The law is rarely black or white.
I help navigate the grey.

I'm Ian Daily, a California business attorney — and I've sat on your side of the table. Before this firm, I founded and ran businesses of my own: scaling CPG distribution operations past $100M in wholesale revenue, directing business and legal strategy for a SaaS startup, and leading an AI venture in cross-border SME M&A. When you describe margin pressure, a cap table, or a distribution agreement going sideways, you won't have to translate.

The legal side: five years as founder and managing attorney of VINSA Law and Altaris Law, a transactional practice serving high-growth and heavily regulated industries — mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, tax planning, and compliance in markets where the rules were being written in real time. Litigation experience in federal and California state courts. Before law, I led Marine Corps maintenance teams in Okinawa — 250 Marines, $25M in equipment — which is where I learned that precision and speed aren't opposites.

This practice is deliberately narrow: formation, contracts, compliance, negotiations, and deals for small businesses and ventures. Inside that scope, you get someone who speaks your stack, prices like the tools you already buy, and answers like a colleague — not a memo. Outside it, I'll say so in the first conversation and point you somewhere better suited.