Straight answers about how we work.

A fractional GC is a senior attorney who runs your legal function on an ongoing, part-time basis, the same role a full-time General Counsel would play, sized to what a growth-stage or mid-market company actually needs. At NanoGC, that attorney is Big-Law-trained and embedded in your team, not a vendor you call only when something breaks.

Traditional firms sell partner time and execute with associates, billed by the hour, so your costs rise with every email, call, and revision, and you often pay for someone's learning curve. We work as your embedded GC under a scoped engagement: a senior attorney owns your account, the price is tied to a defined scope, and the relationship is continuous rather than matter-by-matter.

Most engagements are scoped, priced to a defined Scope of Work and agreed before any work begins, so you can budget with confidence. Some specialized or unpredictable matters are handled hourly, but that is always disclosed and agreed up front. Either way, the goal is the same: no surprise invoices.

When you've outgrown ad-hoc outside counsel but can't yet justify a full-time GC's salary and equity. If contracts are piling up, regulatory exposure is growing, or board questions increasingly start with "let me check with our lawyers," you're in the gap we built NanoGC to fill.

We scope the work, then match it to an engagement tier, Anchor, Core, Command, or Enterprise, based on the depth and volume of legal support you need. You see the scope and the price before you commit, and we revisit the tier as your needs change rather than letting an open meter run.

A defined set of legal responsibilities, typically ongoing contract work, corporate and governance support, compliance, and counsel to your leadership team, delivered for a predictable fee. Anything outside the agreed scope is flagged and quoted before we start, never billed after the fact.

No. Pricing is agreed in writing through the Scope of Work, and out-of-scope matters are surfaced and priced before any work happens. You won't find associate training time, conflict-check ramp-up, or partner review ladders baked into your invoice.

Engagements are designed to flex. If your legal load increases, a financing round, a new product line, a regulatory shift, we move you to a tier that fits. If things quiet down, we right-size in the other direction. The point is to track your business, not lock you in.

Your attorney works inside your business, not from across town. They join the channels where decisions happen, learn your products and priorities, and are reachable like a member of the team, so legal input arrives while you're making the call, not weeks later in a memo.

Yes. We integrate into the tools your team already uses, Slack and email are standard, so quick questions get quick answers and you're not scheduling a formal call for every issue. For deeper work, we still produce the rigorous documents you'd expect from senior counsel.

Yes. The senior attorney you meet during scoping is the one who owns your account, the same person who reviews your contracts, joins the hard conversations, and knows your history. There's no partner-to-associate handoff once the engagement starts.

Because your attorney is embedded and already up to speed on your business, routine questions get same-day turnaround and urgent issues get prioritized attention. You're not re-explaining context or waiting in a queue behind unrelated matters.

We built NanoGC around areas where our attorneys have operator-level fluency rather than a wide-aperture "everything legal" practice. The deepest of those are growth-stage technology and venture-backed companies, venture financings and VC fund formation, from early-stage funds to larger funds above $25M, with continued depth in regulated industries like healthcare and digital health.

Seed, Series A, and later-stage financings; VC fund formation for early-stage through $25M+ funds; commercial and SaaS contracts; IP and data terms; corporate governance; and the AI-governance questions modern product teams now face. We speak operator, so the advice lands with your CTO and CFO instead of getting ignored.

HIPAA and data-privacy compliance, telehealth and multi-state licensing, fraud-and-abuse considerations (including Stark and Anti-Kickback exposure), reimbursement, and the commercial and financing agreements healthcare and health-tech companies live on. We focus on the regulatory, privacy, and commercial layer, not FDA submissions or clinical-trial conduct.

When your team describes a new feature or deal, we already understand the regulatory posture, the privacy considerations, and the contract landmines, so you don't pay for our learning curve, and we catch second-order risk before it becomes a problem.

It starts with an intro call. From there we move through a short process: Intake to understand your needs, Scoping to define the work, a tier-based Proposal, and then Engagement on an agreed Scope of Work. You'll know exactly what you're getting, and what it costs, before you commit.

Quickly. Because engagements are scoped rather than spun up matter-by-matter, a senior attorney can be embedded and working shortly after the Scope of Work is agreed.

NanoGC is led by founding partner Eugene Kim, with a curated bench of of-counsel attorneys and paralegals. We're intentionally small, the work and the outcomes are better at this scale.