Jersey // UAE // International
Legal infrastructure, built for the way you actually work.
FGC designs, builds and maintains the legal systems that founders, boards and regulated businesses rely on, from governance and contracts to embedded legal capability and AI-enabled knowledge.
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Design Legal Infrastructure
Design or rebuild the frameworks your organisation needs to scale, govern itself and manage legal risk with confidence.
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Embedded Legal Capability
Bring senior legal thinking into the business without defaulting to a traditional in-house lawyer or relying only on reactive external advice.
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Legal Document Studio
Commission contracts, policies, precedents and playbooks built around your organisation and designed to become useful operational assets.
More than documents. The legal framework behind how your business works.
Legal infrastructure combines advice, governance, entity architecture, contracts, policies, precedents, playbooks and knowledge systems to help teams make better decisions and manage growth with greater control.
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Direct access, always
Work directly with the lawyer responsible for your matter, someone who understands the business, the context and the work already done.
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Commercial thinking first
Advice that accounts for your business roadmap and your regulatory exposure. Not just the black letter law.
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Fixed fees, no surprises
Transparent pricing tied to the agreed scope of work. You will know the cost before the work begins.
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Built for builders
A firm designed for businesses that are building, changing, scaling or entering new markets.
When the business moves faster than its legal foundations.
FGC works with founders and growth businesses building their legal foundations, and with boards and regulated businesses that need embedded legal capability. Different contexts, but the same need: clear, reusable legal infrastructure without unnecessary layers or an hourly clock.
Contracts have accumulated without a consistent position
Contracts have been negotiated at different times, by different people and against different assumptions. The result is inconsistent risk positions, repeated work and no clear house approach.
Governance exists on paper but not in day-to-day decisions
Governance documents exist, but decision rights, escalation routes and approval processes are not reflected in how the team actually operates.
Legal knowledge sits with one person or outside the business entirely
Key positions live in one person's head, in an adviser’s inbox or in documents that nobody can readily find, verify or reuse.
Policies and precedents have not kept pace with how the company operates.
Documents were drafted for an earlier version of the business. Without clear ownership and review points, they gradually stop reflecting how the organisation operates.
External advice is reactive, fragmented and difficult to reuse.
Questions go to different providers with no shared context. The advice may solve today's problem, but it does not build into a position the organisation can use next time.
Expansion into a new market exposes gaps in the current structure.
The legal foundation was built for where the business was, not where it is going. Growth exposes structural, contractual and regulatory gaps that were previously easy to miss.
"I'm worried because we couldn't find the right legal advice at the right time, we'll build on foundations that don't hold. We'll raise capital on a shareholder agreement that doesn't protect us. And by the time we find out, it'll cost ten times more to fix."
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Find the right starting point for what the business actually needs.
Traditional law firms are well suited to large institutional transactions, multi-jurisdictional structuring and high-value litigation. FGC is designed for founders who need to move quickly and regulated businesses that need embedded expertise rather than episodic advice.
Common questions
FAQs
Straight answers to the questions founders, directors and leadership teams ask before picking up the phone.
Why not a big firm?
Large firms are designed for complex institutional matters and tiered delivery. FGC is designed for businesses that need senior, commercially grounded support without unnecessary layers. You work directly with the lawyer responsible for the matter.
Can you replace our GC?
For some businesses, yes. EMBED can operate as an outsourced or fractional legal function, providing ongoing legal oversight without an immediate full-time hire. For others, it supplements an existing legal or leadership team.
What do you charge?
FGC agrees the scope and fee before work begins. You know what the agreed work will cost, with no hourly billing or surprise invoice at the end of the month. The price is tied to the scope of work, not time recorded.
Is this a full-service firm?
No. FGC focuses on corporate, regulatory and commercial work. Matters are senior-led, with Rory Forrest, a qualified Jersey Advocate, responsible for the work. Where specialist advice is required, FGC coordinates trusted counsel.
Do you understand AI?
Yes. FGC is built for technology founders and regulated businesses, and AI is part of both the subject matter and the delivery model. The first conversation starts with the business, its product and its risk profile, not a generic explanation of the technology.