M&A and corporate counsel for business owners, acquisitive companies, and lean investment teams. Hands-on support for your transactions, commercial contracts, and the corporate work in between.
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. Business owners should have access to experienced transaction counsel who understands the stakes, stays close to the work, and provides advice suited to the business.
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.
Current Counsel works with owners buying or selling businesses, companies making repeat acquisitions, and lean investment teams pursuing private-company transactions. The practice also supports established businesses with commercial contracts, governance, and ongoing corporate matters.
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.
Drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements, with ongoing corporate advice as your business evolves. Work with counsel who understands the business beyond a single transaction.
Entity formation and restructuring, operating and shareholder agreements, governance, and corporate housekeeping. Practical support for ownership, decision-making, and the corporate work surrounding a transaction.
Pre-seed through growth rounds. Term sheet negotiation, SAFE and convertible note structuring, equity financing documentation, and cap table management.
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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 proprietary matter-context infrastructure is built around how deals move. AI helps organize and retrieve information. Austin remains responsible for legal advice and professional judgment. Client information is handled subject to the firm's confidentiality obligations.
Deal terms, correspondence, documents, and status information are brought together from connected systems to support matter review and preparation.
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.
We discuss scope, fees, and billing before work begins. Depending on the matter, that may mean hourly billing, a fixed fee, a hybrid fee, or an ongoing monthly arrangement. The engagement terms explain what is included and how changes are handled.
For work whose scope or timing is difficult to predict. Rates and billing terms are agreed at the outset, with itemized invoices for work performed.
For a defined project or deliverable. We agree on the scope, fee, and treatment of additional work before getting started.
For transactions with a defined core of work and a less predictable negotiation process. Fixed fees cover agreed deliverables; negotiation and other variable work are billed hourly. We identify which work falls into each category and discuss the expected budget before getting started.
For businesses with recurring corporate and contract needs. A defined scope of ongoing support, with separate treatment for major transactions or work outside the arrangement.
Free 30-minute consultation. No obligation.
“Your conduit from where you are to where your business is going.”
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