There’s a point where ad-hoc advice stops working. We step in as your outsourced GC, run the legal work that keeps growth moving, and give you a single place to send the hard stuff.
When to use this
- You’re fielding NDAs, MSAs and DPAs every week and need someone to own the queue.
- A round is done (or close) and the board expects tidy registers, timely minutes and clean contracts.
- Sales keeps stalling on terms; procurement is pushing heavy paper; marketing is launching faster than policies update.
- You want legal leadership—rhythm, templates, guardrails—without a full-time hire yet.
What’s included
Commercial contracts. Customer MSAs/SaaS terms, vendor agreements, DPAs and SLAs—review, mark-up and negotiation.
Company secretarial. Board packs and minutes, CS01 timing, tidy PSC/registers; cap-table notes before changes.
Privacy & product. UK GDPR advice that matches your stack; cookie/consent changes; quick reviews of new features and campaigns.
People. Employment and consultancy paperwork; covenant and IP questions; clean transitions when roles change.
Playbooks & templates. House positions for sales; simple checklists for ops; living templates that match how you work.
Deal preparation. Data-room lists, gap fixes, and timetable ownership when an investor leans in.
(We’ll flag anything specialist—tax schemes, disputes—and bring it into scope or bring in help.)
Pricing (fixed-fee retainers; bespoke add-ons available)
GC Core — from £1,500 + VAT / month
For steady but lighter flow. Named contact, triage same-day, targeted hours, two live matters at a time.
GC Growth — from £2,750 + VAT / month
For teams selling and hiring in parallel. Wider hours, faster turnarounds, sales playbook creation, monthly board support.
GC Scale — from £4,500 + VAT / month
For busy pipelines and investor scrutiny. Priority queues, weekly rhythm with founders/ops, pre-round clean-up included.
Prefer piece-work? We’ll scope fixed-fee projects against our standard rates (£275/hr partner, £200/hr solicitor) and convert them into a single price you approve—no meter running.
How we deliver
- Onboard. One working session to map risks, contracts in flight, and who signs what.
- Triage & queue. A single intake route (email or shared channel). We label urgency, set expectations, and move.
- Rhythm. Short weekly check-ins; a live tracker your team can see; clear owners for each task.
- Enable. We ship templates, notes your team can reuse, and simple guardrails so fewer questions need a lawyer next time.
Timeline
Onboarding call this week; live inside your workflow right after. First contract turns around within a few working days (faster if truly urgent). Board and company-secretarial cycles set on a calendar so nothing drifts.
Inputs we’ll need
- Your current contracts (top three customer forms, typical vendor paper).
- Policies and public docs (website terms, privacy, DPAs in use).
- Board cadence, cap-table snapshot, and any investor asks.
- Tooling we should see (CRM, procurement process, signature platform).
- A short list of red lines you care about—and where you’ll flex.
FAQs
How many hours do we get—and what if we run hot one month?
We don’t sell minutes; we agree scope and response times. If volume spikes, we’ll flex and then right-size the plan (or spin out a fixed-fee project) so the queue keeps moving without surprise bills.
Will you negotiate with counterparties and show up to calls?
Yes. We mark up paper, get on calls with sales or procurement, and keep notes so the next negotiation starts where the last one ended. You choose whether we sit in the foreground or background.
Can you attend board meetings and handle minutes?
We can. For Growth and Scale plans we prep the legal sections, attend when useful, draft minutes and track actions. Registers and filings are kept in step so diligence is boring—in the best way.
Outsourcing General Counsel Services
Growth creates legal work you can’t ignore: contract queues, board cycles, privacy tweaks, a cap table that keeps changing. An outsourced general counsel steps in and runs that load like part of your team, without you hiring before you’re ready.
We start where the pain is loudest. Sales has NDAs, MSAs and DPAs stacking up; procurement keeps pushing heavy vendor paper; marketing wants to ship a campaign that touches data. We triage, set turnarounds you can plan around, and move the queue. Mark-ups land fast. Calls get joined when it helps. Notes are kept so the next negotiation starts where the last one ended.
Company housekeeping matters just as much. Board packs prepared, minutes drafted, actions chased. Registers match reality. CS01 filed on time. If the filing history looks off, we fix the trail so diligence reads clean. Before a round, we sanity-check the cap table and line up the resolutions you’ll need so signatures don’t stall.
Product doesn’t stop while the paperwork catches up. As your outsourced general counsel, we review features in short bursts, tune cookie/consent changes, and keep privacy promises aligned with what your stack actually does. Engineers get clear asks. Risk is explained in one or two lines, not a wall of text.
This isn’t a meter. It’s a retainer with scope, response times and a single intake route (email or shared channel). We bring playbooks for sales, light templates your team can reuse, and a weekly rhythm that keeps everyone honest. If a month runs hot, we flex and spin out a fixed-fee project rather than let the backlog swallow focus.
Some call it fractional GC, or GC-as-a-service. We call it legal leadership that lets you grow without the hiring leap. The result: faster signatures, calmer board meetings, paperwork that matches the facts—and a founder who isn’t the bottleneck.
