Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, I represent a good friend who has built a very successful business. He offered me an opportunity to join with him to start a different new business venture together. I met with him and told him that in negotiating or putting together the terms of the venture with him I would not be acting as his counsel and that he should consider seeking independent counsel. The deal we put together is fair and reasonable to my friend, who also told me that he consents to my involvement in the transaction while continuing to represent him in other legal matters. I went ahead with the transaction. Have I done anything unethical?