Most Admired Companies to Watch 2026
As a stakeholder of an emerging company, understanding the legal landscape as a founder, investor, or key member of your firm can often seem like a tedious prospect. Setting up your venture as an entrepreneur requires a thorough understanding of entity structuring and formation, taxation, capital raising and security law, intellectual property (IP) matters, e-commerce and information technology (IT) agreements, along with privacy and data protection laws, among others.
More often than not, an individual or even a group of persons associated with a company does not possess the requisite legal background to analyze and process these nuances. Also, fundraising is another necessary prerequisite for running a company successfully, which is best approached with a law firm’s team of experts. Furthermore, other crucial aspects of running a business, such as business sales and acquisitions, corporate law, information technology (IT) transactions, and employment law, also require personalized guidance from experienced professionals.
Matthew Glick Legal Services (MGLS) is one such law firm that provides stakeholders with comprehensive solutions to comprehend their legal challenges and realize the full potential of their enterprise. Its founder, Matthew Glick, is a New York Business Lawyer and a businessperson. He is an emerging companies’ attorney as well as an outside general counsel. Matthew is also keenly interested in the intersection of technology and the law, having attended several industry-related events in New York’s vibrant tech scene to stay abreast with the newest technologies, companies, and developments in the industry. MGLS prides itself in delivering a client-centric experience by emphasizing the following:
Being responsive to the individual needs of each client
Understanding the priorities of clients unassumingly
Emphasizing the brevity of communications
Empowering clients to make the best decisions by educating them
Providing honest feedback on every course of action
Supporting clients throughout the process, from financing to exit
Incredible Lawyering for the Startup World Through Effective Solutions
MGLS’ charter of services spans across nine distinct categories, each consisting of a proficient team of experts:
Startup Law: With a passion to assist entrepreneurs in their journey, the firm’s network of advisors and specialists specializes in helping startups deal with finance and operational challenges. Some of the services offered include business entity formation; founder, shareholder, subscription, IP contribution and assignment, employment contracts and independent contractor agreements; capitalization strategy and cap table management, equity incentive plans, and legal compliance in employment practices.
Fundraising: MGLS offers a dependable team of attorneys to advise startups that have just formed their entity, built a business plan, expanded their employee base, or are at an advanced stage of operations to raise money for their business operations. Fundraising is an essential skill involving identifying the right investors and getting a term sheet through due diligence. All of which is made simpler with MGLS’ guidance.
Business Sales and Acquisitions: MGLS’ team has vast experience in handling wide-ranging business acquisition and sales matters, including stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and joint ventures, among others. It leverages these to offer services such as due diligence, negotiation, and drafting of transaction documents, regulatory compliance, along with transaction closing and post-closing assistance to clients.
Corporate Law: MGLS’ team of corporate lawyers offers thoughtful intervention in areas like Master Services Agreements (MSAs) and Scopes of Work (SOWs) on both the client and vendor sides, licensing agreements, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, employment and separation agreements, nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and much more.
IT Transactions and Law: MGLS offers assistance in drafting and negotiating agreements like software and other IT licensing, IT consulting, outsourcing, service-level, and cloud computing, apart from a range of other services.
Intellectual Property: As described until now, MGLS offers an exhaustive list of services that are used to safeguard clients’ IP rights as well, including IP registrations and guidance.
Privacy and Data Protection: MGLS helps companies in framing their privacy policies, data processing agreements, and addenda, streamlining data inventory and mapping, among other services that enable compliance with complex data protection laws like GDPR and CCPA.
Apart from these, MGLS also offers extensive Employment Law and Outside General Counsel services. A plethora of such service offerings ranks it among the “Most Admired Companies to Watch 2026”.
Meticulous Vision and Execution: Engineering the Growth Story
A “straightforward and down-to-earth” approach drives MGLS’ company culture. With passionate advocacy and empathy at the heart of operations, it is on a mission to enable high-growth enterprises and founders to reach greater heights by overcoming legal hurdles. MGLS’ success has been possible owing to the efforts of its team of dedicated attorneys that personify the firm’s values of “transparency” and “commitment to doing what is right, always”.
Client testimonials hold the firm’s tenacity in solving complex legal issues with responsiveness and ease in high regard. Attorneys observe the tangible impact of their work in a demanding environment in terms of the company’s growth trajectory and are mentored to become important contributors to their clients’ long-term success.
New York’s Premier Business Lawyers Protecting Startups
Matthew Glick Legal Services serves as the perfect legal partner for startups and emerging enterprises to grow their brand and find their voice in highly competitive environments. The firm provides a wide range of services by virtue of operating at the intersection of law and technology. Some of these include entity formation, protecting intellectual property, and helping companies navigate complex M&A and fundraising. Founder Glick’s expert guidance provides direction to these endeavors.
MGLS assists its target audience of founders and investors in breaking the veneer of complexity surrounding legal procedures. It empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions that provide them the best chance to ensure their venture’s health from infancy to exit. This client-centric approach, involving providing the required information in an honest and concise manner, allows entrepreneurs to convert legal adversities into enablers of innovation and scaling of operations.
Moreover, it prioritizes a positive work culture where attorneys are mentored to bring the best out of themselves. Their seminal contributors are valued as the causal agent behind the firm’s long-term success. This provides employees with a sense of purpose and motivates them to espouse the firm’s commitment to “doing what is right” in each and every action through an empathetic and human approach towards excellence.
Meet the Founder
Matthew Glick is the founder and Managing Partner of Matthew Glick Legal Services. He holds a B.A. in Communications from Concordia University and a J.D. from the University Of Toronto Faculty Of Law. He has been multifaceted in pursuits, having taught English in Tokyo, being a performance poet and a copywriter. In the professional sphere, he has worked at Skadden Arps and FashionGPS (now LaunchMetrics), where he served as General Counsel. He is passionate about enabling emerging companies to climb up the ladder through his unique perspective of providing them targeted solutions for clearing roadblocks. He and his team thus transcend beyond being a mere risk management and legal compliance firm. In his spare time, he enjoys following technology, pulp science fiction, and superhero movies, apart from being an Einstein on the Beach aficionado. Glick lives with his wife and two kids.
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