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Business law · Hartford and New Haven

Call me before you sign

I’m Nkechi Mbadiwe. With Vittorio and Wynne, I help Connecticut owners start companies, buy and sell them, settle fights between partners and hand the business on, from offices in Hartford and New Haven.

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Nkechi Mbadiwe in a blue head wrap, a black blazer and a grey top

Two offices

Come to Hartford or New Haven

Walk in, or stay where you are: most first calls happen by phone or video, and we can meet at your shop or yard once we’re working together.

Practices

Four ways owners come to us

  • Four people around a table with laptops and a whiteboard of sticky notes

    Starting a company

    Entity, operating agreement and the first hires, signed before the first sale.

    Starting up
  • A barber in an empty shop, seated in one of his chairs

    Buying or selling

    Letters of intent, due diligence and closing papers, read for one side only.

    Deals
  • Colleagues talking around a table beside a tall factory-style window

    Disputes

    Partners who disagree, customers who don’t pay, vendors who walk away.

    Disagreements
  • An older couple in aprons in the aisle of their grocery shop

    Handing it on

    A buyout, a family transfer or a sale to the staff, on a timeline you pick.

    Stepping back

Who you’ll call

The three of us, by name

Each of us answers our own phone and does our own work. Start with whoever sounds closest to your problem.

  • Nkechi Mbadiwe in a blue head wrap, a black blazer and a grey top

    Nkechi Mbadiwe

    Founding partner, Hartford

    Sets up companies and sits beside owners at the table when a business is bought, sold or handed on.

  • Vittorio Pellegrino, smiling in a navy suit and striped tie, in front of a pale mint wall

    Vittorio Pellegrino

    Partner, New Haven

    Settles disagreements between partners, customers and vendors, and tries the ones that won’t settle.

  • Wynne Quarrington in a navy blazer, holding a black folder in a bright office

    Wynne Quarrington

    Of counsel, Hartford

    Reads and writes the contracts a business runs on, from leases to supplier terms.

From owners

What owners told us afterwards

“I had signed three leases without a lawyer. Nkechi found the same trap in all three and showed me how to stop it in the fourth.”

Dara S.Café owner, Hartford

“My partner wanted out and neither of us wanted a fight. Vittorio kept it a conversation, and the buyout fit on one page.”

Joel K.Landscaping company, New Haven

“Wynne rewrote our supplier contract in plain English. For the first time I know what I agreed to.”

Priya N.Wholesale bakery, Hartford

Sample reviews, to be replaced with your own. Every client’s matter is different; what happened for one owner doesn’t predict what will happen for another.

Read it with me before you sign it

Tell me what’s on your desk: a lease, a partner’s proposal, an offer for the business. I’ll tell you on the first call whether it needs a lawyer yet.

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A first call doesn’t make us your lawyers; a signed engagement letter does.