Clearlake Law Fractional GC

Sector-specialist
fractional counsel

Your flexible in-house lawyer

Great in-house lawyers are critical to the health and growth of their organisations.

Our lawyers have many years experience operating as senior in-house counsel and they are specialists in their chosen industry sectors.

We work in fully flexible arrangements providing support and advice to suit each client’s specific needs and budget.

We work under English law here in the UK and we operate globally under our international counsel model.

We deliver faster, higher quality and better value outcomes at every turn.

Our service models

Fractional General Counsel

For organisations with no in-house legal team, we provide a senior, sector-specialist general counsel service, available to act as your first port of call for all legal matters, either in the UK, across Europe or globally, proactively monitoring your business and driving your projects forward.

Embedded Legal Counsel

For larger and international enterprises, we work alongside your in-house legal function to provide additional strands of experience, a local legal presence in the UK or Europe and additional bandwidth during busy periods.

Managed Services

Our lawyers are plugged into our contract acceleration platform. We are available to pick up the technical negotiation and drafting elements of your bespoke contracting workflows, allowing us to outsource entire contracting processes, end-to-end, as a fully managed service.

Our areas of expertise

Sector focus

Fintech

We have significant experience operating in the financial technology space, in relation to drafting and negotiating SaaS, PaaS, EULA and clickwrap terms with customers and suppliers, negotiating complex business process outsourcing and insourcing agreements, advising on financial services regulation relating to payments and cryptocurrencies, data protection and emerging AI regulations and reviewing intellectual property arrangements both internally and along tech supply chains.

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Software and platforms

We specialise in representing developers, suppliers and customers in the information technology sector. We work with the full lifecycle of businesses from enterprise-grade organisations through to fast-growing scale-ups, in particular in relation to drafting and negotiating SaaS, PaaS, EULA and clickwrap terms with customers and suppliers, negotiating complex business process outsourcing and insourcing agreements, advising on related data and emerging AI regulation and reviewing intellectual property arrangements both internally and along tech supply chains.

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Automotive

We provide strategic legal advice and negotiation support to suppliers at various tier levels in the international automotive industry with a particular focus on supply chain management and commercial relationships, the procurement and supply of automotive technologies, joint ventures and reorganisation and restructuring projects.

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Advanced manufacturing

We provide strategic legal advice and negotiation support to advanced manufacturing and engineering organisations with a particular focus on supply chain management and commercial relationships, the procurement and supply of new manufacturing technologies, joint ventures and reorganisation and restructuring projects.

Technical expertise

Commercial relationships

We have significant experience across the full lifecycle of commercial relationships, relating particularly to the supply and procurement of technologies and related services.

Our core value-add is in negotiating bespoke SaaS and PaaS agreements, complex business process outsourcing arrangements and developing new approaches for the supply of novel or bespoke technology solutions.

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Corporate and finance matters

We have significant experience advising on corporate structures, group re-organisations and company secretarial issues here in the UK. We provide point of contact support to oversee M&A and corporate finance activities, sometimes working hand in glove with specialist law firms.

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Regulatory advice

We advise our clients in relation to their rights and obligations under financial services, data protection and artificial intelligence regulations.

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Intellectual property licensing

We advise our clients in relation to all manner of intellectual property matters, with a particular focus on software copyright and licensing, and in the context of the flow of intellectual property rights along technology supply chains.

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Data protection & privacy matters

We advise businesses in relation to the management and flow of the information and personal data under their control, helping to analyse and mitigate risk at each step.

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