The General Counsel solution

Add a trusted colleague who takes care of business, simplifies legal issues, and solves complex problems

Monde Law offers fractional and general counsel services tailored for startups and emerging companies.

• The answer is almost always "yes, and" to solve business legal problems. Not "no, but"

• In-house / outside general counsel can become an embdded resource on the company's internal network, guiding employees and execs through legal complexities with expertise and care.

• We provide a dedicated attorney experienced in your industry who can get up to speed impressively quickly and start working as if they have been there for years.

25 years

Startup Legal Experience

In Total Transactions as Counsel

$1.3 B+

Most Frequently Used Model

Fractional General Counsel

• The benefits of in-house attorneys at a cost that works for new and scaling companies.

• Allows startups to build and own their legal work and infrastructure rather than renting the results for every legal issue that arises.

• General Counsel services are provided through different based on the needs of the client.

Short Term / Limited Models

• Interim General Counsel (Able to assist with permanent GC search)

• Counsel for Due Diligence (for sellers, buyers, investors or funded startups)

• Special Counsel for a single major legal issue, or single area of law

• Crisis Management Counsel or Advisor

• Legal Support for a specific business function. Department of Division Counsel.

Additional Resources Incorporated in Each Model

• Industry-specific GCs available through referral network, if Monde Law cannot handle directly.

• Bench of additional attorneys available if expertise is not available with Fractional GC

• Tech stack management for contracts, filings, board documents

• Open standing “Office Hours” for employees, management, founders, boards

• IP management. With expanded protection for trade secrets, media, alternative forms of intellectual property

• Corporate Governance

• Corporate Secretary services /Board Liaison [directly or supporting Board member]

• Finance and Fundraising preparation for due diligence on compnay

• Board of Directors training and updates

General Counsel Models and Services

Models for Groups/ Portfolios of Companies

• Group General Counsel

• Legal Advisor to Portfolio Companies

• Special Counsel to Board of Directors

• Personal Counsel to CEO or Founder(s)

• Corporate Group GC services for investor groups, venture studios, venture funds, private equity, incubators and accelerators.

• Shared expense GC services for multiple companiesWrite your text here...

Monde Law launches in May 2025.

★★★★★

Monde Law provides the traditional excellence and services expected from an experienced General Counsel.

• Knowledge of Client’s Business and Objectives.

• Monde Law GC is able to answer very high percentage (normally over 90%)of legal issues based on experience without massive research projects.Work with Exec Team to design long term legal strategy.

• Communicate through Company’s Internal Channels (ex. Company Email, Messaging apps [not Signal!] Meeting Chats, Slack) and contribute to workflow systems (Salesforce, Oracle, Asana, Monday, etc).

• Build Out Legal Roadmap, Playbooks, Contract Templates, Checklists.

• GC build out allows company to use its own form contracts as often as possible rather than redlining all vendor and commercial agreements

• Develop the company’s standards for contracts, negotiations, policies.

• Create the company’s own “way we do this” for legal negotiations

• Assess and manage cybersecurity and data privacy legal requirements.

• Provide full Employment Law coverage for hirings, terminations, benefits, reviews, complaints, pre-action advice on employee matters.

• Manage expert outside counsel engagements and make the Client Company an “educated consumer of legal services”.

• The Client Company may elect to use the identity of the General Counsel for public communications, team lists, response letters, negotiations.

• Or keep the existence of a dedicated GC internal and non-public.

• Assist with litigation management or manages directly

• Advise on terms and conditions of fundraising.

Lesser-known GC work beyond traditional

• Legal and Enterprise Risk Assessments, tailored roadmaps, checklist and reviews.

• Help selecting the right corporate entities.

• Building a legal infrastructure that you own instead of rent.

• Set up the company correctly at a very early stage and avoid the headaches of re-creating corporate history.

• Do Corporate Housekeeping before targeting investors.

• Build Corporate Governance and Board structure for scalability.

• Support creation of advisory boards, board committees, shareholder agreements, designated board officers.

• Outside Counsel Management, including spend management.

• Legal Tech management to replace some general counsel functions with efficient tech solutions.

• Coordination with your financial, go-to-market, tech, growth and other advisors.

• On call services and dedicated office hours for drop in.

• Training Board members, new hires, employees across the board, management, individual founders or CEO.

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