The Embedded Legal Team
Built for Scale-ups
The standard options don't work. A full-time GC is too expensive, running $200k–300k a year before benefits. Law firms charge by the six-minute unit and treat every question as an event. Solo fractional hires give you one person where you often need three or four.
LayerOne Legal was built as the alternative that doesn't exist yet: a dedicated team of four legal professionals, embedded in your operations, covering legal, compliance, and commercial risk on a single predictable retainer.
Better outcomes. Radically different economics.
Your Dedicated Team
From S$7,800/mo (USD $6,000/mo) — three coverage levels available. See pricing
Your dedicated team
Managing Legal Consultant
Strategic legal, regulatory & risk advisory
Senior Legal Consultant
Complex transactions & contract negotiations
Legal Manager
Contract review & drafting
Legal Manager
Policy drafting & legal ops
Our ways of working
Full Legal Workload Coverage
We cover contracts, compliance, employment, fundraising, data protection, corporate matters and any other legal matters that arise. See next section for more details.
Embedded Communication
We embed into your preferred communication and project management tools. We provide a white-glove bespoke integration that matches your current infrastructure, whether that's Slack, Google Workspace or other existing tools.
Regular Legal Strategy Sync
We plug into your existing all hands or touchpoints. Functioning as an integrated team within your company, we maintain dedicated communication with senior management on a weekly basis.
Flexible Commitment
We offer month-to-month billing with a short 10-day notice period. No long term commitment required.
What Embedded Legal Feels Like
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"What differentiates Daniel and his team is that they don't operate like an outside counsel, they operate like part of the business. From day one, they embedded themselves into our processes, regularly joined our internal calls, and built a structured ticketing system to handle legal and regulatory requests that actually works for a fast-moving team. Their responsiveness is consistent, and their ability to translate complex regulatory questions into commercially sound guidance means we spend less time briefing and more time executing. For any scale-up that needs legal and regulatory support that moves at the pace of the business, they deliver exactly that."
"For a scaling fintech, finding legal and advisory support that genuinely moves in tandem with our business is rare. Daniel and his team do exactly that. They integrated directly into our Jira system, embedded themselves into our internal calls, and hit the ground running, clearing a six-month backlog of loan agreements and establishing an SOP with a three-business-day turnaround, often sooner. What sets them apart is the breadth and quality of the advice, they bring a sharp commercial lens to licensing and regulatory matters, have supported our corporate restructuring, and have added real value across HR, tech, and go-to-market strategy, including at board level. They don't feel like external counsel. They feel like part of the team."
"Daniel and his team were instrumental in supporting the build of our compliance and regulatory framework, providing clear, practical legal and regulatory advice aligned with MAS requirements and the broader Singapore regulatory framework. They provided strong support across both advisory and practical application of regulatory requirements, helping to facilitate delivery and timelines effectively. The team has been consistently knowledgeable, responsive, and reliable, and demonstrated the ability to embed as a strong extension of the function. They also integrated seamlessly into the working dynamic, with strong alignment and effective collaboration throughout the engagement."
Three Coverage Levels.
The Same Team.
Every tier gives you the same embedded team of four, choose based on the level of legal coverage that you need.
Steady, bounded legal needs: commercial contracts, employment, regulatory compliance, and basic corporate matters. No active M&A, licensing, or complex fundraising.
- Regulatory advisory & compliance
- Commercial contracts
- Employment & HR
- Data & privacy
- Intellectual property
- Basic corporate structuring
- Simple fundraising instruments
Legal is a dependency for growth, with fundraising, market expansion, and regulatory build-out are underway or imminent. Multiple workstreams running simultaneously.
- Full fundraising (SAFTs, term sheets, investor DD)
- Complex corporate structuring
- Strategic advisory
Legal is a continuous, strategic function: licensing applications, M&A, complex fundraising, and board-level advisory are regular activities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Everything in LayerBase & LayerCore
- Licensing applications (MAS, VASP, payments)
- M&A advisory
- Board-level strategic advisory
- Multi-jurisdiction at full complexity
A matter is a single legal question, task, or document, categorised by the LayerOne Legal team at intake.
- Covers advisory and document work equally. A contract review is one matter. A regulatory question is one matter.
- Where a single request covers more than one matter, the LayerOne Legal team confirms the count at intake before work commences.
- Volume is tracked on a rolling 30-day window, not a calendar month, so a busy fortnight does not penalise a quiet one.
| Legal category | Layer Base |
Layer Core |
Layer Prime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory advisory & compliance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commercial contracts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Employment & HR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data & privacy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intellectual property | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic corporate structuring & governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fundraising: simple instruments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fundraising: full (SAFTs, term sheets, investor DD) | × | ✓ | ✓ |
| Complex corporate structuring | × | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strategic advisory | × | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licensing applications (MAS, VASP, payments) | × | × | ✓ |
| M&A advisory | × | × | ✓ |
| Board-level advisory | × | × | ✓ |