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Commercial agreements
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer, vendor, licensing, partnership, and other technology agreements. I help you protect the positions that matter without losing momentum.
Fractional commercial & product counsel for B2B SaaS
Practical legal counsel, built into your business.
Growing SaaS companies need counsel who can keep deals moving, guide product decisions, and build legal systems that scale with the business. You can get that support without hiring a full-time lawyer.
Commercial and product counsel
Senior legal support for commercial, product, privacy, and AI matters, with practical legal systems developed as your priorities require
Commercial contracts
Product & privacy
AI guidance
Legal operations
Legal OS developed within the engagement when agreed as a priority
Work directly with Obehi
IBM & Wilson Sonsini experience
Penn Law · Licensed in New York
Commercial, product, privacy & AI
How I help
One legal partner for the commercial and product decisions that come with scaling.
Senior, business-minded counsel across contracts, product, privacy, AI, and legal operations without assembling a different team for every question.
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Product, privacy, and AI
Practical guidance on product launches, data use, AI features, customer commitments, and third-party integrations. Your team gets answers early enough to act.
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Day-to-day legal guidance
Ongoing support for the questions between formal matters. Advice reflects your business model, commercial priorities, and actual approach to risk.
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Legal operations
Templates, contract positions, approval rules, escalation paths, and better processes for recurring work. The goal is to make routine work faster, clearer, and easier to manage.
A strong fit when
The typical client is a growing B2B SaaS company with recurring commercial and product work, an enterprise sales motion, and no practical need for a full-time legal hire yet.
- You sell B2B software or technology services to larger customers.
- Commercial and product questions now arrive every week, not once a quarter.
- You have no full-time in-house attorney, or a lean legal team needs senior capacity.
- Enterprise negotiations are exposing inconsistent positions and approval paths.
- Product, privacy, data, or AI questions are appearing before launch.
- Leadership wants one accountable legal partner who learns how the business works.
Legal OS
Legal advice should become more useful over time.
As part of a fractional counsel engagement, you can choose Legal OS as a priority. In that case, the recurring guidance that emerges from active legal work is developed into reusable contract positions, approval rules, team guidance, and a decision record—creating a practical operating layer for your company.
Legal OS work is one possible use of monthly capacity, not a separate software subscription or a requirement that competes with urgent legal work. Priorities are set with you.
See how Legal OS works →
About
Experienced counsel. Direct involvement.
I’m Obehi Ota, a technology transactions attorney whose experience spans corporate practice at Simpson Thacher, technology transactions roles at IBM and Wilson Sonsini, and independent practice. My work has covered commercial agreements, software and cloud services, product matters, data use, privacy, intellectual property, and strategic relationships.
I earned my J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and hold degrees in Computer Information Systems and Information Science. My legal experience and technical training help me:
- Navigate enterprise contracting from both customer and vendor perspectives.
- Translate between legal, sales, product, and engineering teams.
- Distinguish legal risk from technical or operational constraints.
- Develop contract positions that sales teams can use in live negotiations.
Clients work with me directly, so each new matter benefits from what I already know about their business.
Obehi Ota
Pronounced oh-BEH-hee UH-tah
Technology Transactions Attorney · Licensed in New York
LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab)The engagement
Three levels of fractional legal support.
Choose the level of support that helps your company move its most important legal work forward.
- Focused: move the legal priority that matters most now
- Fractional: keep recurring legal work moving with the business
- Expanded: keep overlapping legal priorities from becoming business bottlenecks
Focused Counsel
$3,500
per month
Fractional Counsel
$6,500
per month
Expanded Counsel
$10,500
per month
Common questions
Know how the relationship works before you book.
Who performs the legal work?
You work directly with Obehi. I perform all substantive legal work within the engagement. If a matter requires specialist counsel outside the agreed scope, I will identify that need and can help coordinate the right resource.
What counts toward monthly capacity?
Substantive work counts toward the monthly limit, including calls, drafting, review, negotiation, research, email or Slack advice, coordination, and Legal OS development. Routine scheduling, invoicing, conflict check work, and other firm administration do not.
How are urgent deadlines handled?
Ordinary requests follow the response expectations for your plan. Time-sensitive commercial deadlines are prioritized when you provide as much advance notice as possible and monthly capacity permits. The plans do not include guaranteed same-day or around-the-clock coverage; companies that regularly need that level of access may be better served by a custom engagement.
What happens after the introductory call?
The 20-minute call is a fit and scoping conversation about your business, recurring legal needs, current priorities, and timing. If there is a potential fit, the next steps are a conflict check and a written engagement proposal. No attorney-client relationship begins until the conflict check is complete and both parties sign an engagement agreement.
Start with a conversation
Let’s determine what kind of legal support you actually need.
Book a 20-minute callOr email Obehi
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information before the firm confirms an attorney-client relationship.