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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Blackmont Legal LaaS
Subscription
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.
| Service Level | Foundation | Core | Executive |
| Plans | £350 /month |
£1,750 /month |
£3,000 /month |
| 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.
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.
- One Balloon Street, Manchester, M4 4BE
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- info@blackmontlegal.com
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