Bridging Creativity and Capital in Fashion & Luxury

Why Work With Me

Founder Focus

WHY WORK WITH ME

Unique proposition: a combination of legal expertise, business acumen, industry experience and a rich network not available anywhere else.

  • Specialized practice: 25 years he go-to resource for creatives, founders and buy-side clients

  • Strategic expertise: balancing the creative and commercial, protecting/optimizing the value of the intangibles

  • Industry experience: represented more than __ top creatives and __ companies in fashion/luxury sector

  • International presence: active between NYC and Paris, bilingual English/French, for seamless cross-cultural transactions.

Core values: Long-term horizon

  • Pragmatism Get to the point. Focus on what matters. Seek consensus.

  • Seek a mutual win Founder-investor partnerships can be durable and mutually productive. No point can be zero sum.

  • No conflict of interest in any transaction, I am the founder’s lawyer, not the company’s lawyer; I represent the founder or dvise the investor, but not both

With a client list that reads like a who’s who of the fashion world, New York lawyer Betsy Pearce is the consummate industry insider. Her ability to navigate the process of placing value on creativity has positioned her as one of the most sought after advisors in the business.
— Self Service
In business as in marriage, nobody likes to deal with the prenup. But somebody’s got to do it, and in fashion, that somebody is often attorney Elizabeth Q. Pearce.
— W magazine