KAYA LEGAL
Embedded Legal Advisory · Business & Legal Affairs

We give media, content, and
technology companies an embedded legal team— on the record
with GC-level judgment, without the full-time headcount.

We serve as the single point of legal accountability inside growth-stage organizations — embedded in the business, not bolted onto it — and bring in specialist outside counsel, on your behalf, whenever a matter calls for it.

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Kaya Legal PLLC is a fractional advisory practice, not a traditional law firm — we're embedded in your business day to day, and we flag early when a matter calls for specialized outside counsel, then manage that relationship on your behalf.

Scope

What we do

Eight practice lanes — reflecting the needs that come up most consistently for media, content, and technology companies at this stage, based on what we've actually seen and built judgment in.

§01
Editorial & Media Law
Copyright, fair use, DMCA response, and pre-publication risk review. We read copy before it runs, not after it's a problem.
§02
Licensing, IP & Brand Partnerships
Content licenses, brand collaborations, and partnership agreements structured to hold up under real usage, not just in the redline.
§03
Commercial Contracting & Business Development
The full stack of agreements a digital media or technology company runs on — vendor, production, technology, and venue deals across the US and UK — plus hands-on experience sourcing, structuring, and closing business development deals, not just papering them after the fact.
§04
Employment & Workforce
Policies, separations, and building out teams through contractor relationships rather than employees — done to protect the company and treat people fairly along the way.
§05
Product, Privacy & AI Counseling
In the room with product and engineering early enough that privacy, AI risk, and data use considerations shape the roadmap instead of chasing it — and for deep technical or regulatory questions, working alongside specialized privacy and AI counsel rather than guessing at it.
§06
Corporate Governance
Board formation and onboarding, equity documentation, bylaws — the infrastructure that lets a growing company actually govern itself.
§07
Outside Counsel Management
Sourcing, scoping, and overseeing specialist firms so you get expert coverage without managing five separate relationships yourself.
§08
Legal Infrastructure
Templates, contracting frameworks, and outside counsel guidelines — the systems that make legal a function, not a bottleneck.
Model

How we work

Embedded, not outsourced

We work inside the business

We show up in leadership conversations, not just contract threads — because good legal judgment requires knowing the business, not just the document in front of you.

Accountability

One point of contact

You have a single person who owns the legal picture end to end — not a rotating cast of associates you have to re-brief every time.

Coverage

A bench, not a black box

When a matter needs deep specialist expertise outside our lane, we bring in a vetted partner — and stay the point of contact throughout, so nothing falls through a seam.

Discipline

Honest about scope

We take on what falls squarely within our expertise. Naming what's outside that scope, early, is part of the job — not a gap to paper over.

Leverage

AI-enabled, not AI-replaced

We use AI tools to move faster and keep costs down — then reinvest that time in building playbooks and processes customized to how your team actually works, so recurring, repeatable matters can be handled in-house without waiting on outside counsel for every one.

Perspective

A thought partner, not just a signer-off

We track where the law and the technology are heading — AI regulation, platform liability, IP — and bring that point of view to leadership before it's a live problem, not just an answer when asked.

Fit

Who we're built for

  • Digital media, publishing, and content companies with real editorial or creative output
  • Technology companies with a product, platform, or UGC dimension — not pure back-office compliance
  • Growth-stage organizations that need GC-level judgment before they need GC-level headcount
  • Teams navigating a launch, a build-out, or a structural inflection point where legal needs to move at the speed of the business
What we don't do: we're not deal counsel for M&A, securities offerings, or equity issuances — or for nonprofit-specific regulatory work, complex litigation, or heavy benefits/ERISA mandates. For those, we identify the right specialized firm and stay the coordinator, not a bystander.

Where we do help: getting the business ready for that outside counsel. We've led internal readiness for financings and refinancings in-house — organizing diligence, coordinating stakeholders, and managing the process end to end — so the deal team can move fast once they're engaged.
Background

Where the practice comes from

Kaya Legal is built on a career spent entirely at the intersection of media, content, and technology — starting with corporate training at large Big Law firms, then moving in-house to run legal for products and platforms people actually used every day.

That range shows up in how we advise: comfortable in a term sheet, comfortable in a pre-publication read, comfortable telling engineering what the roadmap needs to account for before it ships. It also includes running business and legal affairs alongside business development — sitting on the deal side, not just reviewing it after terms are set — and deep trust and safety experience: content moderation policy, platform risk, and UGC governance built running these programs at scale inside a major tech platform.

Big Law training, followed by in-house legal leadership at
Getty Images ALM Media Amazon BDG Media
We think the best legal advice reads like good editing: clear, specific, and in service of the thing you're actually trying to make.

Get in touch

ezgi@kayalegal.com

Based in

Tribeca, New York City