PERSON: Coco Soodek

Coco is an American business expert, lawyer and media personality who helps people transform into successful entrepreneurs. She hosts her own nationally syndicated radio show, “Coco Soodek Live,” on the Lifestyle Talk Radio Network, and also has a show, “Profit and Laws with Coco Soodek,” on the Whatever it Takes Network. Coco has worked in “Big Law” for 18 years (5 as a Partner), helping both industrial and creative entrepreneurs make contracts, things and money. Coco frequently writes about business, law and entrepreneurship. Coco has packaged holdable, understandable business guidance into her bestselling book Birth to Buyout: Law for the Life Cycle of Your Business. Additionally, she leads a day-long seminar – Birth to Buyout: The Business Bootcamp – based on her book. Coco hosts her own nationally syndicated radio show, “Coco Soodek Live,” on the Lifestyle Talk Radio Network, a terrestrial radio network reaching over 20 major markets. She also has a show, “Profit and Laws with Coco Soodek,” on the Whatever it Takes Network. On these programs, Coco covers a mix of business, entrepreneurship, politics and law, and takes numerous callers seeking guidance for their small businesses. These shows feature Coco’s legal and business expertise as she tackles her callers’ and guests’ most pressing business questions, and she comments on the hottest news items of the day. You can also get podcasts of Coco Soodek Live here, iTunes and other major podcast sites. Coco Soodek has worked in “Big Law” for 18 years (5 as a Partner), helping both industrial and creative entrepreneurs make contracts, things and money. As an art lawyer, Coco leads negotiations, deals and sometimes disputes with some of the most formidable governments, auction houses, dealers, collectors and artists around the world (this work is enormously satisfying and fun.). As a corporate lawyer, Coco serves as outside general counsel to a wide variety of companies, leading them through both business deals and broad risk management. Her clients do business around the world in a variety of industries including:
Copyright & trademark centered companies in art, digital media, entertainment, advertising, ecommerce and stage, trade and rock shows
Industrial companies in manufacturing, trucking, warehousing and renewable energy
Consumer product companies in apparel, consumer electronics, restaurants, general retail and personal firearms. Coco frequently writes about business, law and entrepreneurship. Coco has packaged holdable, understandable business guidance into her bestselling book Birth to Buyout: Law for the Life Cycle of Your Business (2011). In Birth to Buyout, Coco wraps clear-eyed lessons on business, risk containment and law inside a fictional story about two emerging entrepreneurs named Hap and Hazard, and their corporate lawyer, Gravity. Birth to Buyout: Law for the Life Cycle of Your Business v. 2 (2013) was released in Spring, 2013.