Putting law into practice.
Pragmatic, actionable and technology-forward legal advice for your regulatory and commercial operations.
Fractional General Counsel
Embed a legal function that works like part of your team. I take ownership of the judgment calls, the operational details, and the systems to make everything in between run itself.
- ExCo-level legal support
- Fundraising preparation and diligence
- Contract and commercial oversight
Legal operations
Bring me in to design and build the processes, templates and tooling to help scale your Legal function.
- Update customer-facing agreements and policies to make it easier for you to sell and for your customers to buy
- Streamline internal processes to reduce friction and improve efficiency
- Template and playbook development
Regulatory strategy and projects
Build strong foundations to move at pace in regulated sectors.
- Market entry, licensing & authorisations
- Product counsel for designing, launching and marketing new products and features
- Regulatory change management
- Draft, review and improve compliance frameworks across data privacy, financial crime and financial services regulation
Supervisory engagement
Act quickly, strategically and responsibly when interacting with regulators, building relationships alongside regulatory maturity.
- Supervisory engagement
- Audits, investigations and remediation
- s. 166 FSMA Skilled Person appointments
Things you might be wondering.
Are you a law firm?
Applied Incantations is a software-driven legal practice that does not conduct 'reserved legal activities' - most regulatory lawyers, even within law firms, do not carry on reserved legal activities. While Applied Incantations is owned and managed by a practising solicitor, the company is not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
What industries do you work with?
We primarily support high-growth fintech, regtech, and SaaS companies in London and across the UK and Europe. We also work with established financial institutions and other regulated businesses on projects that require a blend of legal expertise and operational pragmatism.
How do your 'Public Goods' work?
Tools like our EUR-Lex Legislation Diff (used for tracking blacklines and consolidated versions of EU law) are released for free to help the community move faster and manage regulatory change more effectively.