SBH was founded by lawyers and entrepreneurs who saw that the traditional law firm model is broken. Our partners have decades of experience in law and business—we trained in top global law firms, served as general counsel, and built companies of our own. We know what it’s like to be the client—to hire lawyers, manage them, and pay their bills—and we use that perspective to deliver legal strategies that serve real business goals.
Our expertise spans corporate governance, M&A, contracts, finance, business litigation, entertainment, media, real estate, and labor and employment. Our practice is lean and efficient, with no bureaucracy, no misaligned incentives, and no unnecessary overhead. We use the same modern technology and business processes we used in our own companies and offer flexible billing—monthly, project-based, hourly, or custom—because fees should reflect value delivered, not hours logged.
Our external general counsel practice delivers sophisticated, ongoing legal support without the cost of an in-house legal team. We embed in your business, anticipate risks before they become problems, and provide proactive counsel at every stage of growth.
We built SBH to be the kind of firm we would hire—one that operates with the speed and efficiency of a modern business while delivering the results of a big law firm.
What We Do
Our Services
External General Counsel
We partner with clients to deliver proactive and ongoing legal support without the cost of an in-house legal department.
We build and manage critical legal systems for our clients. As founders and general counsels ourselves, we know what companies need from a legal department. We fill that role without the cost of an internal legal team. Our approach combines practical risk management with growth-minded strategies tailored to achieving business goals.
Most law firms are reactive to distinct legal issues clients ask them to handle—we’re different. We partner with our clients to deliver strategic, proactive and ongoing legal support that drives informed, timely decisions that minimize risk and maximize upside.
We handle corporate and fund governance, contracts, M&A, corporate transactions, compliance frameworks, dispute resolution and other ongoing legal issues that arise in every business. Our practice serves a wide range of industries, including technology, hospitality, entertainment, FinTech, payment processing and real estate. Our experience as lawyers and operators in these industries positions us to anticipate and identify important legal issues early and solve them effectively.
Commercial Contracts
We negotiate, structure, draft and manage commercial agreements.
Contracts are not just documents—they create, protect and enhance value. We understand the business realities behind every agreement and structure contracts to minimize legal exposure and maximize business and economic objectives.
We have real world expertise in all kinds of contracts that make businesses work, including customer agreements, vendor and supplier agreements, service agreements, strategic partnership agreements, intellectual property agreements, technology agreements, distribution agreements, referral agreements, entertainment industry agreements, employment agreements and independent contractor agreements. We also help clients build scalable contract systems, standardize templates and implement review processes that accelerate contract cycles and enhance the value of every agreement.
Our commercial contracts practice serves a wide range of industries, including technology, hospitality, entertainment, FinTech, payment processing and real estate. We leverage our business and legal experience in all these industries to give our clients the edge in every contract negotiation.
Corporate & Transactions
We structure companies and funds, and negotiate and structure corporate transactions.
We represent companies, founders and executives at every stage of the corporate lifecycle from formation to complex corporate transactions. Corporate governance decisions are not just about compliance—they shape how companies mitigate risk and maximize value. As founders and investors ourselves, we know how to structure companies and funds to achieve long-term business objectives. We advise clients in all aspects of corporate governance, including business and fund formation, operating and partnership agreements and shareholder matters.
Businesses are built on transactions. We have personally financed, bought and sold businesses, and represent companies, funds, founders and investors in M&A, fund formation, finance and other corporate transactions. We know how to extract maximum value from every transaction and advise our clients in all aspects of the transaction process from sourcing, to valuation, to diligence, to risk-allocation, to closing.
Our transactional lawyers advise clients in a variety of industries, including technology, hospitality, entertainment, media, FinTech, payment processing and real estate. Our experience as founders and operators in these industries positions us to understand the complexities and business objectives involved in each transaction and extract maximum value out of every deal.
Litigation & Disputes
We defend, prosecute and resolve commercial disputes.
We are former litigators in top global law firms. And as founders and executives ourselves, we understand what’s at stake when disagreements threaten a company. Our approach blends rigorous legal advocacy with practical business judgment focused on achieving efficient, cost-effective and business-oriented results.
We evaluate disputes from both a legal and business perspective, and employ strategies centered on quickly identifying and maximizing leverage points, assessing risk and using litigation tools to achieve broader business objectives. Our goal is simple—when inevitable business disputes arise, extract maximum value for our clients as quickly as possible.
We handle complex business disputes, including those involving contracts, intellectual property, partnerships, M&A, labor and employment, business torts and fraud. Our litigation team also serves a wide range of industries, including technology, hospitality, entertainment, FinTech, payment processing and real estate. Our deep experience as both lawyers and operators positions us to uniquely understand our clients’ goals and solve business disputes efficiently and effectively.
Who We Are
Our People
Evan Sypek
Evan is a transactional, entertainment, and media lawyer and advisor. He represents production companies, hospitality groups, venture capital funds, and startups.
Overview
Evan’s entertainment and media practice serves creators, production companies, investors, and other entertainment industry players in all aspects of entertainment related ventures. Evan also helps clients protect intellectual property, structure partnerships, secure financing, and negotiate complex deals that drive long-term enterprise value.
Experience
Evan began his legal career as a finance, bankruptcy, and corporate lawyer at Sheppard Mullin where his practice focused on commercial lending and other corporate transactions. He then pivoted to the entertainment industry, where he served as an attorney in the Business and Legal Affairs division at MGM Television, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at NBC Universal, and Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at Westbrook Studios, before founding his prior firm, Sypek Legal P.C. Evan also founded and ran a successful investment vehicle with holdings in real estate, consumer products, FinTech, and other sectors.
Evan has negotiated a wide variety of entertainment deals, including talent agreements, complex financing and distribution deals, and high-volume production transactions. In the hospitality space, Evan has launched, built, and served as general counsel for multiple businesses, including private membership clubs, restaurants and hospitality software companies.
Credentials
Evan earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from Northeastern University.
John Hynes
John is a corporate and litigation lawyer and advisor. He represents companies, funds, founders, and executives in corporate and fund governance, M&A, commercial contracts, finance, commercial disputes, and other corporate matters.
Overview
John represents clients in industries including technology, hospitality, service, and real estate. He advises his clients on corporate governance and corporate transactions, including M&A, finance, fund formation, and commercial contracts. John also represents clients in business disputes, including those involving contracts, partnership disputes, M&A, business torts, and fraud. John’s general counsel and entrepreneurial background shapes his growth-minded approach to designing legal strategies that both minimize risk and maximize value for his clients.
Experience
John started his career at Sheppard Mullin—an international AmLaw 100 law firm—where he represented fortune 100 companies, startups and founders in corporate matters, business litigation and government investigations. He then served as General Counsel for Financial Systems Corporation—a large electronic payments company which he helped scale and sell to a public acquirer. Then, John co-founded and served as General Counsel for Boom Commerce—a national FinTech and electronic payments company—which he built and sold to a public acquirer for more than $100 million dollars. John is also co-founder and General Counsel of Forza Capital—a private financing company that makes structured credit and equity investments in industries including real estate, software, FinTech and consumer products. He also co-founded Passo—a fully integrated real estate development company dedicated to providing affordable housing across Los Angeles.
Credentials
John earned his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from Southwestern Law School and his B.A. from Michigan State University.
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The type of personal information we collect depends on your
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Other identifying information: Partial social security number or
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expression, sexual orientation, and veteran or military status.
Professional and employment-related information: If you are
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salary range, education, current or past job history or performance
evaluations, resume, skills, qualifications, and education
records.
Internet and other electronic activity: IP address, including
information about how you navigate the Internet, operating system,
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We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, as defined
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proceedings.
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you.
If you are in Europe, our basis for processing your information is
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responding to your request. We also process information based on consent
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We combine information we obtain from different sources with publicly
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disclosure and the business purpose for collection.
A copy of (Virginia) or specific pieces of (California) personal
information collected.
To have us delete information we collected from you.
To ask us to fix your information.
Not to be discriminated against for exercising a privacy
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In some situations, we may not be able to process your request. This
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by mail send your requests and questions to: Sypek Brin Hynes LLP, 145
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We may update this policy from time to time. The updated policy will
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