Founder Biography
Pooja Sinha
Founder & Cross-Border Counsel
The part no one tells you about Big Law
Leaving a top-tier international firm isn’t usually part of the script.
But after years of billion-dollar transactions and all-nighters, Pooja realised something quietly unsettling:
She wasn’t bored of the law.
She was bored of the sameness — the deals that felt like déjà vu.
She almost left the profession entirely…until she began working with business founders whose challenges didn’t come with a handbook. Cross-border growth, new technology, unfamiliar markets — nothing was copy-paste anymore. That’s when the law stopped feeling routine and started feeling useful, because the work was driven by solving real problems, not just producing documents.
That shift — and a relocation to Dubai — led her into the work that keeps her engaged now:
helping companies navigate the Far East ⇄ Middle East corridor, where no two deals look alike and the people behind them couldn’t be more different.
Alongside her cross-border focus, Pooja developed a deep interest in Web3 and digital asset models, advising emerging tech businesses through LawSentry — a consulting platform she created to support fast-moving founders operating at the edge of new regulation.
Stirring the “Qi” into the “Deal Chai”
Cross-border deals don’t move in straight lines.
Some moments demand caffeine — fast drafting, fast signatures, fast decisions. Other moments demand calm — stepping back, simplifying, keeping the business protected without slowing it down.
Pooja brings both: urgency when timing is everything, and fluidity when the smartest move is not to overcomplicate. She reviews every contract with both lenses — legal and operational — so founders are never over-lawyered or under-protected.
Because in this region:
sometimes a deal needs caffeine — and sometimes it needs calm.
Energy when needed. Flow when it matters.
The perfect blend of Chai and Qi.
→Fun fact: She almost named the firm ChaiQi Legal!
From First-Time Founders to Global Boardrooms
Pooja has worked across every kind of business scenario and with every kind of stakeholder :
• C-suite leaders in global banks where a wrong comma can cost millions
• Founders navigating their first fundraise, product launch, or IPO
• “David vs Goliath” contract negotiations where leverage is uneven
• Scale-ups managing their first multimillion-dollar customer dispute or employee lawsuit
And she has supported companies across the entire lifecycle:
entity formation, public and private fundraises, vendor contracting, licensing and regulatory reviews, crisis response, dispute strategy, and even full-blown debt restructurings when things got tough.
She didn’t map a career to showcase range — the range came from going where clients needed real judgment.
And what she learned along the way is simple:
Business isn’t linear.
So legal support can’t be either.→ The point isn’t that she’s seen it all — just that she’s seen enough to know what matters.
A lawyer for both the deal and the business behind it
Pooja works where most legal roles split in two — the high-stakes deal table and the everyday reality inside the company.
Some days, as deal counsel, she’s directing all the moving parts of a multi-jurisdictional transaction — aligning counterparties, closing drafting gaps under pressure, and making sure the signing actually happens on the day it’s meant to.
Other days, she’s inside the business as fractional counsel — helping founders decide what’s worth pushing and what risks are acceptable. She often provides “burst capacity” or acts as a strategic sounding board to in-house lawyers who need senior support on-demand.
It is law that adapts to context — Clients often say the value is this: she sees the whole picture without losing sight of the tiny detail that could break it.
→Because the business must live with the documents long after the deal is done..
Why Sandbridge?
Not Big Law for the sake of prestige.
Not startup law guessing its way through risk.
Just grounded, commercial judgment —
where business actually gets done.
Can We Support Scale? Absolutely.
Sandbridge Legal is built for founder-speed work, but our delivery model scales when needed.
Sandbridge Legal partners with NOVA8 - a Tier 1 Chambers-ranked ALSP that integrates class-leading legal technology with top-tier talent - to support larger, more complex transactions and deliver documentation faster, without compromising on quality.