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Leadership teams ready to start
You know AI matters. You don’t yet have a plan – or a way to roll it out without putting data, trust or people at risk.
A lawyer who’d rather build than block
The lawyer who gets things
off the ground.
Contracts, corporate matters, GDPR and AI. I bring the curiosity to ask the right questions, and the legal judgment to act on the answers – along the way, not after.
LEGAL, BUT USEFUL✦︎
CLEAR
ENOUGH
ENOUGH
human
friendly
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friendly
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What I do
Start with
your question.
These are the questions I hear most often. Find yours, and we know where to start.
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“We don’t have a lawyer, but we need one”
Ongoing advice for companies without in-house counsel. Contracts, GDPR, policies and questions from management, from a lawyer who knows your business.
- Ongoing advice
- Contracts
- Policies
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“I need an extra pair of hands”
Sole in-house lawyer with more matters than hours? I step in as extra capacity and help you make legal tech and AI work in practice.
- Extra capacity
- Legal tech
- Legal ops
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“What does this contract actually mean?”
How should it be read, can it be renegotiated, what do you reply to the other side? A clear answer and a suggested next step.
- Contract review
- Negotiation
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“How do we build this right from the start?”
You’re building an app, a system or an AI service. I join the build, help you make the right calls and act as the bridge between tech and legal, so you don’t have to redo it.
- Privacy by design
- AI
- Product
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“Are we getting GDPR and the AI Act right?”
A review against GDPR and the AI Act, policies people can follow, and AI governance that doesn’t slow you down.
- GDPR
- AI Act
- AI governance
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“We’re raising capital”
Prepare for due diligence, build a data room that holds up and an investment case investors understand. I have led two funding rounds end to end.
- Due diligence
- Capital
- Governance
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“Our team needs to get it”
Tailored in-house training and workshops for your team, on site or online. On AI governance, law and data protection: what it is, how to do it and what to watch out for. Explained so people understand and can act the next day.
- In-house training
- Workshops
- AI governance
Who I work with
Not just tech.
Organizations that run on expertise.
My background is broad: courtroom, law firm, SaaS scale-ups and legal innovation. I’ve also trained leaders from manufacturing to regional business. If your organization runs on knowledge, data and trust, we’ll speak the same language.
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Lean legal teams
One or two lawyers, a growing company and a to-do list that keeps growing. You need capacity and judgment, not another memo.
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Owners at a turning point
Capital, a new business line, a new direction. Big decisions, hard to undo.
Kind words
Trusted to make
things clearer.
Quotes from a few of the amazing people I’ve had the privilege to work with.
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Helena was one of the sharpest, most trusted people on my leadership team at Adway. She thinks like an operator, not just a lawyer – and it shows in work that keeps paying off long after she’s moved on. Any founder lucky enough to work with her should feel the same.
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Building Lextopia together was one of the most energizing projects of my time at Fondia. Helena doesn't just understand AI and legal tech in theory – she gets in and builds the actual workflows, and brings the rest of the organization along with her. That combination is genuinely rare.
Case studies
Proof,
not promises.
Two engagements that show how I work. More on the case studies page.
Completed↗︎Part of the build, not the after-the-fact reviewer
A GDPR-compliant AI tool, launched on schedule – by joining the build early instead of reviewing it after the fact.
A large corporate group had built an AI tool for internal GDPR pseudonymization of images. Brought in during development itself, as a running sounding board – not a post-launch review. Ran a risk assessment alongside the dev team, and reviewed exactly what metadata the service actually needed, stripping out anything kept “just in case” that risked employees’ privacy. Result: a genuinely useful tool that saved time and money, was GDPR-compliant, and protected employee privacy – with no delay to launch.
Completed↗︎From bottleneck to sales engine
A measurably shorter sales cycle – built on new contract templates, clear decision rights, and an ISO 27001 certification in four months.
Contracts were drafted from scratch every time, and large customers’ security and procurement reviews were dragging out the sales cycle. Built a SaaS-standardized contract structure and a decision-rights framework giving sales reps freedom inside clear limits, with built-in thresholds for when a deal needed to escalate to a manager. Designed the templates and user rights structure to be intuitive both for in-house CLM users and for the counterparty receiving the draft. Rolled out and trained the team on legal tech tools, built a HubSpot-based sales playbook for one source of truth on numbers, and co-led the company’s ISO 27001 certification in about four months, building on governance work already in place. Result: fewer negotiation rounds, shorter time from verbal yes to signature, less friction in security reviews, and a measurably shorter sales cycle. The framework was still running largely unchanged years after she moved on.
“Is this even allowed?” “Where do we start?” “Who decides?”
Let’s untangle it.
Tell me where you are, what you’ve tried, or what keeps sliding to the bottom of the to-do list.
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