A named senior lawyer who becomes a familiar part of your business, backed by the expertise of Kingsley Wood. Legal support built around your priorities, with a clear scope and agreed fees.
The Kingsley Wood Approach
A named general counsel who understands your priorities and coordinates your legal work.
Specialist advice brought together through your lead lawyer when your business needs it.
Defined scope, agreed capacity and fees, with a plan for your ongoing support.
Your business makes decisions every day that carry legal consequences. Having someone who understands the wider picture helps you make those decisions with greater clarity.
Kingsley Wood’s outsourced general counsel service gives you a named senior lawyer who works with your leadership team and coordinates legal support across your business. They get to know your commercial priorities, the way you operate and the risks that deserve attention.
We agree a programme of support around your requirements, from everyday contracts and employment questions to governance, risk and planning for growth. When a matter calls for deeper expertise, your general counsel brings in the appropriate Kingsley Wood specialists.
The result is a continuing legal relationship that helps you organise your workload, plan ahead and keep advice connected to your business objectives.
Work directly with an experienced lawyer who takes the time to understand what matters to your businesses.
Draw on expertise across corporate, commercial, employment, real estate and disputes through one lead contact.
Agree the scope, capacity and fees at the outset, with a clear process for approving additional work.
From the agreements you sign to the decisions that shape your future, your general counsel helps put the right advice in place.
Keep your business moving.
Draft, review and negotiate customer and supplier agreements, terms of business, confidentiality agreements and strategic partnerships. Build practical templates and agreed negotiating positions for the contracts your team uses most.
Support the people decisions.
Get advice on employment contracts, workplace policies, day-to-day HR questions and changes within your workforce. Your general counsel coordinates employment specialist input when a matter needs it.
See the priorities clearly.
Identify legal risks, organise key policies and support governance across your business. Depending on your agreed service, we can help maintain a legal risk register and prepare clear updates for your leadership team.
Protect what you are building.
Navigate data protection questions, technology contracts and the commercial use of intellectual property. Bring legal input into decisions about suppliers, licensing and new systems, with specialist advice where required.
Plan the next step.
Involve your legal adviser early when considering investment, new markets, a restructure or an acquisition. Your general counsel can help identify the work needed and coordinate a separately scoped transaction with the right specialists.
Address issues early.
Understand your position when a commercial relationship becomes difficult or a property issue arises. Your general counsel can coordinate early advice and specialist support; litigation and property transactions are scoped separately.
Your service is tailored to an agreed scope. Specialist matters and major projects may require separate instructions and fees.
Legal work is becoming more frequent and complex, and you want a senior adviser who can help organise it.
You need regular input for the management team and a clearer view of legal priorities and spend.
You want additional capacity, cover or a lawyer to take responsibility for an agreed stream of work.
Start with the way your business works. We will discuss the scope and capacity you need, then prepare a proposal with clear fees and service arrangements.
Essential
For businesses seeking a regular legal contact and a more organised approach to recurring legal work.
Core
For growing businesses that need an ongoing legal function working alongside their leadership team.
Enterprise
For established, multi-entity or investor-backed businesses needing broader strategic support.
Flex
For businesses with seasonal workloads or a defined need for legal capacity over an agreed period.
Explore the details, or speak to us about your business.
An outsourced general counsel is a senior external lawyer who provides an ongoing point of contact for your business. They develop an understanding of your operations and priorities, help manage legal work and coordinate specialist advice. You may also see this described as fractional general counsel or virtual general counsel.
The relationship is organised around your continuing legal needs, with an agreed work programme and a lawyer who builds knowledge of your business over time. You can still instruct Kingsley Wood on individual matters; this service adds continuity, planning and coordination across the agreed scope.
Yes. The service can be shaped to support an existing general counsel or legal team, provide additional capacity or coordinate an agreed area of work. We will establish responsibilities and working arrangements with your team at the outset.
Your written proposal will set out the included work, capacity, reporting, service arrangements and fees. The options on this page are a starting point for that discussion. Any applicable VAT and other charges will be explained in your proposal.
We will explain the scope and proposed fees for additional work and seek your agreement before proceeding. Litigation conduct, corporate transactions, property acquisitions, immigration matters and regulatory investigations sit outside the core subscription and require a separate instruction.
Meeting attendance and time with your team can form part of your agreed service. We will discuss whether remote working, on-site time or a combination will best suit your business, and record the arrangements in your proposal.
The term, notice provisions, included capacity and treatment of unused time will be set out in your service agreement. We will explain these arrangements before you decide to proceed.
Tell us about your business, the legal work you manage and what you would like to improve. We will discuss the appropriate level of support and prepare a tailored proposal. Work begins once our checks are complete and the engagement terms are agreed.
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'Kingsley Wood' is a trading name of Sir Kingsley Wood Limited. Sir Kingsley Wood Limited is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA No 812529, and is a company registered in England and Wales, Company No.12858045.
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