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Board and Investor Legal Support

Director · Fractional General Counsel · On-site · Birmingham

£60–£71/ hour About £430 a month at 2 h a week. Set by the company within a range checked against market pay for the role; your recruiter agrees your exact rate with you before anything is sent. Deftridge adds 15% on top and bills it to the company, so nothing comes out of your rate.
Company
Series C digital-asset exchange for payments · 201–500 employeesCL-49331 · based in Harlow
Where
On-site · Birmingham
Format
Regular role
Time needed
1–2 h a week
Start
Starts within 2 weeks
Level
Director · 10-15 years
When you work
Flexible hours, async3 h a week overlap with UK time

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About this task

This Series C digital-asset exchange for payments (201–500 employees) is looking for a director Fractional General Counsel for an ongoing part-time engagement of 1–2 h a week. Minutes, resolutions and investor documents.

The company wants a senior person on this without carrying the cost of a full-time role. It works in digital assets, where compliance and record keeping are a daily topic.

The company prefers a person who can come to Birmingham for kickoff and the final review; the rest is remote. You choose your hours; nothing is scheduled except an occasional short call. About 3 hours a week should overlap with the team's day (UK time).

What you deliver

  • Prepare board resolutions and review investor side letters for the financing round.
  • A written update every Wednesday with what was done, what is next and anything blocked
  • Questions collected in one thread, answered within one working day
  • A short handover note when the engagement pauses or ends

What a week looks like

  • Daily: one hour at a time that suits you, inside the agreed window
  • Monday: ten-minute sync if anything is blocked
  • Wednesday: weekly summary posted to the shared thread

Duration: 12 weeks, renewable. Accepted when the company contact confirms the deliverable against the written checklist. One round of edits is included.

Tools

CartaDocuSignWord

Who fits

  • 10-15 years of hands-on work as a Fractional General Counsel, or the equivalent mix of roles
  • Comfortable working in Carta, DocuSign and Word
  • Admission to practise in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland is required, and the sign-off on legal advice stays with the company's own counsel.
  • Your own work history stays private; the company sees a first name, your field and a rate

Nice to have

  • Comfortable explaining numbers or decisions to a non-specialist reader
  • Experience in a similar industry

Not included

  • Anything that needs a signature in your own name unless the brief says so
  • On-call availability outside the agreed window
  • A signature or opinion in your own name: sign-off stays with the company

How you get paid

  • The company prepays Deftridge before your first hour, so payment does not depend on a late invoice.
  • Deftridge pays you in GBP after the company confirms the hours or the deliverable. The payment date is written in your task agreement.
  • You work as an independent contractor: you report your own income, and your recruiter sends the statements your accountant needs.
  • You never chase the company. Questions about money go to Deftridge.

What happens after you say you're interested

  1. Within one working dayA recruiter writes to you to confirm your hours and the rate you want.
  2. You agree the rateYou and the recruiter fix an exact rate inside the company's range. You decide whether to go ahead.
  3. With your written OKThe company sees the anonymous profile below. Most companies answer within three working days.
  4. StartYou sign the task agreement and the company's confidentiality terms through Deftridge, and begin on the date above.

What the company sees about you

First name, field, experience, tools and the hours you offer. Not your surname, your employer or your contact details.

Your profile
AlexDirector Fractional General Counsel
Experience
10-15 years in legal
Tools
Carta, DocuSign, Word
Offers
2 hours a week, weekday evenings
Rate
£66 an hour, agreed with the recruiter

How this rate compares

The midpoint of this range, £66 an hour, is above the median director Fractional General Counsel rate in West Midlands (£65). The shaded band is the 25th to 75th percentile of the market.

All Fractional General Counsel jobs in United Kingdom · Fractional General Counsel rates in West Midlands · Legal jobs

Questions about pay and privacy

The rules are the same for every task. Pricing explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; How it works covers matching, what the company sees and side work next to a job.

CL-49331 is the Deftridge code for this company. Its name is shared only after you agree to an introduction, and you decide whether to go ahead.

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