Tracy L. Schimelfenig
Tracy L. Schimelfenig
Strategic legal advisor serving clients across the corporate, nonprofit, and sports industries with counsel grounded in sound judgment, practical execution, and long-range business thinking.
Tracy L. Schimelfenig is a seasoned attorney with 20 years of experience advising clients across the corporate, nonprofit, and sports industries. She is known for her strategic approach, sound judgment, and ability to navigate complex legal and business matters.
Tracy works with businesses, nonprofit organizations, and sports-related clients on a wide range of issues, including corporate governance, transactional matters, compliance, and risk management. She serves as a strategic legal advisor on entity formation and structuring, contract drafting and negotiation, regulatory compliance, overall business operations, and practical risk mitigation tailored to each client’s objectives.
She has significant experience serving as a fractional general counsel, providing business-minded legal guidance shaped by both law firm and in-house roles. Her experience includes serving as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer for a multi-million-dollar nonprofit organization, where she led governance, regulatory compliance, and complex transactions, including real estate development projects.
Her combined background in litigation and transactional work gives her a distinctive ability to identify risks early, structure practical solutions, and help clients move forward with confidence while staying aligned with business goals.
Strategic counsel shaped by corporate, nonprofit, and sports experience
Business-Minded Legal Strategy
Tracy advises with a practical lens, helping clients solve legal issues in ways that support larger business objectives rather than treating legal work in isolation.
Fractional General Counsel Perspective
Her experience as a fractional general counsel and former Chief Legal and Compliance Officer gives her a clear understanding of how legal decisions affect governance, operations, compliance, and growth.
Cross-Sector Depth
With work spanning corporate, nonprofit, and sports-related matters, Tracy helps clients navigate transactions, governance, compliance, and risk with both strategic insight and operational awareness.
Representative areas of legal support
- Entity formation and structuring for businesses and nonprofit organizations
- Contract drafting, negotiation, and transactional support
- Corporate governance and board-level legal guidance
- Regulatory compliance and practical risk management
- Fractional general counsel support for ongoing legal and operational needs
- Business operations counseling aligned with long-term objectives
- Nonprofit governance, compliance, and complex transaction support
- Sports-related legal guidance informed by both academic and personal industry experience
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