Company formation
- Operating agreements
- Founder equity and vesting
- Outside general counsel
Clementine's admissions, courts and schooling
Bar admissions
Connecticut
2009
New York
2010
Courts
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Education
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law
B.A., Wesleyan University
Languages
English
French
Memberships
Connecticut Bar Association, Business Law Section
How Clementine works
The first draft of an operating agreement is the cheapest place to settle a disagreement between founders, so I spend most of a formation on the conversation before it. I ask each owner the same questions separately: what they are putting in, what they expect back and what would make them want out.
As general counsel I would rather hear about a contract before it is signed than after. The standing call exists so that nobody has to decide whether something is worth a lawyer's time.