You are helping your portfolio companies maximize cash and keep costs in line. One glaring problem area is legal services. While you expect legal fees to be high when a company goes through financing rounds and other "lifecycle" events, you are frustrated at the high ongoing legal bills. You think that the large law firms provide quality service, but you are unhappy seeing these companies pay premium rates for their day-to-day operational legal work. Hiring a full time in-house lawyer will add to overhead at a time when a full-time executive may not be necessary.

Outside GC provides a new solution. We are a team of senior attorneys who have served as in-house general counsel to public and VC-backed companies. We act as part-time in-house counsel to companies that can't afford or justify a full-time in-house attorney. We operate just like traditional in-house counsel, but on a part-time basis.

Outside GC will handle your portfolio companies' day-to-day legal needs (contracts, employee matters, leases, IP protection, pre-litigation dispute resolution) at far less than the cost of a traditional law firm. For transactions, litigation and specialized or episodic work, we will work with their outside law firms, and manage them, to get the most out of high-priced specialists when needed.

We'll work with your portfolio companies to streamline their business processes, create re-usable forms and help close deals while keeping a careful eye on things like their valuable intellectual property and their ability to recognize revenue in the current quarter. Large companies rely on in-house counsel for these reasons. Now your portfolio companies can too.