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 Legal-as-a-Service: Strategic Counsel for Growing Businesses


Legal clarity, without complexity

When Does LaaS Make Sense?

You are scaling quickly and making frequent legal decisions

Your contracts or regulatory environment are becoming more complex

You do not have in-house counsel but need day-to-day legal input

You want legal strategy represented at board level

If your business is already navigating legal decisions each week, doing so without proper support creates risk. Legal-as-a-Service is not just more cost-effective than hourly billing. It is smarter, faster, and fully integrated. From the outset, you have a legal partner who understands your business, protects your position, and supports your leadership with commercial focus.

Typical Use Cases

Investor Due Diligence:

  • Ensure clean structuring, contract readiness and legal hygiene ahead of funding rounds. No gaps. No red flags.

Rapid Growth:

  • Immediate legal input on contracts, hiring, compliance and operational risks. Scalable support that keeps pace with your ambitions.

Exit Planning:

  • M&A-ready structuring, data room preparation and seller-side legal strategy designed to maximise value and control.

Commercial Clarity:

  • Clarity and confidence across key supplier contracts, customer agreements and commercial terms. No ambiguity. No surprises.

Risk Containment:

  • Decisive legal guidance on emerging issues before they escalate into liabilities. Early action. Minimal disruption.

Dispute Resolution:

  • Strategic legal response when your business is exposed. Fast, focused support at the moment it matters most.

Ongoing Legal Support:

  • Speak to your lawyer without waiting for approval or worrying about extra charges. Clear scope. Defined outcomes. Trusted advice always on hand.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Commercial legal advice aligned with your business strategy

Board-level legal input that drives decision-making, not just supports it

Contract negotiation and review with your commercial priorities front and centre

Regulatory and compliance oversight that protects without slowing you down

M&A readiness, from due diligence through to negotiation and close

Risk mapping and mitigation that is proactive, not reactive

Employment and HR legal support that avoids tribunal drama and protects culture

A dedicated legal advisor who knows your business and picks up the phone when you call

A fixed, budgetable cost model with no surprise fees and no clock watching

Scope is defined together. Delivery is consistent. Advice is tailored, commercially focused and built on trust.

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Legal Strategy on Demand

Blackmont Legal’s LaaS model replaces outdated, reactive legal support with embedded legal expertise. Delivered like a true business function, it is consistent, strategic, and aligned to your commercial objectives from day one.

Whether you are a lean startup, a scaling venture, or navigating high-stakes mergers and acquisitions, LaaS gives you direct access to commercially minded lawyers who understand your business and focus on outcomes, not billable hours.

Three tiers. One mindset. Protect value. Unlock growth. Move with confidence.

Each plan includes:

  • A dedicated legal advisor who operates like an in-house counsel
  • Strategic legal input via Slack, email or call when you need it
  • Contract, compliance and commercial advisory tailored to your goals
  • Fixed monthly pricing with complete transparency

Case Study

Please see below examples how each tier of the LaaS service has assisted a real-world customer

Founder Case Study

First Big Contract, No Missteps. How Blackmont Legal Supports Scale with Confidence
Core Case Study

Group Complexity, Simplified. How Blackmont Legal Provides Embedded Legal Clarity at Scale
Enterprise Case Study

LaaS at Enterprise Level — Preparing Portfolio Companies for Strategic Exit

Our Credentials


Blackmont Legal’s team is led by Zohaib Hashim, a seasoned legal strategist with experience as General Counsel to international businesses, high-growth tech ventures, and regulated firms.

We’ve supported:

Multi-million-pound acquisitions

Complex cross-border commercial deals

Product and Service distribution in over one hundred countries

Internal corporate restructures & finances

Investor readiness for UK and overseas funding

Film, media & music

Your legal partner should speak the language of business. We do

Legal-as-a service plans

Engagement Options

Choose the level of legal coverage that aligns with your business pace and pressure.

Pricing Table
Service Level Foundation Core Executive
Plans £350
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Ideal For Early-stage or lean teams needing occasional commercial legal input or advice Scaling teams or those in funding, restructuring, or growth Businesses in active transactions or high-growth environments
Monthly Access Up to 1 hours Up to 5 hours Up to 10 hours
Features Inclusions
Priority access to your Blackmont Legal lawyer ✓ ✓ ✓
Contracts, policies, and strategic legal input ✓ ✓ ✓
Direct Slack/email contact - A lawyer who knows your business. ✓ ✓ ✓
Everything in Taster Board-level advisory ✗ ✓ ✓
Document and data room preparation ✗ ✓ ✓
Everything in Taster & Core - Embedded legal support ✗ ✗ ✓
Monthly check-ins and legal forecasting ✗ ✗ ✓
External counsel coordination and leadership ✗ ✗ ✓

The legal landscape has changed. Businesses need more than reactionary legal help. They need proactive, embedded legal strategy that evolves with them.

Blackmont Legal’s Legal-as-a-Service model is built for precisely that. No jargon. No bloated retainers. Just serious legal capability, embedded into your business. 

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Immediate, informed legal action when and where needed
Commercial continuity supported through proactive legal strategy

What is Legal-as-a-Service?

Legal-as-a-Service (LaaS) is our modern alternative to hiring in-house counsel or relying on ad hoc legal advice. It gives you seamless, ongoing access to commercially-minded solicitors who operate as an extension of your team.

Unlike traditional law firms, we don’t wait for a problem to occur. We work proactively, embedding ourselves into your workflows, understanding your priorities, and aligning legal strategy with commercial outcomes.

Unlike traditional legal costs, the LaaS model is designed to make legal expenditure a predictable and budget able cost for your business. That means when an urgent need arises (for example, a critical customer contract, supplier relationship breakdown, or even a claim being commenced against your business), the right support is already in place and you just give our team the go-ahead to deal with it, while you focus on the areas of your business that demand your attention most.

Engagement Options

Choose the level of legal coverage that aligns with your business pace and pressure.

Pricing Table

Service Level Foundation Core Executive
Ideal For Early-stage or lean teams needing occasional commercial legal input or advice Scaling teams or those in funding, restructuring, or growth Businesses in active transactions or high-growth environments
Monthly Access Up to 1 hours Up to 5 hours Up to 10 hours
Features Inclusions
Priority access to your Blackmont Legal lawyer ✓ ✓ ✓
Contracts, policies, and strategic legal input ✓ ✓ ✓
Direct Slack/email contact - A lawyer who knows your business. ✓ ✓ ✓
Everything in Taster Board-level advisory ✗ ✓ ✓
Document and data room preparation ✗ ✓ ✓
Everything in Taster & Core - Embedded legal support ✗ ✗ ✓
Monthly check-ins and legal forecasting ✗ ✗ ✓
External counsel coordination and leadership ✗ ✗ ✓
No tie-ins. No handoffs. Your lawyer stays close, sharp, and commercially relevant

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Let’s build your legal infrastructure the right way

Talk to us about how Legal-as-a-Service can strengthen operations, reduce risk, and keep you in control. No pressure. Just commercially driven legal support from a team that gets what’s at stake.

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Client Profile

A growth-stage electronic recycling firm based in the North West. Founded by a solo entrepreneur with a background in sustainability and operations, the business is modernising the often-overlooked world of tech disposal. With a lean team, rising demand and a strong market niche, the founder is balancing day-to-day operations with strategic positioning for long-term growth.

Blackmont Legal’s Role

Blackmont Legal is providing ongoing legal support through our Legal-as-a-Service model. Our work includes commercial structuring, contract negotiation, risk analysis and ad hoc advisory as the business evolves.

The Situation

The client secured an opportunity to contract with a national business looking to outsource their IT asset disposal needs. This single contract has the potential to double the company’s revenue and establish a national footprint. But the size of the deal introduced new legal risk. The contract was complex, heavily weighted in the client’s favour and required a level of legal scrutiny and negotiation the founder had not faced before.

This was not the moment to test a template contract. It was the moment to protect the business.

The Action

As part of the LaaS relationship, the founder did not need to hunt for lawyers or delay negotiations. We were already on board. We reviewed the draft contract, identified critical clauses around liability, service obligations and indemnities, and redrafted key terms to protect the founder’s downside.

We also supported commercial discussions, translating legal risk into practical decisions the founder could make with confidence. Importantly, we worked at speed. The deal was time-sensitive and the client could not afford to delay.

The Result

The client signed their largest contract to date, with safeguards in place that preserved flexibility and protected financial exposure. The deal included a clear service scope, manageable liability caps and commercial clarity that enabled the founder to plan resourcing and delivery without fear of contractual traps.

Why LaaS Worked

For a founder in growth mode, unpredictable legal spend is a blocker. Our LaaS model gave this client ongoing access to legal advice without unexpected bills. They did not hesitate to ask questions or request redrafts. They had legal input at every stage, from initial conversation to contract execution, without taking focus off growth.

Client Profile

A director and majority shareholder overseeing a group of businesses operating across real estate, construction and retail services. The corporate structure includes multiple trading entities, shared directors and inter-company dealings. The client manages various commercial leases and high-value contracts across the group, often requiring fast legal input across different operational needs.

Blackmont Legal’s Role

Through our Legal-as-a-Service model, Blackmont Legal provides ongoing legal counsel across the director’s full portfolio. We support on lease reviews and negotiations, supplier and service contracts, group structure strategy and risk containment. Our advice is commercial, strategic and designed to scale with the client’s portfolio.

The Situation

As the group expanded, the director faced a regular flow of legal matters. These included complex leasehold negotiations for new retail locations, supplier disputes and the need to review and update inter-company agreements. Previously, legal work had been handled on an ad hoc basis, which led to delays, inconsistent advice and unexpected costs.

The lack of ongoing legal support was not just a bottleneck. It was a risk.

The Action

We established a LaaS relationship to give the director consistent access to legal support across the full group. We implemented a centralised legal review process, triaging lease and contract matters as they arose. We worked directly with the director and relevant managers, handling negotiations, reviewing key commercial terms and drafting protective clauses tailored to the structure of the group.

Our team acted as the go-to legal resource, enabling fast response and risk-aware decision-making without repeated onboarding or reactive firefighting.

The Result

The director gained predictable legal support with no surprises on cost. Leasehold arrangements were negotiated on stronger commercial terms. Group contracts were streamlined and aligned. Legal issues that might have been missed were caught early and resolved without escalation.

Most importantly, legal support became a daily asset, not an emergency measure.

Why LaaS Worked

Managing multiple entities means multiple touchpoints for risk. Without dedicated legal insight, operational decisions expose the business to liabilities and inefficiencies. LaaS gave this director a single point of legal clarity across the group. Costs were budgeted. Advice was proactive. Time was saved and risk was reduced, all without adding headcount.

Client Profile

A UK-based venture capital firm that specialises in scaling small acquisition targets for exit within a 12 to 36 month window. The firm invests across SaaS, consultancy, and digital infrastructure. Their model is focused on buying early, improving operational and legal readiness, and securing high-value exits.

Blackmont Legal’s Role

Brought in under our Enterprise-level Legal-as-a-Service plan, Blackmont Legal was tasked with preparing multiple portfolio businesses for eventual sale. Each business had strong fundamentals but was underprepared from a legal standpoint. The client needed consistency, commercial focus, and immediate access to legal expertise across the group.

The Situation

While each company was operationally sound, the legal frameworks were incomplete. Shareholder agreements were inconsistent. Key contracts lacked assignment and termination provisions. Employment terms were outdated. Data rooms had not been created. Without early intervention, exit timelines and valuations would be at risk.

The lack of ongoing legal support was not just a bottleneck. It was a risk.

The Action

Blackmont Legal embedded counsel across each business. We carried out full legal diagnostics and implemented strategic improvements, including:

Auditing legal frameworks and closing structural gaps Redrafting shareholder agreements to reflect exit objectives and investor rights Upgrading key commercial contracts to support clean assignments and reduce buyer friction Implementing employment law compliance and unified documentation Conducting GDPR and IP ownership audits to ensure asset clarity Building comprehensive M&A-ready data rooms Supporting early-stage acquirer interactions, including NDAs and preliminary offer terms

Each intervention was timed and prioritised to align with business strategy and avoid disruption to day-to-day operations.

The Result

The VC firm’s portfolio became visibly exit-ready. Buyers encountered clean documentation, enforceable contracts, consistent governance, and clear intellectual property ownership. Due diligence moved faster. Risk exposure was reduced. Value was preserved.

Where exits occurred, Blackmont Legal remained involved to manage transaction documents, buyer negotiations, and close procedures. For other companies, our ongoing presence continues to support strategic growth and acquisition-readiness.

Why Enterprise-Level LaaS Was the Right Fit

With multiple businesses approaching maturity at the same time, the VC firm needed structured, reliable legal support that could flex with demand. Enterprise-level LaaS delivered predictable costs, rapid mobilisation, and embedded legal capability without adding internal headcount.