About Entrepreneur Legal®
Business legal expertise and smarter document drafting
Entrepreneur Legal helps founders, startups, investors and growing businesses address their legal needs through attorney-led legal services and StartWise™ Drafting, our guided AI-assisted platform for creating business legal documents.
Whether you need individualized legal advice, attorney review, bespoke legal support or a more efficient way to create a business document yourself, Entrepreneur Legal gives you different ways to move forward.
Built for business
Built around the legal needs of entrepreneurs and growing businesses
Entrepreneur Legal® US is the business-law practice of Law Offices of Gabriel C. Mbanefo, P.C., established in New York in 2014.
Since its founding, the practice has supported entrepreneurs and businesses across a wide range of commercial matters, combining legal expertise with an understanding of the practical issues that businesses face as they start, operate and grow.
As those needs have evolved, so has Entrepreneur Legal.
Alongside traditional attorney services, Entrepreneur Legal now offers StartWise™ Drafting — a guided platform designed to give businesses a more structured way to create tailored first drafts of business legal documents.
Today, a business can use StartWise™ for a suitable self-service drafting need, request separately provided attorney review or consultation, or engage Entrepreneur Legal directly for individualized legal advice, negotiation, bespoke drafting and broader legal support.
Two ways to work with Entrepreneur Legal
Choose the route that fits the need
Attorney-led legal services and guided self-service drafting serve different needs, while remaining connected through Entrepreneur Legal.
Legal Services
Work directly with an experienced business attorney
Some matters require more than document generation.
Where a business needs individualized legal advice, legal analysis, negotiation, bespoke drafting or strategic assistance, Entrepreneur Legal provides attorney services tailored to the particular circumstances of the matter.
Our work focuses on the legal needs of entrepreneurs, startups, investors and growing businesses, including commercial agreements, company and founder matters, intellectual property and other areas of business law.
Explore US Legal Services →StartWise™ Drafting
A guided way to create business legal documents
StartWise™ helps businesses create tailored first drafts through structured, document-specific workflows.
Instead of starting with a generic template or deciding what to ask a general-purpose AI chatbot, you select the document you need and answer guided questions designed around that type of agreement, policy or business relationship.
StartWise™ uses your answers, together with relevant saved business information and document-specific drafting logic, to create a tailored first draft. Drafting Notes can also identify assumptions, follow-up points and matters that may require further attention.
Explore StartWise™ Drafting →StartWise™ Drafting is not legal advice, attorney review, legal approval or legal sign-off. Attorney review, consultations and bespoke legal services are separate services.
Choose the appropriate level
Choose the level of support that fits the matter
Not every business legal need requires the same approach.
A relatively routine document may be suitable for structured self-service drafting. Other matters involve legal judgment, negotiation, state-specific issues, regulation, substantial commercial risk or unusual circumstances and may require individualized attorney support.
Entrepreneur Legal brings different levels of assistance together so businesses can choose an appropriate starting point.
StartWise™ Drafting
Use an available guided workflow to create a tailored first draft.
Attorney Review
Request fixed-scope attorney review of an eligible document where the available review service fits the matter.
Legal Consultation
Speak with an attorney where you need advice, strategy or assistance determining the appropriate legal approach.
Bespoke Legal Services
Engage Entrepreneur Legal where the matter requires individualized drafting, negotiation, analysis or broader legal support.
Meet Our President
Gabriel C. Mbanefo
Gabriel C. Mbanefo founded Entrepreneur Legal's US legal practice and leads its work with entrepreneurs and businesses.
He is a dual-qualified business lawyer, admitted as an Attorney of the New York State Bar and as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
Gabriel's experience spans commercial and corporate law, intellectual property, international business matters and related areas of business law. Having lived and worked in both the United States and United Kingdom, he brings an international perspective to his work and has advised clients based in more than 25 countries.
In addition to leading Entrepreneur Legal's legal practice, Gabriel has overseen the development of StartWise™, combining business-law experience with guided technology designed to provide a more structured approach to routine legal-document drafting.
His professional recognition includes being named among The Top 100 Magazine's Top 100 US Attorneys in 2020.
Qualifications
- Attorney of the New York State Bar — 2011
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales — 2013
- LLM, International Commercial Law — 2005
- LLB, Bachelor of Laws — 2003
Why businesses work with Entrepreneur Legal
Legal experience applied with commercial judgment
Business-focused legal support
Legal advice should reflect the realities of the business, not simply identify legal issues. Our approach focuses on practical solutions that take account of legal requirements, commercial priorities and the circumstances of the matter.
The appropriate level of support
A routine agreement and a complex transaction do not require the same approach. StartWise™ provides a structured self-service option for suitable drafting needs, while attorney services are available where individualized legal judgment or representation is required.
Technology informed by legal experience
StartWise™ uses document-specific guided workflows rather than requiring users to determine the right legal questions or AI prompts themselves. It is designed to make the drafting process more structured while preserving a clear distinction between self-service drafting and attorney advice.
International perspective
Businesses increasingly operate across borders. Entrepreneur Legal's experience working with businesses in the United States, United Kingdom and internationally provides a broader commercial perspective while legal services remain subject to the jurisdiction and scope of the particular engagement.
Our Journey
Built over time. Evolving with business needs.
The practice is established in New York
Gabriel C. Mbanefo establishes Law Offices of Gabriel C. Mbanefo, P.C., beginning the legal practice that would develop into Entrepreneur Legal US.
Professional recognition
Gabriel is named a Top 40 Under 40 attorney by The National Black Lawyers.
An increasingly international practice
The practice continues to expand its work with entrepreneurs, businesses and clients based in the United States and internationally.
Top 100 US Attorney
Gabriel is named among The Top 100 Magazine's Top 100 US Attorneys.
Entrepreneur Legal expands
The US practice adopts the Entrepreneur Legal brand, while a separate Entrepreneur Legal business is established in the United Kingdom.
StartWise™ Drafting launches
Entrepreneur Legal launches StartWise™, introducing guided US and UK document workflows designed to give businesses a more structured way to create tailored first drafts.
StartWise™ operates alongside separately available attorney review, legal consultations and bespoke legal services.
What our clients say
Our clients have worked with Entrepreneur Legal on a range of business and commercial legal matters.
“Gabriel was very professional and helpful. He knew what I needed and understood what I needed. I would hire him any time for another job.”
Carlos Vargas“Gabriel gave me some great advice and information on a necessary portion of my business. Would work with him again!”
Nick Turner“It has been very easy working with Gabriel. Everything is explained clearly and quickly.”
Tristan DavisonHow can we help?
Need attorney advice or legal support?
Explore Entrepreneur Legal US services or contact us to discuss your matter.
Want to create a business legal document yourself?
Explore StartWise™'s current guided document workflows and create an account to get started.
StartWise™ Drafting is a self-service guided drafting platform and is not legal advice, attorney review, legal approval or legal sign-off. Creating an account, using StartWise™, purchasing drafting credits or generating a document does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. Attorney review, consultations and bespoke legal services are separately provided only where expressly agreed and subject to applicable conflicts, onboarding and engagement requirements.