Fractional General Counsel
Reduce Risk.
Drive Revenue.
Move Deals Forward.
Revenue-forward legal counsel. Embedded in the deal process. Without the cost of building a full-time legal department.
Delta Law works alongside leadership to identify and manage legal risk without losing sight of revenue, speed and commercial outcomes. We support customer, supplier and strategic negotiations with commercially grounded legal advice designed to help the business move forward.
DeSIGNED TO MOVE BUSINESS FORWARD
Built around the teams that drive and protect revenue.
Commercial risk does not sit with Legal alone. It arises where revenue is won, commitments are made, suppliers are engaged and the business decides what risk it is prepared to accept.
Delta Law works alongside leadership, sales, procurement and operations to keep commercial matters moving while ensuring material risks are understood, negotiated and escalated appropriately.
LEADERSHIP
Make clearer risk decisions.
Understand material exposure, commercial trade-offs and the issues that genuinely require executive attention.
SALES
Keep revenue-moving deals moving.
Resolve contract issues without allowing legal review to become an unnecessary bottleneck to revenue.
PROCUREMENT
Protect margin and manage supplier risk.
Evaluate pricing, commitments, liability, performance obligations and negotiating leverage.
OPERATIONS
Make sure the deal can be delivered.
Align contractual commitments with operational reality before the agreement is signed.
Legal identifies the risk. Commercial judgment determines how the business should respond.
THE BUSINESS CASE
Senior legal capability. Greater cost certainty.
As legal complexity increases, businesses often face two imperfect options: continue engaging external counsel on a matter-by-matter basis, with legal spend that can fluctuate significantly, or add senior in-house legal headcount before the workload justifies it.
Fractional General Counsel provides a third model.
50%+
lower annual cost
Compared with senior in-house General Counsel base compensation.
Predictable
Fixed monthly legal spend
A defined monthly retainer gives management greater visibility into legal costs and reduces the uncertainty associated with matter-by-matter billing.
Flexible
Capacity aligned to demand
Access senior legal support without carrying the full cost of permanent legal headcount.
The objective is not simply lower legal spend. It is a more predictable and efficient legal cost structure.
WHAT WE HANDLE
Legal support across the commercial lifecycle.
Our Fractional General Counsel relationships are built around the legal matters that routinely reach the CEO, CFO and leadership team.
the challenge
Commercial Contracts & Negotiations
Customer, supplier, manufacturing, technology, distribution and other material commercial agreements.
Contract Strategy & Risk
Risk allocation, preferred positions, escalation points and recurring negotiation frameworks.
Corporate & Strategic Matters
Corporate, governance and business matters requiring senior legal input.
Day-to-Day Counsel
Responsive legal guidance for leadership, sales, procurement and operations as issues arise.
WHEN FGC MAKES SENSE
The inflection point is not company size. It is when legal work begins consuming management capacity.
Businesses typically reach this point when:
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the CEO, CFO or other executives are regularly involved in contract negotiations;
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customer and supplier agreements are becoming larger or more complex;
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commercial teams are waiting for legal input before moving matters forward;
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different agreements are being negotiated from inconsistent positions;
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outside counsel is repeatedly engaged for recurring business matters;
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legal spend is increasing without creating institutional knowledge; or
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management wants consistent senior legal support without adding full-time legal headcount.
At that point, the question is no longer whether the company occasionally needs a lawyer.
The question is whether legal has become an operating capability the business needs to manage deliberately.
Industries Served
Industries Served
Why Delta Law
Commercial legal advice built around the business.
Delta Law is focused on business and contracts.
Our lawyers advise businesses on customer and enterprise agreements, manufacturing and supply relationships, technology contracts, distribution arrangements and other commercial relationships where contractual decisions can materially affect revenue, operations and risk.
We approach contracts through both a legal and commercial lens.
A provision dealing with pricing, minimum commitments, exclusivity, termination rights, intellectual property, indemnification or liability is not simply a legal clause. It can change the economics of the relationship.
Our role is to help management understand which risks matter, where negotiation can improve the commercial position and where the business can reasonably accept risk in order to move forward.
Senior Counsel
Clients have direct access to experienced business lawyers on the matters that affect the company.
Commercial Judgment
Legal advice is considered in the context of the transaction, the relationship and the objectives of the business in every situation.
Continuity
We develop familiarity with the company's agreements, counterparties and preferred positions so that every matter does not begin from zero.
Commercial experience where the stakes are real.
Our lawyers advise businesses on significant customer, supplier, manufacturing, technology and strategic commercial agreements involving complex negotiations, material financial commitments and long-term business relationships.
Fractional General Counsel is not simply a block of legal hours. It is an ongoing legal function built around the business.
Deal Execution Advisory
When a Transaction Requires More Than Legal Support
A separate, non-legal advisory service available to Fractional General Counsel clients for strategically important transactions.
FGC clients can also access Delta Law's separate Deal Execution Advisory service for strategically important transactions.
Fractional General Counsel supports the legal workstream. Deal Execution Advisory supports commercial execution.
The Process
Three Steps to the Right Legal Model
01
INTRODUCTORY CALL
30 Minutes
We begin with a high-level discussion of your business, contracting activity and current legal support model.
02
Tailored Recommendation
If there appears to be a fit, we assess the appropriate scope, capacity and engagement structure. Where necessary, we may schedule a deeper discovery session with the relevant members of your team.
03
Proposal & Onboarding
We present the proposed scope, monthly fee, working model and onboarding process.
Move deals forward with legal counsel built around the business.
As commercial agreements become more important to revenue, margin and growth, legal support should evolve with the business.
Delta Law provides senior commercial counsel with the continuity, responsiveness and commercial judgment leadership needs without building a full-time legal department.