Fractional General Counsel Services
Legal counsel for companies building what comes next.
ayni brings General Counsel judgment inside your team so deals close faster, privacy and AI governance get pragmatic guidance designed early on, and you have a complete legal function running before you are ready to make your first in-house hire.
The promise
Senior legal judgment without the full-time department. Deals close. Privacy and AI get practical guidance early, so they keep up with product instead of slowing it down. Employment issues get handled early. Diligence gets boring. Exactly how it should be.
What I work on
Everything a General Counsel actually owns.
Commercial
Enterprise contracting, procurement, MSAs, DPAs, SaaS and API agreements, partnerships and reseller deals, done at the pace your business actually moves.
Privacy and AI Governance
Privacy and AI governance designed early with product and engineering, GDPR and CCPA, ISO 27701 and ISO 42001, EU AI Act alignment, and responsible AI programs that scale with how your team actually ships.
Employment and HR
Offer letters, PIPs, leaves, accommodations, separations, RIFs, and the hard conversations that come with growing a team.
Equity and Corporate
Stock plans, cap table hygiene, 409A cadence, board consents, governance, and the corporate housekeeping that makes diligence painless.
Fundraising and M&A
Data room readiness, legal diligence, side letters, acquisition support. The work that decides whether a deal closes on time or drags.
Legal Operations
Contract playbooks, CLM setup, intake, templates, and vendor stack. A legal function that scales without hiring three more lawyers.
What it feels like
Built into the business.
I work in your operating rhythm, so legal is part of the decision-making instead of a checkpoint at the end.
Calm in the messy middle.
People issues, equity questions, diligence pressure, customer escalations. You get clear judgment when the stakes rise.
Practical by design.
The goal is not more legal process. It is cleaner decisions, faster deals, and a function your team can actually use.
How it starts
A real conversation
I talk through what you are building, what is keeping you up at night, and whether this makes sense. Nothing to buy.
I build the right scope with you
Shaped around your stage, not a template designed for a different size company.
Then I show up
I join your tools, your rhythms, your Slack. The goal is that you stop thinking of me as outside the company.