Jeff Holman
Fractional Legal Team for Startups and Scaling Businesses
About
Intellectual Strategies is a Fractional Legal Team for Innovation-Driven Companies
As a Fractional General Counsel and founder of Intellectual Strategies®, I help startups and scaling businesses innovate with confidence. I specialize in building and leading tailored legal teams that align with each client's unique business model, growth trajectory, and risk profile.
With a strong foundation in intellectual property, commercial contracts, and corporate governance, I support innovation-focused companies—especially in SaaS, ecommerce, and emerging tech industries—through every stage of growth. Whether guiding early-stage founders through formation and funding, or helping scaleups navigate IP strategy, employment matters, or complex deals, I offer clear, business-aligned legal solutions that reduce friction and increase velocity.
My approach integrates deeply with each client’s strategic priorities, enabling us to proactively address legal challenges and uncover new opportunities. Through our Fractional Legal Team model, I lead multidisciplinary legal teams that serve as a seamless extension of in-house operations—providing consistent, accessible, and scalable legal support.
At Intellectual Strategies, we deliver on our promise of strategic alignment, collaborative execution, and deep subject-matter expertise. Our proprietary process includes developing a customized Legal Roadmap, assembling the right team, and delivering ongoing legal guidance through playbooks and regular strategy sessions.
Whether advising venture-backed startups, supporting ecommerce disruptors, or guiding SaaS companies through expansion and acquisition, I bring a trusted, entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for helping clients build boldly.
Core Focus Areas: Fractional General Counsel Services Strategic Legal Counseling Intellectual Property Strategy & Protection Commercial Contracts & Transactions Corporate Formation, Governance, and Funding Risk Management & Dispute Resolution
Practice areas
- Commercial Contracts > SaaS Agreements
- Intellectual Property > Patents
- Intellectual Property > Trademarks
- General Corporate
- Intellectual Property
- Technology Law
Featured clients
Services
Integrated Legal Counsel
Providing seamless, business-focused legal support tailored to startups and growing companies, aligning legal strategy with business goals.
Startup Law
Advising early-stage companies on formation, fundraising, compliance, and scaling, ensuring a strong legal foundation for growth.
IP Strategy
Helping businesses protect and leverage intellectual property assets, aligning IP with business objectives for competitive advantage.
What clients say
“I have engaged with Intellectual Strategies a handful of times over the past couple of years as I began to work on launching a product invention. I spoke with Jeff a couple of times before I got too deep into things to understand the lay of the land when it came to protecting my invention, determining sales channel strategies, and ensuring my manufacturing partners were on board. I also used Intellectual Strategies for my trademark and patent application (thanks, Ross!). Overall, I consider Intellectual Strategies to be an important business partner...I trust them and I rely on them.”
BJ Sorenson
“Our small software company doesn’t have enough contractual work to justify a full time counsel but we get the horsepower of Intellectual Strategies in a financially reasonable manner that provides us the ability to have excellent legal guidance and support. The IS team led by Jeff utilizes their team of legal experts ‘on demand’ to assist us based on the topic and the urgency we need…this flexibility and support is perfect for our business model.Further, the legal guidance and support has been excellent and the team is very communicative with us so that we can plan our milestones accordingly. This helps us advise our own customer/prospects when we’re in negotiations that require contractual back and forth. Keeps the entire business process rolling forward in a very manageable way.”
Steve Bruneau
Vice President, Polaris Aero
Experience
Founder and CEO
Intellectual Strategies
Mar 2019 – Present
Vice President, Legal Affairs
Oscilla Power
Oct 2019 – Present
IP Strategy Counsel*; General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
HZO
Sep 2015 – Present
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business
2016
Juris Doctor
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
2005
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
University of Utah
2000