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TOVA GOLDRING, ESQ.
Trusted Counsel. Personalized Service.
Combining cross-industry experience with timely, proactive, and strategic legal solutions, tailored to your business needs.
I provide fractional general counsel and transactional support for companies operating in regulated and high-growth industries, including healthcare, fintech, education, and real estate, much of it for companies with operations in more than one state. With a J.D. from Harvard Law School and experience at BigLaw and as in-house General Counsel, I bring large-firm training and an in-house perspective to every engagement. Licensed in New York and Massachusetts.
SERVICES
I serve as outside general counsel on an ongoing basis, providing senior legal oversight across commercial contracts, leasing, vendor management, employment matters, and regulatory compliance. I work directly with ownership, executives, operations leadership, and existing legal staff to align legal strategy with business objectives. Clients get the continuity and judgment of in-house counsel without the overhead of a full-time hire.
TRANSACTIONAL
SUPPORT
Senior transactional capacity on a continuing basis, without a full general counsel engagement. Contract flow, lease negotiations, employment documentation, vendor relationships, regulatory positioning, and entity and governance work, handled as they arise. This suits companies at either end: emerging and early stage businesses standing up their legal infrastructure for the first time, and established companies whose volume has outgrown ad hoc outside counsel.
PROJECT-BASED ENGAGEMENTS
For companies that need targeted support on a specific transaction, contract, or compliance matter, I offer focused engagements. Recent engagements include rebuilding a master services agreement and the contracting infrastructure around it, so routine deals no longer require legal review; a commercial lease negotiation playbook standardizing terms across a broad multi-state portfolio; and a complex vendor agreement requiring rapid turnaround.
PRACTICE AREAS
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
Master services agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, NDAs, professional services and consulting agreements, licensing arrangements, joint ventures, and other commercial agreements. I draft and negotiate with enforceability, risk allocation, and operational flexibility in mind.
CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
Entity formation and structuring, operating agreements and governing documents, corporate governance, member and shareholder arrangements, board and consent practice, and ongoing corporate maintenance. I advise founders, closely held companies, and private equity backed platforms on structure, control, and the documents that govern both.
COMMERCIAL LEASING AND REAL ESTATE
Commercial lease negotiation and management across NNN, modified gross, and full-service structures, covering new leases, renewals, amendments, and subleases. Real estate partnership and joint venture agreements. I focus on protecting operational flexibility, controlling long-term occupancy cost, and keeping lease terms aligned with the business.
EMPLOYMENT
Employment agreements, offer letters, handbooks and workplace policies, severance and separation agreements, restrictive covenants and non-competes, worker classification, and HR compliance. I advise companies on the employment infrastructure that supports growth.
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND PRIVACY
HIPAA and state privacy compliance, business associate agreements, data handling and vendor diligence, professional entity and licensing requirements, and industry-specific regulatory review across healthcare, education, and payments. I advise clients operating under overlapping state and federal authority, including businesses expanding into new states.
INDUSTRIES
HEALTHCARE
Healthcare transactions and provider engagements, including practice acquisitions and divestitures. Physician and provider staffing agreements, management services arrangements, payor and vendor contracts, workforce management, HIPAA and state privacy compliance programs, and facility leasing for multi-site clinical operations.
FINTECH AND PAYMENTS
Commercial and vendor contracting, platform and partner agreements, and transaction documentation for payments and financial technology companies. Data security and confidentiality terms, and contract templates and playbooks for companies with high-volume, repeatable deal flow.
EDUCATION
K-12, higher education, early childhood, and charter school organizations. Regulatory compliance, Title IX, public procurement, student and employee policies, board governance, and institutional transactions.
RETAIL, DISTRIBUTION, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Supply and distribution agreements, service contracts, leasing, and employment infrastructure.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Owners, investors, and multi-site operators. Lease management at portfolio scale, including a multi-state clinical platform with more than 170 locations. Massachusetts local counsel for out-of-state lead counsel and lenders on acquisitions, dispositions, and the loans that fund them.
NONPROFIT AND TAX-EXEMPT
Entity formation and tax-exempt status, governance and board advisory, mergers and dissolutions, conflicts of interest policies, and regulatory compliance for nonprofit organizations.
DIGITAL MEDIA
Licensing, content and platform agreements, website terms and conditions, privacy policies, and commercial contracting.
LITIGATION AND SPECIALIST SUPPORT
When a matter becomes contentious or requires litigation, arbitration, or trial work, I bring in litigation counsel and stay involved on the transactional and advisory side. I work as co-counsel with Steven J. Pacini and Pacini Law PLLC, while remaining involved on the transactional and advisory side. Steven founded Pacini Law after practicing for seventeen years at leading international firms, including fourteen years at Latham & Watkins. Pacini Law represents growth companies, private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, founders, executives, boards, and investors in transaction-related disputes, governance and investor conflicts, executive matters, business torts and trade secrets, and complex contractual disputes. I serve as co-counsel to Pacini Law on corporate and general counsel matters, allowing clients of either firm to add the needed transactional, advisory, or litigation capability as matters evolve without starting over with a new legal team.
