General Counsel as a Service
Your outsourced legal department — strategy, risk and day-to-day decisions, on call for a fixed monthly fee.
General Counsel as a Service · Perth
Your in-house counsel, on a fixed monthly fee.
An embedded commercial partner for established, growing WA businesses — contracts, structuring and employment law, in plain English. No billable hours.
Credentials
- Law Society of Western Australia
- General Counsel to a WA Top 100 business
- Commercial contracts
- Business structuring
- Employment law
- Fixed monthly pricing
- No billable hours
- Plain-English advice
- Leederville, Perth
The Principal
Founder & Principal
Aesir is led by a practising commercial lawyer who currently serves as General Counsel and a senior executive at a WA Top 100 private business — bringing genuine in-house judgement to firms that have outgrown ad-hoc advice but aren’t ready for a full legal team…
Meet the principal
Who we are
We are Aesir — a boutique commercial law and strategic advisory firm in Leederville, working as the embedded legal partner to businesses that have outgrown ad-hoc advice but aren’t ready for a full in-house team.
A different model
Traditional firms bill by the hour. That works for them — not for you.
The old way
- Every email, call and review on the clock — so you hesitate to ask.
- Unpredictable invoices that arrive after the work is done.
- Advice written for other lawyers, not for decision-makers.
- A new contact each time, with no memory of your business.
The Aesir way
- One fixed monthly fee — ask as often as you need.
- Budget certainty — you know the cost before the work starts.
- Plain-English advice tied to a commercial outcome.
- One partner who knows your business and its history.
What we do
Senior commercial counsel across the work that moves your business.
Commercial Contracts
Drafting, review and negotiation — supply, services, partnerships and terms that hold up and read clearly.
Business Structuring
Entities, shareholdings and governance set up to protect what you’ve built and support where you’re heading.
Employment Law
Contracts, policies, restructures and the hard conversations — handled before they become disputes.
How it works
From first call to embedded counsel in three steps.
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01
Discovery call
A no-cost conversation about your business, your risks and where legal work is slowing you down.
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02
Embed & scope
We agree a fixed monthly scope and get to know your operations, contracts and team — properly.
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03
Ongoing counsel
You get a partner on call — proactive advice, fast turnarounds and one predictable invoice.
The partner you work with
Senior, in-house experience — without the in-house overhead.
Aesir is led by a practising commercial lawyer who currently serves as General Counsel and a senior executive at a WA Top 100 private business — the same seat your leadership team sits in.
That means advice grounded in commercial reality: what a board actually needs to decide, how a deal really gets done, and where the genuine risk sits — not a memo hedging every line.
- WA Top 100
- current GC & senior exec
- Fixed-fee
- no billable hours, ever
- Plain English
- advice you can act on
- Perth
- Leederville-based, WA-wide
In their words
Businesses that stopped watching the clock.
“It’s like having a GC on the leadership team — without adding one to payroll. We just pick up the phone.”
“The fixed fee changed how we operate. The team finally asks for advice early instead of after something’s gone wrong.”
“Plain-English, fast, and commercial. Our contracts are tighter and I actually understand what I’m signing.”
How can the price be fixed when legal work is unpredictable?
Because we scope to your business, not to the clock. After the discovery call we agree what’s in and what sits outside the monthly fee. Genuinely large, one-off projects (a major transaction, litigation) are quoted separately and upfront — never as a surprise.
What exactly is “General Counsel as a Service”?
It’s an outsourced in-house legal function. You get the strategic, on-call legal partner a large company has internally — without the salary, on-costs or recruitment — for a fixed monthly fee.
Do you replace our existing law firm?
Often we become the day-to-day counsel and manage specialist firms on your behalf — briefing them, reviewing their work and protecting your interests, so you deal with one trusted point of contact.
Which businesses do you work with?
Established, growing small-to-medium businesses across WA — typically past start-up, with real revenue and contracts, but not yet large enough to justify a full-time legal hire.
Let’s talk
Start with a no-cost discovery call.
Thirty minutes to understand your business and show you exactly how an embedded legal partner would work — and what it would cost.
No obligation. No billable hours — not even for the first call.