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Senior legal support, shaped around what you actually need.

There is no single right way to bring senior legal experience into a business. You may need an embedded GC, someone to take the chair for a while, a senior advisor alongside you — or simply an experienced pair of eyes on a question or contract.

Either way, the starting point is the same: understand what you are trying to achieve, assess what really matters — legally, commercially and practically — and decide what to do next.

Fractional General Counsel

Your GC — without the full-time hire.

You’re scaling fast. You need legal support that keeps up — that’s what we do.

Keeping up means being part of the business — anticipating what is coming, helping the business make better decisions and removing unnecessary friction before it becomes a bottleneck.

As a business grows, legal stops being a series of isolated questions. Contracts, people, governance, investors, international expansion and risk increasingly become part of everyday decision-making. You need someone who knows the business, understands the context and is there often enough to see what is coming — not just respond when something has already landed.

A Fractional General Counsel brings that senior legal leadership into the business without creating a full-time role. Martijn works as part of the team, alongside founders and executives, taking ownership where needed and building the legal structure, judgement and rhythm the business needs as it grows.

Interim General Counsel

Stepping in when you need a GC now.

Sometimes the role simply needs someone in it.

Experienced legal leadership during transition, change or unexpected gaps. Taking ownership of the function and keeping things moving.

A General Counsel leaves or is temporarily unavailable. A replacement has not yet been found or cannot start immediately. Or the business is going through a transition, transaction or period of change that needs experienced legal leadership.

An Interim General Counsel steps into the role, takes responsibility for the legal function and keeps the business moving — without treating the interim period as a holding pattern.

Strategic Legal Advisor

Senior judgement alongside you.

Not every question needs a General Counsel. Sometimes you simply need someone experienced alongside you.

A trusted sounding board for founders, executives, boards and legal leaders who want an experienced view on important decisions — without needing another permanent role.

Founders, executives and boards regularly face decisions that are partly legal, but rarely only legal. There may be commercial considerations, risk, governance, people, timing or simply a difficult judgement call to make.

As Strategic Legal Advisor, Martijn provides an independent senior perspective: understanding what you are trying to achieve, assessing what really matters and giving you a clear view on the way forward.

Legal as a Business Enabler

From “No” to “Go”.

Legal should help the business move forward, not stop the conversation.

Sometimes the proposed route does not work. The job is then not simply to explain why — it is to understand what the business is trying to achieve and help find a workable way to get there.

The answer may be a different route, a different structure or a different solution. But “no” should never be where the conversation ends.

Focused Legal Support

Sometimes you just need something sorted.

Not every legal need calls for an ongoing role or advisory relationship. Sometimes there is a contract to review, a question that needs answering, an existing legal set-up that could use a fresh look — or simply something that needs putting in place.

Focused Legal Support gives you direct access to senior GC experience for a defined piece of work, without needing a broader engagement.

Review

Sometimes you just need a senior pair of eyes.

A contract you are about to sign or negotiate. A clause or proposal you are unsure about. A corporate, governance or commercial question. Or simply a situation where you want a second senior view before deciding.

What matters? What is the risk? What would you do?

Dandelion Contract Check

A focused senior review of an agreement before you sign or negotiate it — identifying the key risks, the points worth negotiating and the practical implications for the business.

Health Check

Already have the basics in place?

Dandelion can review your existing standard contracts, terms and other core legal documents as a set — looking at whether they are consistent, fit for purpose and still match the way your business actually operates.

What works? What needs attention? What is worth changing?

You get a concise assessment of what works, what needs attention and what is worth changing. Where useful, Dandelion can then update, simplify or improve the documents themselves.

Build

Need the foundations put in place?

Dandelion can build a practical set of core legal documents around the way your business actually works — such as general terms, business or customer terms and standard commercial agreements — combining proven approaches with more than 30 years of practical experience.

The objective is not a shelf full of legal documents.

It is a usable set of standards that makes everyday business easier, faster and more consistent.

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