Legal infrastructure built into business growth.

Team Counsel builds better businesses with legal built in.

A proactive legal operating system built for startups, scaleups, and enterprises as they move through growth, complexity, and change.

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John Mathew
Founder & CEO

I work with businesses to build legal into their growth.

I partner with founders, leadership teams, and investors across startups, scaleups, and enterprises, helping build the legal structures, systems, and ways of working that support the business as it evolves, from formation and fundraising to governance, transactions, contracts, and beyond.

Move legal from a reactive function to part of the business infrastructure, built into decisions and ready for what comes next.

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WHAT WE DO

Four practices, one legal infrastructure.

Emerging Company Practice
Build the legal foundation before growth complicates matters.
Fractional General Counsel
Bring experienced legal thinking alongside the business as decisions get bigger and faster.
Contract-as-a-Service
Make contracts easier to manage, execute, and scale as commercial activity grows.
Legal Design & Transformation
Turn fragmented legal processes into systems that are simpler, smarter, and built to scale.
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WHAT JOHN DOES

From the right opportunity to the right conversation.

01
Anticipate
Identify the legal needs growth is likely to bring before they become constraints.
02
Embed
Bring legal thinking into the decisions, structures, and systems that run the business.
03
Evolve
Build a legal function that can adapt as the business, its risks, and its ambitions grow.
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