Your Outside General Counsel
40+ years combining legal expertise, psychology, and international business experience to help companies make better strategic decisions — when the stakes are highest.
Without the cost or commitment of a full-time general counsel.
Legal strategy informed by psychology under pressure.
Structured transactions across Africa, China, Dubai, and Europe.
How I Help
Designed for your company’s specific situation — with clear outcomes, senior-level access, and flexible engagement structures that match the pace and pressure of the decision in front of you.
Fractional General Counsel
Ongoing part-time counsel for companies that need strategic legal leadership without adding a full-time GC.
- Executive-level legal oversight aligned with business priorities.
- Flexible support for governance, contracts, risk, and special projects.
- A practical outside counsel relationship that feels embedded, not outsourced.
M&A, Deals, and Growth
Support for acquisitions, strategic partnerships, financing, and complex negotiation moments.
- Deal structuring and negotiation strategy.
- Cross-border coordination and transaction management.
- Clear issue-spotting before risk becomes cost.
Boardroom Judgment
Thought partnership for founders and executives making consequential decisions in uncertain conditions.
- Decision support when legal, relational, and strategic issues intersect.
- Negotiation insight informed by psychology and business context.
- Calm counsel when stakes are high and time is short.
Why Companies Hire Elaine
The differentiator is not just experience. It is the combination of legal rigor, executive judgment, and human insight applied at exactly the moments when businesses cannot afford weak advice.
Fractional GC without friction
Senior strategic counsel on a flexible basis, built for growing companies that need depth without the burden of a full-time executive hire.
Attorney and psychologist
Legal strategy shaped by a sharper understanding of decision-making, conflict, persuasion, and leadership under pressure.
International range
Extensive transaction experience across multiple regions and business cultures — uncommon depth for a boutique advisory practice.
Trusted by leaders facing consequential decisions
Clients turn to Elaine when they need more than technical legal work — they need clarity, discretion, and judgment that holds up in rooms where pressure is high and outcomes matter.
“Elaine brings rare perspective. She does not just identify legal risk — she helps leadership think more clearly about the real decision.”
Founder · growth company
“Her ability to combine legal strategy with executive insight made her indispensable during a complex, cross-border business negotiation.”
Chief Executive · international business
“She offers what many firms don’t: judgment. Calm, senior, strategic judgment exactly when the stakes are highest.”
Private client · advisory engagement
Private strategic advisory for executives
Some matters require a more confidential, more calibrated kind of counsel — especially when business, personal dynamics, negotiation, and reputation all converge.
- High-stakes decision support during growth, conflict, or transition.
- Trusted sounding-board role for negotiations and sensitive conversations.
- Discreet advisory perspective beyond standard outside counsel work.
Schedule a confidential consultation
Whether you need ongoing fractional counsel or advice on a specific strategic matter, the first conversation is focused, practical, and tailored to your company’s immediate needs.
Fractional GC, strategic projects, transactions, executive advisory
Founders, CEOs, boards, investors, and growth-stage companies
Email or call to discuss the scope, urgency, and best structure for support