Senior legal leadership before you can justify a hire.
PivotGC closes the gap between external law firms and a full-time General Counsel for European B2B scale-ups.
Scale-ups are underserved by the legal market.
European scale-ups are underserved by a legal market designed for Fortune 500 companies and one-person startups. They need senior legal leadership before they can justify a full-time hire, and they need it across multiple jurisdictions before any single law firm can serve them coherently. The recruitment market cannot deliver on scale-up timelines, and external counsel is structurally misaligned with scale-up economics.
PivotGC exists to close that gap.
One standard. No juniors dressed up as partners.
Every PivotGC General Counsel meets a common bar before they ever speak to a client.
- Top academic credentials from leading European law faculties.
- Admitted in their home jurisdiction, practising lawyers in good standing.
- International experience across at least three European countries — typically a mix of United Kingdom, Nordics, DACH, and Benelux.
- 5+ years advising C-level executives — founders, CEOs, COOs, CFOs — on material commercial and strategic matters.
- Scale-up fluency: either building or supporting the legal function inside a scale-up, or running meaningful parts of a multinational in-house team.
When we take on an engagement, we match a GC to your sector, your jurisdictional footprint, and your stage. You deal with one senior lawyer. The curated European specialist network sits behind them.