Glossary
A Glossary of Deal Terms
The equity, control, money and rights terms that recur in founder and entertainment agreements, defined plainly.
Open the glossaryThe Private Brief
Reference
Most of what a firm publishes is written to be read once. These three are written to be kept — opened mid-negotiation, put on a board agenda, forwarded to a collaborator who was not in the room.
Each sits behind an essay in the Brief. The essay makes the argument; this is the part you look up afterwards.
Explainer
The Split Sheet, Explained
One page recording who wrote what — the cheapest document in music, and the one most often skipped.
Open the explainerCalendar
The Nonprofit Compliance Calendar
What recurs every year in a New York 501(c)(3), stated as the rule that sets each deadline.
Open the calendarThis is general information about how these instruments and obligations usually work, not legal advice about your situation, and reading it does not make you a client. Deadlines and requirements turn on facts particular to you — your fiscal year, your state, the agreement actually in front of you. Confirm your own before you rely on any of it.