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Founder-Led Business Counsel

Protecting What
Matters Most

Outside general counsel to founders, legacy brands, hospitality groups, beauty and wellness companies, and public figures — helping them protect their brands, structure deals, and navigate growth.

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We help our clients protect their income and scale their businesses so they can focus on building wealth, fear free.

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Outside General Counsel

Ongoing legal counsel for founders, operators, legacy brands, hospitality groups, beauty and wellness companies, and public figures navigating the legal decisions that come with growth.

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Founder-Led Strategy

Strategic guidance from a boutique firm built around business judgment, brand protection, deal structure, risk management, and long-term client relationships.

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Team-Supported Execution

Attorney-led legal work supported by organized matter management, clear communication, and practical follow-through from intake through execution.

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Business & Corporate Law — Shah Grossi attorneys in Century City, Los Angeles

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Strategic Counsel for
Growth Decisions

Whether launching a new concept, protecting a brand, negotiating a lease, structuring a partnership, raising capital, expanding into new markets, or resolving a business dispute, Shah Grossi Law & Counsel helps clients make legal decisions with clarity, strategy, and long-term perspective.

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Core Offering

Outside General Counsel

Ongoing strategic legal counsel for founders, operators, hospitality groups, beauty and wellness brands, legacy companies, and public figures navigating contracts, brand protection, business structure, growth, risk, and opportunity.

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  • Risk Management
  • Business Growth
  • Long-Term Partnership
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Business Formation

Start right. Structure smart. Build to last.

How you form your business determines how it operates, how it’s taxed, how it’s financed, and how it ends. The decisions you make at formation shape everything that follows.

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Brand Protection

Protect your most valuable asset.

In today’s digital marketplace, brand identity is built quickly and stolen quickly. A trademark registration that should have been filed years ago, a licensing agreement that was never reviewed — these are preventable problems.

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Capital Raising

Raise capital correctly. Every dollar has a legal dimension.

Capital raising is a legally regulated activity. How you ask for money, from whom, and on what terms is governed by federal and state securities laws that carry serious consequences for violations.

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Expansion & Growth

Legal infrastructure for businesses that are scaling.

Growth creates legal complexity at every stage. New locations, new hires, new markets, new products, new investors — each carries its own legal requirements that compound if left unaddressed.

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Risk & Compliance

Identify risk before it becomes liability.

The most expensive legal problems are the ones that were preventable. Employment violations, licensing lapses, IP infringement, securities non-compliance — we find them before they find you.

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Dispute & Recovery

When things go wrong — decisive counsel to make them right.

Business disputes consume time, resources, and energy that should be going into your business. We move quickly, think strategically, and work to resolve matters in ways that protect your future.

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Attorney-Led. Team-Supported.

Shah Grossi Law & Counsel is a founder-led boutique firm supported by experienced legal, operational, and matter-management professionals. Clients receive strategic attorney oversight, organized matter support, and clear communication throughout each engagement.

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Sapana Grossi

Founder and Managing Partner

Nationally recognized business attorney. Practice spans corporate governance, IP, real estate, M&A, labor & employment, and litigation in federal courts and before the FTC, IRS, and CABC.

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They are indispensable to our business and with Shah Grossi by our side, nothing is impossible.

— MAG Hospitality Group

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Franchise expansion strategy and FDD compliance — Shah Grossi franchise counsel in Century City, Los Angeles

Franchise Law

March 2026

What Every Franchisor Needs to Know Before Expanding in 2026

From FDD disclosure requirements to multi-unit development agreements, the regulatory landscape has grown more complex and consequential.

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Brand protection and trademark strategy in the age of generative AI — Shah Grossi IP attorneys in Century City, Los Angeles

Intellectual Property

February 2026

Protecting Your Brand When AI Can Replicate It Overnight

Generative AI has fundamentally changed trademark and brand protection. We break down the strategies businesses should implement today.

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Commercial lease negotiation and tenant representation — Shah Grossi commercial real estate attorneys in Los Angeles

Commercial Real Estate

January 2026

The Landlord's Market Has Shifted — How to Negotiate Your Lease

Tenants who understand their leverage and come to the table with skilled legal counsel are still securing favorable terms in most markets.

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Office Address

1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 200 Century City, CA 90067

Office Phone

213.927.6980

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310.388.6491

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