Real-World Strategic Counsel
Intellectual Property
Your most valuable IP is often the knowledge you keep, not the patent you file. We build trade secret protection programs, handle licensing and IP ownership in employment and contractor agreements, and help you decide when to register and when to hold close.
Artificial Intelligence
AI is moving faster than the law around it. We help clients build and deploy it with clear counsel on data and IP rights, contracts, liability, and the governance regulators increasingly expect.
Digital Assets & Emerging Technologies
Blockchain, tokens and connected devices raise questions the rules haven't fully answered. We help clients structure digital asset activity, work through the regulatory picture, and build new technology on solid legal footing.
Compliance and Governance
Good governance keeps a company out of trouble and lets it move with confidence. We build the policies, controls, and oversight that fit how your business actually runs, and steer you through inquiries when they come.
Transaction Facilitation
We get deals done without manufacturing problems to justify the bill. We structure, draft and negotiate purchases, licenses and partnerships with an operator's eye for what matters once the deal closes.
Business Advisement
Ongoing counsel from someone who has run companies. We advise founders and operating companies on structure, governance, contracts and growth, where the legal decision and the business decision can't be separated.
Counsel From Someone Who Has Been the Client
Frank D. Prestia has built and run businesses for nearly 35 years. He co-founded the company behind WaxMelters and designed thermal systems now running at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.
That changes the questions we ask. Not just what the law permits, but what protects the asset, what preserves leverage, and what the company can actually carry out.
FDP Law is generally retained where the value lies in judgment, structure and strategy, not routine legal process.
running businesses
thermal systems he designed
site he built
Washington State