A general counsel's judgment, without the full-time hire.

There is a stage where a company's legal needs stop being occasional and start being continuous, and the old model of emailing a law firm whenever something comes up no longer fits. The contracts pile up, the compliance questions get more frequent, and decisions that used to be simple now carry real exposure. What the company needs at that point is not more outside counsel, it is a general counsel, and that is the function I provide without the cost and commitment of a full-time hire.

What this actually means

As your fractional general counsel I own the legal function. I draft, review, and negotiate the commercial agreements that run the business, I build the contract templates and playbooks that let your team move faster without losing consistency, and I stand up compliance and governance frameworks that fit how you actually operate. When a decision carries risk, I am the steady judgment in the room. The point is continuity: I learn your business once and apply that understanding to everything that follows, instead of coming up to speed from scratch on every matter.

Built from the in-house seat

I have done this work from the inside. For eight years I served as in-house counsel to a global manufacturer, where I led legal strategy and contract management across international markets, negotiated high-value international licensing, development, and manufacturing agreements, and built the templates and playbooks that reduced the company's dependence on outside counsel. The contract lifecycle system I implemented cut contract creation time in half. I know what the general counsel role demands because I have held it, and I know how to build the function so it serves the business rather than slowing it down.

An operator, not only an advisor

Alongside the in-house work, I co-founded and ran an energy venture for eight years, responsible for its legal, regulatory, and environmental compliance as an owner. That experience shapes how I advise. I have sat with the consequences of the decisions, not just the analysis of them, and I tend to give clients the answer an operator needs rather than the exhaustive memo a litigator might want. I also structure businesses from the ground up, advising founders on entity formation, governance, and the tax implications of how they organize.

Who this is for

Fractional general counsel work fits growing companies, founder-led businesses, and family-owned operations that need legal judgment as an ongoing part of the team. Manufacturing and energy are my home ground, and the work applies wherever a company has reached the point of needing a general counsel's continuity without a full-time seat. For multilingual matters I review documents in English, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.