You have raised, or are raising
Cap tables that do not reconcile, unmet conditions precedent, unfiled beneficial ownership, resolutions never passed.
For startups & scale-ups
The legal function your company does not yet have.
Fixed-scope legal, governance and compliance support for founders raising capital, selling to enterprise customers, entering regulated markets, or expanding across borders. Fees agreed in writing and invoiced only after the work is delivered. Handled directly by the senior adviser.
The problem
Nobody fails a due diligence because they did something wrong.
They fail it because nobody was responsible for the paperwork while the product was being built.
The pattern is always the same. A term sheet arrives and the securities register does not reconcile. A corporate customer sends a forty-page master services agreement with an indemnity nobody has read. A regulator asks which lawful basis supports the database. Beneficial ownership was never filed. The board has never formally resolved anything.
None of it is difficult to fix in advance. All of it is expensive to fix under deadline.
When to bring us in
Four moments when the paperwork suddenly matters.
The work is most valuable before the funding, customer, regulator or board deadline turns ordinary housekeeping into an emergency.
You are selling to enterprise or government
Customer paper signed unamended: uncapped liability, unlimited indemnities, service credits you cannot meet.
You process personal information at scale
No lawful basis mapped, no operator agreements, no PAIA manual, no incident procedure, cross-border transfers undocumented.
Your board is forming
No charter, no delegation of authority, no conflicts register, decisions taken without resolutions — and King V now applies.
Packages
Three fixed-scope packages.
Every package has a written scope, a fixed fee and a defined deliverable set, confirmed in writing after a short scoping call and before any work begins. Fees are indicative starting points for a company of ordinary complexity and exclude disbursements.
Startup Legal & Governance Diagnostic
A structured review across seven domains — corporate records, shareholding, board, contracts, data protection, employment, and regulatory perimeter — delivered as a ranked risk register and a costed 90-day plan.
- Structured intake questionnaire and document review
- Findings report, rated red / amber / green per domain
- Ranked risk register with recommended actions
- Costed 90-day remediation plan with owners
- Sixty-minute debrief with the founders
R14 50010 business days · recommended starting point
POPIA Compliance Pack
The privacy documentation and controls that enterprise procurement teams and the Information Regulator both expect — and that most growth-stage companies do not have.
- Personal-information inventory and lawful-basis mapping
- Privacy notice and internal data-protection policy
- PAIA manual and Information Officer registration support
- Operator agreements and processing schedules
- Cross-border transfer framework under section 72
- Security-compromise response procedure
- Automated decision-making safeguards under section 71
From R36 0004 weeks
King V Governance Transition Review
King V applies to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, supersedes King IV, and introduces a Disclosure Framework that must be applied by any organisation claiming to apply the Code.
- Gap assessment against the thirteen King V principles
- Board charter and committee terms of reference
- Delegation of authority framework
- Conflicts of interest policy and declarations register
- Directors’ duties briefing under the Companies Act
- Disclosure map: what is reported, where, by whom
From R29 5004 weeks
Fractional legal, governance & compliance adviser
For companies that need continuous access rather than a project: a defined bank of hours each month, a single point of contact, and a fixed fee — at a fraction of the cost of a first legal hire.
From R11 500 a monthInvoiced monthly in arrears, after each month’s work has been delivered. Minimum three months. Registered non-profit organisations are charged at a reduced rate.
Accelerators & investors
One diagnostic, applied across a portfolio.
Applied consistently across a cohort, the diagnostic gives every founder a costed remediation plan — and gives the programme team a single comparable view of where the risk actually sits. Portfolio rates apply from five companies, with a consolidated anonymised risk report.