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Scale-Up General Counsel for Post-Series A Companies
The GC seat, filled — sized to a 30–150 person business, before the full-time hire makes economic sense.
Scale-Up General Counsel is the GC seat filled by an external senior lawyer, sized to a post-Series A business — typically 30 to 150 people, revenue growing fast, board expectations rising, and legal work now too complex to leave to the founder. The angle here is bridge: full-time GC economics only make sense past a certain size, and this is the model that fills the seat until then.
The Scale-Up Legal Profile
Post-Series A, the legal work shifts in shape:
- Customer contracts get larger and more negotiated — enterprise redlines, security schedules, DPAs
- Employment stops being simple — performance issues, restructures, redundancy calculations, fixed-term rules
- Governance tightens — real boards, investor reporting, director duties that matter
- Compliance is now a program, not a checklist — privacy, ACL, industry regulation
- Investor rights are enforceable — Series A term sheets have teeth
What Scale-Up GC Delivers
- Senior lawyer attending board and ELT meetings — the GC voice in the room
- Ownership of the customer-contract stack — playbooks, thresholds, escalation
- Employment and people-legal partnership with your People team
- Investor communications and reporting alignment
- Managing external specialists — M&A, tax, litigation, IP
- Preparation for the Series B raise or the eventual full-time GC hire
The Exit Path
Scale-Up GC is designed to end. When the business genuinely needs a full-time GC — usually around 150+ people, or when the workload is more than three days a week — we help you scope the role, screen candidates, and hand over cleanly. That is a feature, not a threat to the engagement.
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