M&A, venture capital, and corporate law for buyers, founders, and lower middle market companies — built from scratch on infrastructure designed for the next generation of legal practice.
Austin Young is the founder and managing attorney of Current Counsel. He spent years practicing corporate and M&A law at a leading AmLaw 200 firm, helping companies raise capital, negotiate exits, and navigate complex transactions. That experience provided elite technical training and a clear conviction that lower middle market transactions stand to benefit from a law firm designed for their market. A small business owner and first-time seller should not have to choose between the family attorney who “does some M&A” and a large law firm who treats their deal like a side project.
As a natural counselor at heart, Austin’s desire is to walk alongside business owners and operators at every stage — offering practical, grounded legal guidance that empowers companies to start, grow, transact, and thrive with clarity and confidence.
This practice serves buyers making a single acquisition, search fund operators closing on a platform and subsequent add-ons, founders raising their first round, and business owners preparing for a sale.
End-to-end counsel across the deal lifecycle, structured around how transactions actually move.
End-to-end transaction support from LOI through closing. SBA-financed acquisitions, search fund platforms, add-on deals, and traditional middle market sales. Diligence coordination, purchase agreement negotiation, and post-closing support.
Pre-seed through growth rounds. Term sheet negotiation, SAFE and convertible note structuring, equity financing documentation, and cap table management.
Entity structuring, restructuring, operating agreements, founder agreements, board governance, and corporate housekeeping.
Drafting, review, and negotiation of the agreements that power your business. Ongoing contract support, employment matters, and strategic counsel available through flexible engagement models including monthly retainers.
Structured legal products for specific needs.
A structured assessment of your company’s legal foundations. Readiness score, gap analysis, and a prioritized roadmap — before investors or growth expose what’s missing.
Learn more →Evaluate legal readiness before going to market. Framed through a buyer’s lens to surface issues that delay or kill deals, so you can fix them on your timeline.
Learn more →Professional transaction facilitation for small deals that deserve real legal structure but can’t absorb traditional M&A fees. Flat fee.
Learn more →Most legal practices have “adopted” some form of AI. This practice is purposefully built to thrive in an AI-driven world — not by passing legal judgment to software, but by designing the firm’s operating system to capture the efficiencies of AI while preserving what makes human counsel essential.
Our context infrastructure is proprietary — designed around how deals actually move, not how a software company thinks they should. AI surfaces patterns and assembles information. The attorney makes every judgment call. Client data is held under full attorney-client confidentiality.
Deal terms, correspondence, documents, counterparty history, statuses are pulled together from every system in real time. One query can assemble the full picture of any active matter in minutes. This is how a one-lawyer structure becomes a design feature.
Every engagement deepens the practice. Deal structures, negotiation patterns, risk allocations, and lessons from prior closings inform how each new matter is run — without crossing the lines of attorney-client confidentiality.
For matters where scope is uncertain or evolving. Transparent rates, detailed invoicing, no surprises.
Fixed pricing for defined-scope projects — contract review, drafting, and similar single-matter work. Scope and price agreed before work begins.
A single fee, quoted at LOI — calibrated to deal size, structure, posture, and complexity.
Ongoing coverage for companies that need consistent counsel on call. Scales with the relationship.
M&A deals are unpredictable by nature. That is why pure flat fee pricing rarely works in M&A — the outcome and timing of a deal are rarely what everyone expects when the LOI is signed. What happens when the deal dies early during diligence or drags on for eight months? This headache is what pushes firms back to hourly billing.
Our structured fee model provides cost certainty, shared risk, and incentive alignment. We agree on a target number upfront. The guardrails below set out where risk sits on each side when a matter runs long or ends early. The model is deliberately outcome-neutral, so we can represent clients’ interests without a structural pull toward closing, walking, or running up time.
Billing reverts to hourly for time actually spent. No attorney windfall for a deal that didn’t close.
The firm absorbs the first 25% of overage. Hourly billing only resumes once actual hours exceed 125% of estimated.
Free 30-minute consultation. No obligation.
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