Bridging support

You might have a need to fill a gap in your legal, risk or compliance team for a short period of time. A fintech legal consultant can help you bridge the gap until you hire a permanent team member. These bridging arrangements can often be set up in as little as one day without being locked into multi-month minimum commitments. Our bridging support is offered on a fixed-fee basis to give you budget certainty so you’re never surprised with unexpected costs.

What our fintech legal consultants do

Legal and compliance gap

A fintech legal consultant helps you fill your legal and compliance gap until you hire a permanent team member.

Contract review and management

A fintech legal consultant can help you with the review and management of your customer and vendor contracts until you hire a permanent staff member.

Corporate and commercial

A fintech legal consultant can help you with your corporate and commercial legal requirements such as commercial deals, fundraising and cosec admin.

Product and regulatory

A fintech legal consultant can help you with the design and execution of your products including providing guidance regarding regulatory and privacy obligations.

Sense checking

A fintech legal consultant can serve as a sounding board to provide a second pair of eyes until you hire a permanent staff member.

FAQs

  • Hiring permanent staff can take time – sometimes 3 to 6 months when taking into consideration notice periods. A fintech legal consultant can help you bridge the gap until your new starter joins so your business doesn’t slow down during the recruitment period.

  • You can set up bridging support on the same day. All that’s required is an executed contract to set up an independent contractor arrangement. We can use your standard contractor template or you can use our standard terms and conditions.

  • We don’t charge hourly rates. The cost to engage a fintech legal consultant to provide bridging support will involve a fixed monthly fee. The consultant will commit to providing a fixed number of hours per month to support you until your hire a permanent staff member.

  • No. A fintech legal consultant can provide month-to-month services meaning you can terminate at any time before the start of the next month. You’re not locked into the engagement.

  • The fintech legal consultant will issue you with a tax invoice at the end of the month. You pay the consultant in the same way you pay your other vendors. The process is easy and straightforward.