Senior Corporate Counsel for Growth, Transactions, and Strategic Decisions
Stinson Strategy PLLC provides senior corporate, transactional, financing, governance, and strategic legal counsel to companies, founders, investors, management teams, and business owners navigating growth, complexity, and change.
Legal counsel designed for judgment, continuity, and execution.
Stinson Strategy is built around high-value corporate advisory work: outside general counsel support, strategic corporate counseling, financings, M&A, governance, and commercial matters. Selective hourly work remains available for defined matters, but the platform is designed for clients who value senior legal judgment, continuity, and strategic accountability.
Embedded Outside General Counsel
Senior legal leadership integrated with management, governance, commercial priorities, and strategic decision-making.
Strategic Corporate Advisory
Business-oriented legal counsel for companies navigating growth, governance complexity, investor dynamics, commercial risk, and operational change.
Financings & Capital Strategy
Debt and equity financings, lender and investor negotiations, capital structure, recapitalizations, private placements, and financing readiness.
Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Transactions
Acquisitions, sales, roll-ups, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, restructurings, diligence coordination, and exit readiness.

Practical legal judgment with business context.
The objective is not simply to produce legal work product. It is to help clients make better decisions, manage legal and business risk earlier, and execute important transactions with greater confidence.
- Direct access to senior counsel
- Continuity across legal and business issues
- Practical, business-oriented advice
- Coordination with specialized counsel where needed
Support that scales with the level of need.
Stinson Strategy is designed for recurring strategic relationships, with selective hourly work available where appropriate.
Embedded Outside General Counsel
For companies that need senior legal leadership closely integrated with management, operations, governance, and strategic execution.
Strategic Counsel Retainer
For companies that need recurring access to senior legal judgment, continuity across matters, and priority attention without the fixed cost of a full-time general counsel.
Hourly Legal Services
Available for defined corporate, financing, transactional, governance, and commercial matters where a retainer structure is not required.

Sulee Stinson Clay
Sulee Stinson Clay is a senior corporate and transactional lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience advising companies, founders, boards, investors, sponsors, lenders, and management teams on corporate, financing, acquisition, governance, and strategic matters.
Before founding Stinson Strategy PLLC, Sulee served as Partner and Chair of the Corporate Group at McKennon Shelton & Henn LLP. She previously practiced as a partner at DLA Piper and began her legal career at Kirkland & Ellis.