Christine Lawton
Attorney, IP strategist, dealmaker, and board advisor. Thirty years spent in the rooms where the deals get done, and the work that happens between the lines and between the people.
Most people think the best deals are about an iron-clad contract. The best deals I've worked on always came down to the best relationships.
The contract was never the hard part. The hard part was figuring out what each side needed to be able to say yes, and underneath all of it, the thing nobody was saying out loud yet.
That's the work I've done my whole career. Not arguing harder for one side, not burying the room in paper, but understanding what people mean, what they can't find the words for, what matters, and structuring the deal around it.
I'm who you bring in when the deal matters too much to lose, when the relationship matters too much to break, and when the real work is between the lines and between the people. I do this with founders and operators building things that have never been done before, the kind of people who move at the speed of their own conviction.
A dancer, an attorney, a first-generation American.
My family arrived with nothing and no one but the will to learn, to work, and a belief in themselves. I was pushed away from the starving-artist path, and found that creativity through problem solving became my creative muscle. Law turned out to be the perfect canvas for creating inside a creative industry.
It's a little like directing. Pulling everything together to tell the story, structuring it so the people who made something together can prosper from it.
Three decades, across the table from the biggest names in media and tech.
"I've known Christine as a professional and dear friend for 23+ years. She is unwavering, creative, thoughtful, and caring, and brings a rare wisdom to every interaction. She'd be a powerful asset to any client who's able to engage her."Jim SteyerFounder & CEO, Common Sense Media · Adjunct Professor, Stanford University