Legal judgement.
Commercial reality.
Fractional General Counsel and executive legal advisory for ambitious technology, software and SaaS businesses.
You’ve grown.
Your legal function hasn’t.
The signs are usually the same — and usually visible long before anyone names them.
Better use of legal spend.
Better use of management time.
External legal spend
Use specialist law firms for specialist work. A Fractional GC handles the recurring commercial and strategic issues internally, and decides when external specialists genuinely add value.
Executive time
Give legal an owner. CEOs and CFOs shouldn’t spend increasing amounts of management time coordinating contracts, external lawyers, data issues and legal risk.
Senior headcount
Get GC-level capability before you need a full-time GC. Access experienced legal leadership without immediately adding another permanent executive salary and overhead.
Four ways we help.
- Legal strategy & Board advice
- Legal risk ownership
- External counsel management
- SaaS agreements & MSAs
- Commercial negotiations
- Data, privacy & AI matters
- Investment & diligence readiness
- M&A support
- Exit readiness
- Legal operating model
- Playbooks & automation
- Board reporting
Outcomes, not tasks.
Different models.
Different jobs.
Specialist law firms provide specialist expertise. A Fractional GC provides ongoing ownership, continuity and commercial context.
- Senior
- Embedded
- Permanent executive headcount
- Appropriate where legal demand justifies a dedicated role
- Significant recurring employment cost
- Senior
- Embedded alongside management
- Flexible
- Predictable retainer
- Ongoing ownership
- Scales with the needs of the business
- Specialist expertise
- Matter / project based
- External
- Particularly valuable for specialist, contentious or transaction-specific work
- Typically hourly or project pricing
Three stages. One relationship.
Legal capability across the portfolio.
Without adding permanent senior headcount to every company.
Built from the in-house side.
After more than a decade leading legal, risk and governance inside technology businesses, Joseph founded the business around a simple idea: growing companies often need the judgement and experience of a General Counsel long before they need one five days a week.
Questions worth asking.
Often both. Many clients keep specialist external counsel for niche or contentious matters, while their Fractional GC owns overall legal strategy, day-to-day ownership, and the judgement calls in between.
Fractional GC support is normally provided through an agreed monthly retainer, giving predictable access to senior legal capability each month. Defined strategic projects can also be undertaken where an ongoing retainer isn’t the right fit. We’ll price it properly once we understand the business.
It varies by engagement — set at a cadence that matches your risk and pace, and revisited as the business grows.
Not necessarily — the goal is a single senior owner of legal strategy who knows when specialist external expertise is genuinely needed, and manages it on your behalf.
Start a conversation — no pitch, no obligation, just a straight look at where you are and what you need.
Need a GC?
You may not need one five days a week.
Let’s look at where legal sits in your business and whether fractional support makes sense.
Start a confidential conversation →No pitch. No obligation. A straight conversation about what you need.