Ronald Baldwin

Professional Experience

Ronald E. Baldwin served as General Counsel for Risk Management Solutions, Inc., during its major growth phase, and has served as outsourced lead counsel for dozens of start up firms. He finds solutions that meet the dual and sometimes competing interests of sound legal strategies that coincide with pragmatic, effective business strategies. His practice focuses on helping start up and early growth stage companies get off on the right track. He promotes a cost-controlled menu of services to fit the needs of each individual organization, including entity selection, formation, tax planning, capital raising activities, founder agreements, option plans, initial corporate governance and compliance programs, commercial/transactional matters (including contract template creation), implementation of effective policies and procedures (employment, privacy, ethics code of conduct, and others as applicable), and creation of an effective contract management and legal function within the company. This includes participation in an ongoing outsourced General Counsel role on a cost effective basis.

Areas of expertise include corporations, partnerships, LLCs, securities law (particularly Regulation D compliance, most relevant to new organizations), intellectual property rights, transactional law, licensing, corporate governance, risk management, and law department management consulting.

Mr. Baldwin received his Baccalaureate degree in Economics with emphasis in Accounting from the University of Southern California, worked in the tax department of a “Big 4” firm early in his career, received his juris doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and dual MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and the University of California, Haas School of Business joint program.

Bars & Courts

• Admitted to the State Bar of California
• United States District Court for Northern and Central Districts of California
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• US Bankruptcy Court, Northern and Central Districts of California

Education

• Berkeley-Columbia Join MBA Program, Master of Business Administration
• University of California, Berkeley at Berkeley, Juris Doctor, Hastings College of the Law
• University of Southern California Bachelor of Arts in Economics