Legal expertise and business strategy are more connected than most businesses treat them. The decisions that shape a company’s direction — entering a new market, forming a strategic partnership, restructuring ownership, planning for growth or exit — have legal dimensions that, when ignored, create risk. When integrated thoughtfully, legal and strategic thinking produce better outcomes.
Scott Resnick Law offers corporate strategy advising that combines senior legal judgment with genuine business perspective. The goal is to help leadership teams think more clearly about consequential decisions — understanding the legal implications, evaluating the risk, and structuring the approach in a way that protects the business and advances its objectives.
What Corporate Strategy Advising Covers
Strategic Decision Support
When your leadership team is facing a significant decision — a new market entry, a major partnership, a restructuring, an acquisition — Scott provides the legal and strategic analysis that helps you evaluate the options clearly. That means understanding not just what’s legally permissible, but what the risks are, how different structures compare, and what the decision looks like from a legal standpoint six months or two years down the road.
Market and Competitive Analysis — Legal Lens
Expanding into a new market or competitive segment involves legal considerations that often get overlooked until they create problems: regulatory requirements, licensing obligations, employment law differences across jurisdictions, IP exposure, and contractual constraints from existing agreements. Scott helps leadership teams analyze market and competitive moves with the legal dimensions built into the analysis from the start.
Governance and Ownership Structure
As businesses grow and evolve, the governance and ownership structures that made sense at an earlier stage often need to be revisited. Scott advises on restructuring ownership arrangements, redefining decision-making authority, bringing in new investors or partners, and building governance frameworks that support the company’s next stage of growth without creating internal conflict.
Risk Identification and Prioritization
One of the most valuable things a senior legal advisor can do is help leadership understand which risks actually matter and which don’t. Not every legal issue warrants the same level of attention, and businesses that treat all risk as equivalent tend to either over-invest in low-risk concerns or under-address genuinely significant exposure. Scott helps prioritize legal risk in a way that’s calibrated to your business’s actual situation and goals.
Exit and Succession Planning
Planning for an eventual exit — whether through a sale, a transfer to the next generation, or a buyout of partners — is most effective when it starts well before the exit itself. Scott advises business owners on the legal and structural groundwork that maximizes exit value and minimizes complexity when the time comes. That includes governance documentation, ownership structure, contract terms, and the organizational clarity that acquirers and investors look for in due diligence.
Operational Legal Strategy
Beyond specific transactions and decisions, Scott helps businesses build the operational legal infrastructure that supports sustainable growth: contract standards, vendor management practices, compliance frameworks, and the internal processes that keep legal risk from accumulating quietly over time.
The Intersection of Legal and Strategic
Most attorneys advise on legal questions. Most business advisors advise on strategic questions. Scott’s practice is built at the intersection — bringing legal expertise and business judgment to bear on the same decisions simultaneously.
That combination is the product of a specific background: senior in-house legal leadership, complex commercial transactions, litigation experience, an MBA alongside a JD, and more than a decade advising leadership teams on high-stakes business decisions. The perspective it produces is one that takes business objectives seriously as the starting point, rather than treating legal compliance as the only goal.
For small and mid-sized businesses in Arizona and California, that integrated perspective — legal and strategic, practical and forward-looking — is what Scott Resnick Law brings to every engagement.