Founder & Managing Attorney
Alberto Mujica, Esq.
Building Businesses. Protecting Legacies. Solving Complex Problems.
Alberto helps entrepreneurs, investors, business owners, executives, families, and international clients navigate complex legal decisions with clarity and confidence.
About
An Attorney Who Has Sat on Both Sides of the Table
As the Founder and Managing Attorney of YourLegacy Legal, Alberto helps entrepreneurs, investors, business owners, executives, families, and international clients navigate complex legal decisions with clarity and confidence. His practice spans business law, estate planning, probate, intellectual property, contracts, technology transactions, startup law, international business, and strategic legal advisory services.
What sets Alberto apart is not simply his legal education or experience. It is his uncommon combination of attorney, entrepreneur, technologist, investor advisor, and operator.
Before advising founders, he built businesses himself.
Before counseling startups on raising capital, he evaluated investments and worked alongside venture-backed companies.
Before helping families protect their legacy, he spent years mastering the structures that preserve wealth, ownership, and opportunity across generations and borders.
This multidisciplinary perspective allows Alberto to see legal challenges through the lens of business strategy, risk management, and long-term value creation. He serves as strategic legal counsel to clients ranging from emerging startups and family-owned companies to international businesses and investors, with experience spanning the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and beyond.
The Story
From Building Businesses to Protecting Legacies
Alberto founded ScaleUp Legal with a simple belief: entrepreneurs deserve lawyers who understand entrepreneurship.
Over the years, he advised startup founders on formation, governance, fundraising, intellectual property, contracts, compliance, and scaling operations. He worked with businesses seeking venture capital, navigating due diligence, structuring investments, and protecting their most valuable assets — including venture-backed organizations connected to capital raises exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars. Unlike traditional attorneys who become involved only after problems arise, Alberto partners with clients proactively to identify risks, seize opportunities, and create sustainable growth strategies.
Then the work became personal.
Like many professionals balancing the demands of work, family, and life, Alberto experienced firsthand the challenges that come with helping aging parents navigate important decisions about health, finances, independence, and legacy.
As his parents grew older, he found himself increasingly involved in the conversations that many families eventually face: How do we protect what has been built over a lifetime? How do we preserve dignity and independence? How do we ensure that family members are cared for without creating unnecessary burdens or conflict?
Those experiences transformed his understanding of what legal planning truly means.
Estate planning is not about preparing for death. It is about protecting the people you love during life.
It is about creating certainty during uncertainty, preserving family harmony, and ensuring that the values, opportunities, and assets you worked hard to build continue benefiting future generations.
Through helping his own family navigate these realities, Alberto developed a deeper appreciation for the emotional and practical challenges families face. He witnessed how proactive planning creates peace of mind and how the absence of planning can leave loved ones carrying unnecessary stress during already difficult times.
Today, that perspective shapes every estate planning and probate matter he handles. Whether working with a young family creating their first will, entrepreneurs planning for business succession, adult children caring for aging parents, or individuals seeking to preserve generational wealth, Alberto approaches each matter with both legal precision and personal understanding.
Because behind every trust, will, power of attorney, business succession plan, or probate administration, there is something much more important:
A family. A story. A legacy worth protecting.
The Mission
Protecting More Than Businesses. Protecting Legacies.
The transition from ScaleUp Legal to YourLegacy Legal reflects a broader mission. Legal planning is not only about business growth. It is about protecting families, preserving wealth, creating certainty, and ensuring that every client’s life work continues to benefit the people they care about most.
Alberto helps clients create comprehensive legal strategies that address:
- Wills
- Revocable and irrevocable trusts
- Asset protection planning
- Business succession planning
- Probate administration
- Legacy preservation
- Generational wealth transfer
- Family business continuity
Whether a client is building a startup, operating a closely held business, managing investments, or planning for future generations, the objective remains the same: protect what matters most and create lasting impact.
The principles guiding Alberto’s practice are the same principles that guide YourLegacy Legal:
Integrity. Ownership. Responsibility. Communication. Resourcefulness.
Clients choose Alberto because he:
- Speaks plainly about complex legal issues.
- Prioritizes long-term relationships over transactions.
- Brings an entrepreneurial mindset to legal strategy.
- Understands both business growth and legacy preservation.
- Takes ownership of outcomes and communicates proactively.
- Finds practical solutions where others see obstacles.
Clients are not case numbers. They are founders, families, professionals, investors, and individuals entrusting him with some of the most important decisions of their lives.
At YourLegacy Legal, legal counsel is not a commodity. It is a partnership.
Credentials
Professional Credentials
Bar Admissions
- The Florida Bar — Member in Good Standing (Bar No. 1027712)
Languages
- English — native
- Spanish — native
International Legal Study
- Public International Law — The Hague, Netherlands
- International Copyright and Tax Law — Georgetown, Cayman Islands
- Civil / European Law — Barcelona, Spain
Education
- LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Intellectual Property — University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Juris Doctor — Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law
- Bachelor of Laws — University of Barcelona, Spain
- Master of Science in Management Information Systems and Data Science
- Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems, Cum Laude
Certifications & Professional Development
- Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US)
- VC University — Berkeley Law Venture Capital Program
- Berkeley Law and Technology Program
- Supreme Court Certified Mediator
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Schedule a Consultation with Alberto Mujica
Whether you are building a company, protecting intellectual property, creating an estate plan, navigating probate, planning a succession strategy, or preparing the next chapter of your family’s legacy, Alberto is ready to help.