Legal, Regulatory & Strategic Counsel
Your flexible GC,
on your terms.
Clancy provides legal, regulatory and strategic counsel to high-growth businesses.
Supporting your growth.
Regulatory strategy & engagement
Helping you navigate licensing, compliance and regulator relationships as you scale into new products or markets.
Commercial
Contracts and partnerships, drafted and negotiated with commercial intent.
Corporate
Corporate transactions including fundraising, share sales, board resolutions and company constitutional documents.
Governance & risk
Board governance, policies and risk frameworks that hold up under scrutiny and diligence.
Data, privacy & technology
Privacy, intellectual property and technology counsel for data-driven and AI-enabled businesses.
Terms & conditions
Whether you need customer-facing terms for your regulated product, or a privacy policy for your website, we can help.
Shaped by experience.
David Stephens
Principal
David has spent more than a decade advising businesses across a range of industries, most recently in senior roles within regulated fintechs. He has particular experience advising at the intersection of law, regulation and commercial strategy.
David founded Clancy to give businesses the flexibility to get the cost-effective support they need, when they need it. Whether a company has yet to make its first legal hire, or simply has a project that calls for expertise, Clancy can help.
Connect on LinkedInDavid has real cut-through; he’s able to distil complex legal concepts into clear, commercial terms, and he brought that same sharp, business-minded approach to our Leadership Team meetings. David steered the ship brilliantly through a demanding period, as we launched new regulated products and features, and our international expansion. I’ve truly valued having him as our GC.
Tim Chong
Co-Founder and CEO, Yonder
I really enjoyed working with David at Klarna. He’s the rare kind of lawyer who just “gets it”, and who genuinely partners with the business to achieve results. I’ll always be grateful for the way he supported me through my FCA SMCR interview process. Thanks to his coaching, I walked into a potentially daunting process feeling genuinely prepared. I would work with him again in a heartbeat.
Niall Kilkenny
ex-UK CFO, KlarnaFinance Director, Monument Bank
Flexible by design.
The model is deliberately simple. Engage us however suits you: as an ongoing fractional GC, for a single defined project, or on call under a retainer for whatever comes up.
01 Flexibility
We work the way you do, fitting around your operations and your team rather than the other way round.
02 Commercially fluent
Counsel that moves the business forward, not memos that merely explain the law.
03 Human-led, AI-enabled
We use state-of-the-art language models where they help us serve you efficiently, but we always take full responsibility for the work we deliver.
Start a conversation.
Tell us where you're headed and what's in the way. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.
- Email enquiries@clancycounsel.com
- Office London & remote