Strategic Counsel. Legal Precision.
Navi Legal, APC delivers high-impact legal advisory services designed to aggressively advance and protect our clients' interests on every level.
24/7 access to your attorney. Actually.
📞 (310) 880-5508 | 📧 alex@navi.legal

Practice Areas
In-House Counsel
In-House Counsel, without the overhead.
We offer unique flat-fee legal service packages designed to offer predictable, cost-effective legal solutions for your enterprise. We are there when you need us, and not there when you don't.
This includes:
- Commercial Transactions: Comprehensive contract review, drafting, and negotiation for vendor, client, leases, loans, employment agreements, and more.
- Compliance, Risk & Conflict Management: Dispute resolution, regulatory compliance, and litigation management.
- Strategic Growth: Business development advisory and strategic networking to connect your enterprise with key industry partners.
- Asset & Portfolio Optimization: Strategic asset and portfolio management, loan advisory, insurance coverage advisory, and the commercialization and licensing of critical intellectual property.
- Corporate Governance & Formation: Entity formation and structuring guidance, corporate governance, and ongoing compliance.
Real Estate Law
Our practice is built on a career foundation of managing and advising aggregate real estate portfolio values exceeding $8 billion. We leverage this extensive background to provide precise structuring, drafting, negotiation, and review for a broad range of property agreements, including:
- Transaction & Asset Management: Commercial, industrial, and residential ground leases; retail triple-net (NNN) leases; purchase and sale agreements (PSA); property management and asset management agreements; brokerage and listing agreements; insurance policies; and vendor/service contracts.
- Financing & Capital Markets: Loan & security agreements, promissory notes, deeds of trust, intercreditor and subordination agreements, and refinancing documentation.
- Development & Land Use: Development and construction contracts, easements, covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs), and cross-easement agreements.
- Advisory & Conflict Resolution: Complex due diligence management, title and survey review, regulatory compliance advisory, and the strategic resolution of landlord/tenant and co-owner disputes.
Commercial Transactions
Our firm provides counsel to enterprises at every stage of the transaction lifecycle, from initial structuring, to negotiations & due diligence, through high-stakes closing. This encompasses:
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures: Structuring, negotiating, and executing sell-side and buy-side transactions, MIPAs, asset purchases, stock acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic corporate roll-ups.
- Financing & Debt Transactions: Structuring, negotiating, and documenting secured and unsecured financing arrangements, including business and commercial loans, convertible notes, warrants, lines of credit, mezzanine financing, property-secured loans, HELOCs, and other debt instruments. We advise borrowers and lenders on collateral, guarantees, covenants, priority, inter-creditor arrangements, and other terms designed to protect their interests throughout the financing lifecycle.
- Deal Structuring & Due Diligence: Conducting rigorous commercial due diligence, identifying material liabilities, and drafting definitive transaction documents, including purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, and rollover equity terms.
- Commercial Agreements & Vendor Networks: Drafting and negotiating the operational contracts that drive revenue, including Master Services Agreements (MSAs), supply chain and distribution networks, SaaS terms, and strategic alliance frameworks.
- Licensing, IP & Tech Monetization: Structuring IP commercialization, technology transfers, software licensing, and strategic partnerships designed to monetize enterprise assets while safeguarding proprietary rights.
- Corporate Financing, Restructuring & Recapitalization: Guiding businesses through strategic financing, equity re-allocations, buyouts, buy-sell agreements, and structural reorganizations to prepare for growth or strategic exit.
- Employment & Workforce Architecture: Preparing executive employment and independent contractor agreements, severance agreements, and non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements (NDAs).
Entity Formation
Our Flat-Fee Business Formation practice provides clear, upfront pricing for establishing entities tailored to your operational goals, liability protection, and tax strategies. We offer:
- Entity Selection & Corporate Architecture: Strategic guidance on selecting the optimal entity structure (i.e. LLC, S-Corporation, C-Corporation, or Professional Corporation) based on your ownership model, growth plans, and risk profile.
- Turnkey Formation & Regulatory Filings: Preparation and filing of Articles of Organization or Incorporation, obtaining Federal Tax IDs (EINs), registering foreign entities across state lines, and securing initial state compliance requirements.
- Custom Governance & Ownership Documents: Drafting comprehensive Operating Agreements, Corporate Bylaws, Initial Board and Shareholder Resolutions, and Stock/Unit Certificates customized to reflect ownership split, voting rights, and capital contributions.
- Founder & Equity Protection: Structuring founder equity vesting schedules, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), intellectual property assignment agreements, and buy-sell provisions to safeguard business equity early on.
Intellectual Property
Our Intellectual Property practice helps businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs protect their hard work, maximize commercial value, and prevent unauthorized use. Our core services include:
- Trademark Registration & Brand Strategy: Comprehensive clearance searches, federal and state trademark prosecution, portfolio management, and trademark enforcement to protect your brand identity, logos, and slogans.
- Copyright Protection & Licensing: Registration, licensing agreements, and counsel on creative assets, including software, written works, digital media, design, and artistic content.
- Trade Secrets & Proprietary Information: Structuring non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), invention assignment agreements, and internal operational safeguards to protect confidential business processes, customer lists, and core technologies.
- IP Commercialization & Strategic Contracts: Drafting and negotiating licensing, monetization, distribution, and strategic partnership agreements to leverage your IP assets effectively while minimizing risk.
- Enforcement & IP Dispute Resolution: Issuing and responding to cease-and-desist notifications, handling DMCA takedown requests, and providing strategic counsel on infringement and ownership disputes.
Venture Capital & Startup Advisory
We deliver full-lifecycle counsel to founders, startups, and growth-stage companies. We protect founder equity, attract premium investment, and maintain a clean corporate architecture poised for future growth and exit.
Our firm delivers end-to-end legal support:
- Entity Formation: Strategic choice of entity and jurisdiction (e.g., Delaware C-Corp conversions), founder equity allocation, vesting schedules, IP assignment agreements, and shareholder agreements.
- Early-Stage & Bridge Financing: Structuring and negotiating SAFEs, convertible promissory notes, bridge loans, credit lines, and warrant agreements.
- Priced Equity Rounds: Including stock purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, voting agreements, and right of first refusal agreements.
- Intellectual Property Protection: IP Strategy, including trademark and copyright filings, trade secret protection protocols, and technology licensing agreements.
- Commercial Transactions & Scale: Drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements, MSAs, vendor contracts, privacy policies, ToS.
- Strategic Deal Advisory & Exit Readiness: Term sheet evaluation, investor expectation mapping, federal and state securities compliance, and M&A/exit preparation.
Injuries & Damages
Built on a proven track record of maximum recovery for our clients, we combine rigorous risk strategy with aggressive enforcement to safeguard our clients' physical, commercial, and intellectual assets in cases including:
Property & Real Asset Damage: Commercial and residential property damage claims, real estate defect liability, environmental contamination, inverse condemnation, trespass, nuisance, and casualty/insurance recovery.
Business & Economic Loss: Tortious interference with contractual relations, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, unfair competition, business interruption losses, and commercial dispute damages.
Intellectual Property & Intangibles: Patent, trademark, and copyright infringement damages; trade secret misappropriation; brand reputation harm; and valuation of proprietary asset loss.
Risk Advisory & Conflict Resolution: Pre-litigation risk exposure assessment, damages modeling, insurance coverage litigation, settlement negotiation, and strategic alternative dispute resolution.
Personal Injury & Tort Liability: Severe bodily injury, catastrophic accident claims, premises liability, product liability, professional malpractice, and general negligence defense and recovery.
TRUSTED BY LEADING COMPANIES
Founder & Managing Attorney
Alexander J. Navi, Esq. brings deep public and private sector expertise to high-growth businesses, founders, and executives. Having served as General Corporate Counsel across diverse industries and Special Counsel to over 25 LA County municipalities, he manages business and real estate portfolios exceeding an aggregate of $8 billion, closed tens of millions in transactions, and resolved high-stakes, complex litigation and mediations across a myriad practice areas.
Admissions
State Bar of California
Education
J.D., Southwestern Law School, 2022
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2019, Provost Honors
CONTACT US
Whether you are navigating a dispute, structuring a transaction, or suffering damages, we are prepared to guide you. Tell us about your situation below.
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Notable Deals
Represented seller partnership in the $33.5 million disposition of a 66+ unit multifamily asset in Glendale, CA, including negotiation of the sale agreement and due diligence management.
Represented the owner of a portfolio consisting of 1,200 multi-family units throughout SoCal in strategic leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and condominiumizations.
Represented buyer in the acquisition of an Equipment Share sale-leaseback portfolio throughout various industrial submarkets valued at over $10m (100k+ RSF of low-coverage industrial properties).
Represented real estate private equity founder in the acquisition of a 28 unit multi-family building in Canoga Park, CA, listed at $5.5m.
Represented Hollywood entertainment real estate company in the strategic leasing of office and studio space in Hollywood, Glendale, and Burbank (800+ office & production studio units), expense optimization, comprehensive litigation management, and regulatory compliance.
Represented Silicon Valley tech real estate company in the strategic leasing of 400+ office units in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, CA.
Represented tech venture capital firm regarding investment analytics, IP protection, strategic leasing, licensing, and corporate partnership ventures in Los Angeles, CA.
Jointly represented lessor and its sister construction company in the long-term NNN leases of a retail health services space and cafe space in Los Angeles, collectively valued $3+ million.
Represented landlord and its affiliated construction firm in negotiating a long-term NNN lease with Los Angeles County, including tenant improvements, for a 30,000+ SF office building in Huntington Park.
Represented landlord in the leasing and management of over 350+ office and retail units in Bay Area, CA, Downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park, CA, Baldwin Park, CA, Ventura, CA, and Central California.
Represented SoCal property management company in the management and leasing of 700+ multi-family units in Los Angeles, comprehensive litigation oversight, and regulatory compliance.
Represented general contracting company in the entitlement and development of 370+ unit mixed-use building in Glendale, CA.
Represented the largest privately owned water company in Spain regarding real estate acquisition, IP protection, and strategic leasing.
Represented a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in negotiating and financing a solar panel installation project valued at over $2.8 million at its headquarters.
Represented Silicon Valley tech venture capital firm and parent co. in the remediation of ground water contaminants and the management of related easements at its headquarters.
Represented a Persian art certification non-profit in their formation, tax exemption status, and general corporate governance.
