Fractional General Counsel for SaaS, AI & Tech Businesses

You’ve got great people, brilliant subject matter experts and a great product.

But:

  • Your business has got to the stage where it needs regular legal input, but you can’t afford a high quality FTE, and law firms are just not pragmatic enough.

  • Your business is repeatedly hit by ad hoc legal problems. Responding to them is soaking up management time, but there isn’t an overall plan or an approach to preventing the problems occurring in the first place.

  • AI is accelerating the rate of tech change, and it’s being accompanied by increasing amounts of legislation and regulation. But no-one in your business is keeping an eye on how incoming legislation is going to impact you, nor on the opportunities it might open up for you.

  • Every time you ask a legal question, you get an answer that is unclear, hedged (on the one hand, on the other hand), and not pragmatic.

  • Your company’s contracts aren’t being properly addressed. Sales volumes are lower than they should be (contracting takes too long), money is being left on the table, and there’s too much friction involved in getting contracts to closure.

  • Your spend on external lawyers is out of control. The money is going out, but you just don’t feel you are getting money’s worth in return.

  • You have the uncomfortable feeling that your business’ legal issues are not being properly addressed and that, at some point in the future, this is going to come back and bite you.

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BUT WHAT IF…

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You can work with a high-quality Fractional GC at a fraction of the FTE cost.

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You’ve got someone on your side - a real business partner - acting as your General Council who understands your issues from a legal as well as a commercial point of view. Their insights and analysis will help you make better decisions.

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You benefit from a strategic, systemic approach to legal issues, the hallmark of an experienced Fractional GC. No more reinventing the wheel each time.

Quick-Response

Your company’s contracts are closed in substantially less time. Sales per quarter go up, speed to cash increases, cost of sale is reduced, and customer friction is minimised through part-time General Counsel support embedded in your workflow.

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You maximise the bang you get for your buck. Applying the 80/20 rule, 80% of the value of an FTE GC is produced in 20% of their time. Use a Fractional GC, focus on the key issues, and you will get that 80% of value but pay only 20%.

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You are responded to quickly. You aren’t kept hanging about.

More Time

The legals of your company are now in safe hands. You have one less thing to worry about. A Fractional GC handles the complexity so you can win back time and focus on growing the business.

Finally, you are working with someone who has your back.

Sound good?

Salvation lies within

  • "I had an upcoming contract negotiation for an Agile development with a large European bank. Mark was recommended to me by a colleague who had worked with him previously, and I have to say that Mark more than lived up to his reputation. He was quick, responsive, knew his stuff and was an effective negotiator. In short, he was ridiculously valuable."

    — Lee Goodenough, Managing Director, VASS UK&I 


  • "His ability to blend technology, law, business and innovation is unique. We were lucky to have him on the team.

    — Abhay Chrungoo, CEO, Bugni Labs

  • "We instructed Clearview Legal after struggling with expensive lawyers from a major UK firm. Working closely with our commercial team, Mark immediately restructured and simplified customer and supplier contracting for our division’s most strategic and profitable deals. We now have a highly cost-effective service from Clearview Legal that is flexible and high-value, with approximately 25 stable long-term contracts in place. Mark is commercial, quick, and easy to work with. I recommend him."

    — Nigel Muirhead, Products Director, Agilisys

  • "Mark is an excellent commercial lawyer who is very user-friendly. He is quick to spot the business issues in a deal, adds value very fast and suggests solutions. Unlike most lawyers, there is no mumbo-jumbo or gobbledegook in his opinions."

    - Andrew Mosely, Consulting Director, Metapraxis