General Counsel · Corporate Secretary · Board Advisor
Over twenty-five years at the intersection of law, capital, biotech, and software. I help founders, boards, and investors make consequential decisions and build the professional infrastructure to execute them.
EvanElle, P.C.: a selective, fractional general counsel practice for venture-backed life sciences and technology companies.
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Most advisors give you one perspective. A lawyer sees the legal risk. A banker sees the deal. A consultant sees the process. Raj Kumar gives you all three simultaneously, because for 25 years, he has operated at the intersection where law, capital, biotech, and software collide.
Trained at Genentech, seasoned through co-founding two operating companies, and tested by a decade of high-stakes advisory work, Raj brings something rare to every engagement: the ability to build and direct the full professional team a complex situation requires. Big Law partners, investment bankers, CPAs, regulatory specialists, each with their own institutional interests. Getting them aligned toward a single client outcome is a discipline in its own right.
His clients have called it a virtual large firm. A better description is senior judgment without institutional overhead. The right specialists, briefed precisely, moving in the same direction.
As General Counsel (formal title: Chief Legal Officer) and Board-appointed Corporate Secretary of a clinical-stage oncology company (2020–2026), Raj was relied upon in all Board meetings, including Executive Sessions: governance access rare for a non-director officer, built over six years at the table. When most doors were closed, he structured and negotiated a milestone-tranched convertible-note financing for the company, opposite independent counsel: a capital problem solved by judgment, not a template. He advises on a selective basis: boards, capital allocators, and founders navigating something that requires more than one lens.
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Thinking
The best way to understand how Raj works is to read how he thinks. These pieces are working frameworks applied to real problems in capital allocation, governance, and institutional decision-making.
Services
If you're navigating a financing, a governance crisis, a board transition, or a transaction that requires more than one professional discipline, let's talk. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.