We serve as general counsel to corporate and business clients serving all of their transactional, regulatory, and litigation needs including, but not limited to, formation, governance, business and strategic plans, bylaws, finance, issuance of stock, ethics and conflict of interest, compliance (including nonprofit organizations), stock option plans, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, buy-sell agreements, and negotiate equity and non-equity agreements between venture capital and other financing sources. We also negotiate and draft vendor, executive employment agreements, and real estate and technology contracts. Our focus is toward minimizing the risk of liability, with a special emphasis toward reduction of contractual liability. Ms. Sylva is a published author on the start-up of a law practice as a small business; namely, The Road to Independence, published by the American Bar Association (2011).