Built for modern tech businesses
Experienced legal support for founders and leadership teams building at speed
Our services
Senior expertise from day one
We provide access to senior legal resources from the outset. Founders and teams work directly with highly experiences lawyers, who have held in-house roles at scaling technology companies, and bring judgement, context, and confidence to every decision.
Built for technology businesses
Gazelle Law works exclusively with technology and AI-driven companies. We understand how modern products are built, how teams move quickly, and where legal risk genuinely matters. Our advice is shaped by real operating experience inside high-growth tech businesses, not abstract legal theory.
Commercial, Not Bureaucratic
Our role is to help you move forward, fast. We focus on clear, practical advice that supports growth while managing risk appropriately for your stage. That means prioritising what matters, explaining trade-offs plainly, and avoiding unnecessary process or complexity.
Flexible, Embedded Support
We act as an extension of your team, not an arms-length external adviser. Many clients retain us on an ongoing basis, giving them responsive, day-to-day legal support that flexes as the business grows, while avoiding the need to build a full in-house function.
Our Expertise
Commercial
We support businesses across their full commercial lifecycle—from early customer contracts through to complex strategic partnerships. Our focus is on enabling revenue while managing risk in a way that is appropriate for your stage of growth.
This includes drafting and negotiating customer and supplier agreements, SaaS and platform contracts, licensing arrangements, and strategic collaborations. We help teams move quickly by standardising templates where it makes sense, prioritising negotiation points that matter, and translating legal risk into clear commercial options.
Privacy
For technology and AI businesses, privacy is not just compliance—it is a core enabler of product, growth, and trust. We help teams build privacy approaches that are workable in practice and credible with enterprise customers, regulators, and partners.
This includes advising on GDPR and international privacy requirements, product and marketing rollouts, privacy notices and policies, data processing agreements, cookies/consent, and responding to incidents or regulatory engagement. We focus on practical, risk-based solutions that align with how your product and operations actually function.
Data & Intellectual Property
Data and IP are central to value creation in technology businesses. We help clients protect what they are building, structure rights clearly, and manage data usage confidently—particularly where AI, training data, and complex data supply chains are involved.
This includes IP strategy and protection, ownership and assignment, licensing structures, open-source considerations, and managing IP in customer and partner contracts. On the data side, we advise on data use rights, data sharing, and the contractual and governance frameworks that support responsible use of data at scale.
Growth Stage
Legal needs evolve quickly as technology companies grow. Our services are structured to meet you where you are today, while anticipating what comes next.
Start-ups
We help early-stage founders put strong legal foundations in place without over-engineering. This often includes first customer contracts, early privacy compliance, IP protection, and practical guidance on risk as the business begins to scale.
Scale-ups
As teams grow, products mature, and operations expand internationally, legal complexity increases. We support scale-ups with contract standardisation, data strategy, regulatory navigation, and hands-on legal leadership during periods of rapid change.
Late-stage
For more established businesses, we act as senior legal support across complex commercial negotiations, advanced data and AI issues, and coordination with internal teams and external advisers.
Who we work with
We tailor how we work depending on who we are supporting within the business.
Founders & CEOs
We help founders make confident decisions quickly, translating legal risk into clear commercial options. Our role is to enable progress, not create friction—whether you are closing deals, launching products, or expanding into new markets.
General Counsel
We work alongside in-house lawyers as trusted external support to provide additional capacity, specialist expertise, or a senior perspective when needed. Many GCs use us to manage overflow work or to support strategic initiatives that need to get done, quickly.
Investors
We support investors and funds by being a trusted advisor and service provider to their portfolio companies, helping founders navigate legal complexity, and ensuring businesses are structured to scale sustainably and avoid future issues.
