Services · Fractional General Counsel
I build the legal architecture your company runs on.
Contracts, financing, governance, regulation — the legal and decision structure of your company. Built from the inside, in your language, and it stays with you.
The outcome
You become able to decide, ready to be examined, and stable in value.
What you get — and what's different about it
More than an opinion: a working system for your question.
Built from the inside, in your language, and it stays with you — as a tool and as capability. Your freedom to operate grows with every mandate.
From the inside
I work like your own legal department — embedded, in your processes, accountable for the result.
Fitted to your processes
My solutions run inside your own system and grow with it.
In your language
Written for management, engineering, legal, finance and product — every role understands and uses it at once.
The five most common situations — as fixed formats
For the recurring situations there are productised formats with a clear process and a clear result.
I · Investment Readiness
You're preparing a financing round.
The numbers hold. But the questions that come up in due diligence are aimed at your structure, your governance, your regulatory maturity.
Pre-Series A to Series C · pre-investment
Talk to me about this →II · Exit Readiness Sprint
You're heading into an exit.
The buyer isn't looking for strengths. They're looking for deductions. The question is whether you find them first — or whether they surface in the data room.
6–18 months before exit · PE portfolios · deal preparation
Talk to me about this →III · Regulation in a Box
DORA, NIS2, AI Act — you know it applies to you.
But no one can say where exactly. Three regulations, three parallel projects, no whole picture. The question is whether you solve it as a question of architecture — or as an emergency.
Tech companies · SaaS · regulated sectors
Talk to me about this →IV · Governance & Architecture
Your governance looks good — on paper.
But the audit reveals what didn't work in daily operations. Roles overlap, decisions stall, and no one can explain who decided what, and why.
Growth under regulation · pre-audit · pre-scaling
Talk to me about this →V · Catalyst & Decision
Some situations need more than structuring.
The decision has been stuck for weeks. Everyone sees the same picture — and no one sees the blind spot in it. An independent function that sees what the system overlooks, and gives the impulse that's missing.
Special situations · decision phases
Talk to me about this →The full range
The fixed formats are the most common way in. The field is larger.
Regulation is one field among several. Across a company's life cycle I build the order it runs on — from the first contract through the financing round to restructuring, in German and Swiss law. What connects these fields is the same core: recognising the order a complex situation is missing, and building it with you.
Contracts & contract architecture
Whole contract systems instead of single documents — framework agreements, distribution (B2B/B2B2B), OEM and supply chain, licences, executive and managing-director contracts. With a purpose per clause and a negotiation playbook.
A typical situation: a vendor moves distribution from an integrator model to direct sales — an eleven-part contract package, re-architected, including what stays in the negotiation and what can be given away cheaply.
Corporate, M&A & transactions
Shareholding structures, shareholders' agreements, cap table, legal due diligence, data rooms, mergers, financing — from the structure to the signature-ready contract.
A typical situation: a financing round — the shareholder structure reconstructed from the commercial register, cap table and data room set up, transaction documents brought onto a checklist.
Structure, business model & market entry
The switch-setting before the contracts: choice of model and legal form, testing the business model, market entry — cross-border too, with export control and enforceability in a foreign jurisdiction.
A typical situation: a founder enters a new foreign market — first the load-bearing questions (employment law, export control, supply chain), then four interlocking contracts.
Regulation & data
DORA, NIS2, AI Act, data protection, external data protection officer — made tangible and translated into control. One field among many.
A typical situation: three regulations, three parallel projects — solved as one architecture instead of an emergency, with an evidence package for the audit.
Governance, work & the person
Governance that grows with you; leadership and separation situations (contracts, termination, references, transfer of business); and the human side — negotiation choreographed, transitions accompanied, capacity to act handed back.
A typical situation: a separation at the top — settlement negotiated, reference built, and the person's next step prepared along with it.
Restructuring & cross-border
When it gets tight or the border is crossed: restructuring, security interests, composition moratorium; relocation and cross-border pension and tax questions — under German and Swiss law.
A typical situation: a relocation to Switzerland — a cockpit of pension, health insurance, property purchase, customs and tax, operable in a single document.
Tell me what's on your desk — I'll tell you which field it is and how we start.
However different the situations, the core is the same.
Contract, financing, merger, regulation or market entry — it's always the same question: does the order your company runs on hold when pressure comes onto it? And do you get a system in hand that you can operate yourself afterwards?
That's why I always work the same way.
Always in the same order: first recognise where you stand, then understand what's behind it — and only then decide and steer. I reconstruct your structure from the perspective of whoever will examine it, and test it under load. Investor, buyer, auditor, the next generation — the questions are predictable. The answers have to be too.
Make tomorrow's version of this problem look different.
A 30-minute conversation to work out where we'd start — direct, confidential, and useful even if you never come back.
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