Petra Strickler
Founding partner
Forms companies and writes the agreements founders live under.
Petra opened the firm on Baylor Street after eight years drafting company agreements for other people’s clients and watching too many of them get signed unread. Most of her week goes to founders: two or three people with an idea, a little money and no paperwork. She sits them down together, asks who decides what when they disagree, and writes the answer into the agreement before anyone has a reason to argue about it.
She also leads the firm’s outside general counsel work, so the companies she forms tend to stay with her for years.
Work Petra leads
- Entity choice and formation
- Company and shareholder agreements
- Founder equity and vesting
- Outside general counsel
Petra’s admissions and schooling
Bar admissions
Texas
2009
Courts
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
B.A., Rice University
Languages
English
German
Memberships
State Bar of Texas, Business Law Section
Austin Bar Association
How Petra works
Petra meets every founder of a new company, not only the one who called. An agreement that only one founder understands is a draft, not an agreement.
She sends a plain-English summary with every document: what it says, what it leaves out, and the two or three clauses worth rereading before you sign.