Service
CLO/GC aaS
Your Trusted Legal Lead, Without the Full-time Cost
We step in as your Chief Legal Officer or General Counsel, embedding deeply with your business to provide strategic legal leadership. From managing risk and overseeing compliance to guiding complex decisions and building internal legal capability, you get seasoned legal direction with the flexibility your business needs.
Getting Your House in Order
Strategic Legal Leadership On-Demand
Heliswot gives you flexible access to executive-level legal leadership—when and how you need it. You get the insight and strategic thinking of a seasoned Chief Legal Officer or General Counsel without the full-time cost, headcount pressure, or overhead of building it yourself.
Embedded Support, Not Outsider Advice
We don’t parachute in with passive advice—we become part of your leadership team. Whether we’re shaping commercial strategy, negotiating key transactions, or aligning legal risk with business appetite, we work alongside your C-suite, board, and business leaders to drive outcomes from the inside.
Built for Business, Not Just Law
Our experience spans startups, scaleups, listed entities, and global operations. That means we understand growth pressures, stakeholder expectations, and the need for practical trade-offs. We help you structure smarter, move faster, and make confident decisions—even in the grey areas.
Team Capability & Legal Function Design
If you’re growing, we help design and build the legal function you’ll need next—whether that’s upskilling internal resources, onboarding tools, or mapping out a future in-house structure. We ensure your legal capability evolves in step with your business.
Proactive Risk & Compliance Management
We identify and address legal and regulatory issues before they become problems—implementing scalable policies, processes, and decision-making frameworks that grow with you. Our approach reduces noise, lifts internal confidence, and ensures your business can operate without legal drag
Getting Your House in Order
Strategic Legal Leadership On-Demand
Heliswot gives you flexible access to executive-level legal leadership—when and how you need it. You get the insight and strategic thinking of a seasoned Chief Legal Officer or General Counsel without the full-time cost, headcount pressure, or overhead of building it yourself.
Embedded Support, Not Outsider Advice
We don’t parachute in with passive advice—we become part of your leadership team. Whether we’re shaping commercial strategy, negotiating key transactions, or aligning legal risk with business appetite, we work alongside your C-suite, board, and business leaders to drive outcomes from the inside.
Built for Business, Not Just Law
Our experience spans startups, scaleups, listed entities, and global operations. That means we understand growth pressures, stakeholder expectations, and the need for practical trade-offs. We help you structure smarter, move faster, and make confident decisions—even in the grey areas.
Team Capability & Legal Function Design
If you’re growing, we help design and build the legal function you’ll need next—whether that’s upskilling internal resources, onboarding tools, or mapping out a future in-house structure. We ensure your legal capability evolves in step with your business.
Proactive Risk & Compliance Management
We identify and address legal and regulatory issues before they become problems—implementing scalable policies, processes, and decision-making frameworks that grow with you. Our approach reduces noise, lifts internal confidence, and ensures your business can operate without legal drag
Service Summary
Our CLO or GC as a Service offering delivers executive-level legal leadership to ambitious businesses—without the traditional costs or barriers. We embed deeply into your team, offering strategic guidance, risk management, and hands-on support to navigate everything from governance to growth. With global, real-world experience and a sharp commercial lens, we become your trusted legal partner—there to steady the ship, challenge your thinking, and unlock value across the business.
Process Steps
Initial Briefing & Alignment
We meet with founders, executives, or the board to understand the current state of play—legal needs, business priorities, risk profile, and growth plans.
Role Definition & Scope Mapping
Together, we define how the CLO/GC function will operate—what we own, where we advise, and how we integrate across your business.
Stakeholder Engagement & Immersion
We build relationships with key internal stakeholders, gaining insight into day-to-day operations, commercial activity, and pain points needing leadership input.
Strategic Engagement & Operational Support
We provide continuous support across legal risk, commercial negotiations, compliance, transactions, governance, and internal alignment—tailored to your business stage.
Function Maturity & Transition Planning
As your needs grow, we help you build internal capability or scale your legal team—ensuring a smooth evolution of the function, with continuity and care.
Your Outcomes
You get expert legal leadership without the overhead. Faster decisions, stronger governance, and a confident legal presence at the executive table—designed to move with your business, not slow it down.
Service Summary
Our CLO or GC as a Service offering delivers executive-level legal leadership to ambitious businesses—without the traditional costs or barriers. We embed deeply into your team, offering strategic guidance, risk management, and hands-on support to navigate everything from governance to growth. With global, real-world experience and a sharp commercial lens, we become your trusted legal partner—there to steady the ship, challenge your thinking, and unlock value across the business.
Process Steps
Initial Briefing & Alignment
We meet with founders, executives, or the board to understand the current state of play—legal needs, business priorities, risk profile, and growth plans.
Role Definition & Scope Mapping
Together, we define how the CLO/GC function will operate—what we own, where we advise, and how we integrate across your business.
Stakeholder Engagement & Immersion
We build relationships with key internal stakeholders, gaining insight into day-to-day operations, commercial activity, and pain points needing leadership input.
Strategic Engagement & Operational Support
We provide continuous support across legal risk, commercial negotiations, compliance, transactions, governance, and internal alignment—tailored to your business stage.
Function Maturity & Transition Planning
As your needs grow, we help you build internal capability or scale your legal team—ensuring a smooth evolution of the function, with continuity and care.
Your Outcomes
You get expert legal leadership without the overhead. Faster decisions, stronger governance, and a confident legal presence at the executive table—designed to move with your business, not slow it down.
Engagement Areas
Engagement Areas
Growth-Stage Legal Leadership
Support during rapid growth, market expansion, or restructuring—where strategic legal direction is critical, but a full-time GC isn’t yet viable.
Board & C-Suite Alignment
We speak the language of business and law – bridging gaps between legal risk, commercial decisions, and executive execution.
Operational Legal Coverage
Day-to-day support across contracts, compliance, people, IP, disputes, and stakeholder communications – led with clarity, not complexity.
