Audrey K. Wessel

Audrey K. Wessel is a business lawyer with Gutwein Law in Indianapolis who advises startups, emerging growth companies, technology businesses, and middle-market companies. Her practice includes private equity and venture capital, business law, intellectual property, and data privacy. She supports companies from formation and early fundraising through scaling, strategic transactions, and exit, while serving as outside counsel to founders and leadership teams.

Audrey earned a J.D. from Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law in 2015 and a B.S. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2012. Her legal and scientific background supports work involving technology businesses, intellectual property, commercial agreements, and data-driven products. That combination helps her evaluate legal issues that arise when companies develop proprietary technology, seek investment, and enter complex commercial relationships.

Audrey regularly represents startups and growth-stage companies in seed, Series Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C financings. She advises on term sheets, SAFE and convertible note financings, equity incentive plans, private securities offerings, corporate governance, and commercial contracts. Her technology work includes software licensing, development and commercialization agreements, IP strategy, data licensing, online terms, and privacy policies.

Audrey K. Wessel is admitted in Indiana and Illinois and works with companies navigating rapid growth and changing legal needs. Her practice brings together financing, corporate governance, intellectual property, commercial contracting, and privacy counseling. By addressing these issues within the broader business lifecycle, she helps founders and company leaders build legal structures that support investment, operations, technology development, and strategic transactions. She is admitted to practice in Indiana and Illinois.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Gutwein Law
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association
• Member, Illinois State Bar Association

Licensed State

• Indiana
• Illinois

Education

• Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Purdue University
  Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry

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