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 takes time – sometimes over 6 months when taking into account that candidates often have 3 month notice periods with their existing employer. A fintech legal consultant can help you bridge the gap so your business doesn’t get slowed down during the recruitment period. until your new starter joins. You’ve got the budget for a staff member already, so use it by leveraging our bridging support services.

  • You can set up bridging support with us in as little as 24 hours. The first step is setting up an initial discussion with you to discuss your needs. Then, we’ll put together a letter of engagement for you to review and agree to kick things off. If you’re in a rush, we can usually get the letter of engagement over to within an hour after our initial discussion.

  • We don’t charge hourly rates. The cost to engage a fintech legal consultant to provide bridging support will involve a fixed monthly fee. In return, the consultant will commit to providing a fixed number of hours per month to support you until you no longer need our support (eg, when your permanent staff member starts work with you).

  • No, you’re not locked into a long-term commitment when you engage us to provide bridging support services. A fintech legal consultant provides bridging support services on a month-to-month basis, which means you can terminate at any time by providing one month’s notice.

  • The fintech legal consultant will issue you with a tax invoice at the end of each month. For most clients, you will pay the consultant in the same way you pay your other vendors. You don’t engage a fintech legal consultant as an employee, so the payment arrangements are easy and straightforward.