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Commercial agreements
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer, vendor, licensing, partnership, and other technology agreements. I help you protect the positions that matter without losing momentum.
Fractional commercial & product counsel for B2B SaaS
Practical legal counsel, built into your business.
Your company has outgrown occasional contract review, but you may not need a full-time legal hire. I support growing SaaS companies on commercial contracts, product, privacy, and AI, and build the systems that help the team move faster over time.
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information before the firm confirms an attorney-client relationship.
One legal relationship.
Recurring support for the work that comes with scaling.
Commercial contracts
Product & privacy
AI guidance
Legal operations
Legal OS foundations developed within the engagement
The gap
Too much legal work for occasional outside counsel. Too early for a full-time hire.
As your company grows, legal questions start appearing everywhere. Enterprise customers negotiate harder. Vendors introduce new risks. Product teams need answers about data, AI, and upcoming launches.
Sending each issue to a different lawyer is expensive and fragmented. You need one legal partner who understands the business, knows your priorities, and can help your team make decisions in context.
How I help
One legal partner for the work that comes with scaling.
Senior, business-minded support without assembling a different team for every question.
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Product, privacy, and AI
Practical guidance on product launches, data use, AI features, customer commitments, and third-party integrations—early enough for your team to act on it.
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Day-to-day legal guidance
Ongoing support for the questions between formal matters. Advice reflects your business model, commercial priorities, and actual approach to risk.
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Legal operations
Templates, contract positions, approval rules, escalation paths, and better processes for recurring work. When specialist advice is needed, I help coordinate it.
The Legal OS
Legal advice should become more useful over time.
Most outside counsel answer the question in front of them. The answer lands in an inbox, the matter closes, and someone asks the same question again six months later.
Every fractional counsel relationship includes progressive development of Legal OS foundations within the agreed monthly scope: contract positions, approval rules, team guidance, and significant decisions organized for reuse.
Your team gets clearer guidance, routine questions stop becoming bottlenecks, and the company builds institutional knowledge instead of losing it in Slack and email.
Explore Legal OS →How it works
Legal support that becomes part of how your company operates.
I learn the business
We start with your product, contracts, team, current priorities, and risk posture. I review the documents and recurring issues that matter most.
I become your point person
You have one attorney who knows the company and handles recurring commercial and product work within a clearly agreed scope.
We build the system
As decisions are made, I turn recurring guidance into playbooks, approved positions, and escalation rules your team can reuse.
Who it is for
Built for growing B2B SaaS companies.
The strongest fit is a growing B2B SaaS company with recurring commercial and product legal needs that wants consistent senior counsel without making a full-time legal hire.
You have recurring legal work but no full-time in-house attorney.
Enterprise contracts are becoming more frequent or complex.
Product, privacy, or AI questions are appearing earlier.
Legal knowledge is scattered across executives, counsel, and old emails.
You want practical answers from someone who knows the business.
You value a predictable monthly relationship over a new lawyer for every matter.
About
Experienced counsel. Direct involvement.
I’m Obehi Ota, a technology transactions attorney with experience spanning major law firms, global technology companies, and independent practice. My prior legal experience includes roles at IBM and Wilson Sonsini, advising on commercial agreements, software and cloud services, product matters, data use, privacy, intellectual property, and strategic relationships.
That breadth matters in a fractional role. I understand how legal issues look from outside counsel’s desk and from inside the business, where the answer must account for revenue, product priorities, technical realities, operational constraints, and the company’s approach to risk.
My technical background includes a B.S. in Computer Information Systems and an M.S. in Information Science. Additional training includes certificate programs in AI engineering and prompt engineering. That foundation helps me work directly with product, engineering, security, and data teams, and understand the systems behind the contract language.
Obehi Ota
Technology Transactions Attorney · Licensed in New York
Breadth of experience
- Law firm, in-house, and independent practice
- IBM and Wilson Sonsini
- Commercial, product, privacy, data, and AI
Technical fluency
- B.S., Computer Information Systems
- M.S., Information Science
- Additional AI engineering training
The engagement
Three plans. One ongoing legal relationship.
Start with focused access or choose deeper monthly support as the company’s legal workload grows. Every plan covers commercial, product, privacy, AI, and legal-operations work within a clear monthly hour limit.
- Access: up to 7 hours
- Core: up to 15 hours
- Expanded: up to 25 hours
Access Counsel
$3,500
per month · up to 7 hours
Core Fractional Counsel
$6,500
per month · up to 15 hours
Expanded Fractional Counsel
$10,500
per month · up to 25 hours
All plans begin with an initial three-month term. Custom embedded engagements are available for greater capacity.
Read pricing and scope details →Discuss your legal needs
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information before the firm confirms an attorney-client relationship.
Selected project work
Some legal needs are better handled as a defined project.
When the work is well defined, I also take on selected projects with the scope and fee agreed in advance. Ongoing advice, several active negotiations, or recurring product counseling is usually better suited to a fractional counsel engagement.
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Commercial agreement or negotiation
Drafting, revising, or negotiating a significant customer, vendor, licensing, partnership, or other technology agreement.
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Product, data, or AI assessment
A focused legal review of a product launch, AI feature, data use model, third party integration, or related customer commitments.
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Contracting foundation
Core templates, fallback positions, approval rules, and negotiation guidance for a company building a more consistent commercial process.
Project availability depends on scope and current capacity.
Discuss a defined project →Please do not send confidential or sensitive information before the firm confirms an attorney-client relationship.
Start with a conversation
Let’s determine what kind of legal support you actually need.
Book a 20-minute call
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information before the firm confirms an attorney-client relationship.