Fully Integrated • On-Demand • Fractional or Interim:
Commercial, Privacy, and Product Counsel ⚖️
THE TECH ESQ.℠ is the premier legal consultancy founded and operated by Karachi Achilihu — a tech-savvy attorney passionate about technology transactions. Karachi combines her commercial, privacy, and product counseling experience to provide legal support to global companies at the forefront of tech.
After graduating from law school, Karachi started her legal career as an associate at Venable, where she advised middle-market clients across various industries during a range of corporate deals. Karachi later transitioned to Goodwin Procter, advising technology-focused startups to public companies and investors on corporate governance, venture capital, M&A, capital markets, and other strategic corporate transactions up to $28.5M.
After spending 2½ years practicing at Am Law 100 firms, Karachi began her in-house counsel journey at Meta Platforms, where she managed content, production, and platform deals across Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and Reality Labs as commercial counsel. Building upon her Big Tech + Big Law experiences, Karachi launched her legal consultancy to provide fully integrated, on-demand, in-house counseling to clients of all sizes — from SMBs to Fortune enterprises — during technology transactions as THE TECH ESQ.℠