Business & advisory
Engagements that combine legal execution with business judgment: how the entity is built, how equity is issued, what the numbers have to prove, and what a regulator or an investor will ask for. That includes newly regulated markets: cannabis and hemp, telehealth and MSO structures, peptides, physician-owned models, psychedelics, kratom, hemp-derived beverages and digital assets. A large and growing share of it is healthcare — peptide and longevity practices, clinics and med spas, physician-owned groups, and the capital raised behind them.
Ten engagements, scoped and priced before they start.
Most of this work is cheapest at the point it is least urgent. A structure reviewed before a partner conversation, a cap table reconciled before diligence, a model built before the raise is sized — each is straightforward early and expensive under a deadline.
Healthcare is where the work is growing fastest. Peptide and longevity practices, clinics and med spas, telehealth platforms and the management services structures behind them raise the same four questions in a different order every time: who may own the clinical entity, who may direct clinical decisions, what the pharmacy relationship may cover, and what the advertising may say. The capital raise usually follows, and it is easier when the structure already answers those questions.
Hourly billing is reserved for litigation and genuinely open-ended matters. Everything below is quoted up front.
Business consulting
Pro formas for a raise, investor-ready materials, operations support and help scaling, from an attorney who built companies before he advised them.
Read more 02Legal structuring
Entity selection, equity and vesting, operating agreements, and governance built to survive an outside investor.
Read more 03Capital raise support
Cap table reconciliation, corporate records, a diligence-grade data room, and the materials a first round is judged on.
Read more 04Pro formas & modeling
Three-statement models, scenario sets, unit economics, and the written case connecting the numbers to the strategy.
Read more 05Peptides, telehealth & MSO
Compounding under sections 503A and 503B, corporate practice of medicine, MSO structuring, friendly-PC agreements and multi-state licensure.
Read more 06Clinics, med spas & longevity
Who may own the clinic, medical direction, supervision and delegation of procedures, membership terms and advertising review.
Read more 07Cannabis & hemp
Licensing, ownership transfers structured to avoid triggering review, and compliance in a market that keeps moving.
Read more 08Emerging markets
Licensing, ownership and control limits, transfer approval and advertising review in markets whose rules are still being written.
Read more 09Board & advisory positioning
Board composition, director and advisor agreements, information rights, and a reporting cadence you can sustain.
Read more 10Growth & operating strategy
Segment prioritization, pricing, channel, operating cadence, and a twelve-month plan with named owners.
Read moreHow an engagement runs
Four stages, whichever engagement you start with.
Assessment
A structured look at the entity, the contracts and the numbers. You are told what is load-bearing and what is noise.
Direction
One recommendation, with the alternatives documented and set aside. Scope and fee agreed in writing before work starts.
Execution
Filings, drafting and negotiation. Where outside help is warranted, Mr. Sheehan names who and why.
Close-out
Documents, corporate record, and a plain summary of where things stand and what to watch next.
Litigating rather than building?
The firm also runs a full-service legal practice: business and contract disputes, personal injury, criminal defense, family law and protective orders. A founder with a growing company usually also has one of those, and splitting them across firms is how details get lost between them.