LegalGuard PLLC

About Our Firm

LegalGuard PLLC is a Michigan professional limited liability company through which licensed attorneys provide traditional, high-touch legal services to corporate clients.

Big Law Judgment

Deal experience from one of the world's top M&A and private equity practices, applied directly — no junior-associate hand-offs, no learning curve.

Focused Attention

A deliberately limited docket. You get direct partner-level engagement on your deal, not a rotating cast of unfamiliar faces.

Value-Driven Fees

Fee structures built around the deal's actual complexity and your budget — not billable-hour incentives that reward inefficiency.

Our Counsel

Led by Big Law–Trained Counsel

Licensing is stated for each attorney. LegalGuard PLLC is a Michigan professional limited liability company. Not all attorneys are admitted in every state.

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Omer Rafatullah

Licensed in Illinois; Texas admission pending

Former Kirkland & Ellis M&A / Private Equity Partner; Former Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel

Omer brings the judgment that only comes from sitting on both sides of the table. He spent years at one of the world's leading M&A and private equity practices, then moved into the executive suite as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel — running legal for a growth-stage business, not just advising one from the outside.

That dual perspective means he knows which issues actually move a deal and which are noise. His focus is M&A (sell-side and buy-side), corporate governance, and complex transactional structuring for founders and executives navigating high-stakes deals — with advice built around the commercial outcome, not the billable hour.

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Karamat Syed

Licensed in Michigan

Senior Business Executive — Engineering & Sales Leadership, JD

Karamat spent his career in the operating seat, not just the advisory one. As a senior engineering and sales executive, he built teams, owned revenue targets, and made the hard calls that separate a business that grows from one that stalls — so he knows firsthand what it actually takes to drive growth, and which legal questions matter when the clock is running.

That operator's lens, paired with his legal training, means his counsel is grounded in commercial reality: technical and structural execution on transactional matters, engineering precision applied to legal problems, and advice that helps leaders move confidently instead of getting buried in process.

How LegalGuard PLLC Works With LegalGuard LLC

LegalGuard PLLC is a separate, independently licensed law firm. It provides the legal services — legal advice, attorney work product, and representation — described on this page. LegalGuard LLC provides complementary operational and business-advisory services (contracting playbooks, revenue operations, compliance program-building) that are not legal advice and are not provided by a law firm. The two work side-by-side for clients who want both tracks, but engaging one does not create an attorney-client relationship with the other, and each is engaged and billed separately.

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Tell us about your deal or matter and we'll follow up to scope whether LegalGuard PLLC is the right fit — and loop in our network if it isn't.

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