Fractional General Counsel for Healthcare & Health Technology

Strategic Legal Leadership for Healthcare & Health Technology

A Fractional General Counsel is a senior legal leader who supports a company on a flexible, part-time, or embedded basis. For healthcare and health technology companies, this means strategic legal guidance across transactional matters, regulatory compliance, digital health operations, and international market entry, without the overhead of a full-time hire.

Global Link Law’s Fractional GC service brings attorney-level counsel directly into your operations. We work alongside your leadership team to manage contracts, navigate regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and support growth, whether you’re a digital health startup, a healthcare services company, or an international organization entering the U.S. market.

We integrate with your team across our core practice areas: Transactional & Corporate, Regulatory & Compliance, Digital Health & Technology, and International Market Entry, delivering the legal continuity and strategic depth your organization needs to move confidently.

Our Fractional General Counsel works alongside our Regulatory & Compliance, FCPA & anti-corruption, and investigations teams. Learn about Global Link Law and meet our strategic leadership.

What a Fractional General Counsel Changes

When senior counsel is part of how decisions get made, three things change.

Legal Is in the Room Early. Most legal cost in a growing company comes from decisions made before a lawyer saw them: a pricing term agreed on a call, a data right given away in a pilot agreement, a reseller appointed on a handshake. Your fractional GC sits in the leadership conversations where those decisions start, so the contract reflects the deal the business meant to make.

One Counsel, the Whole Firm Behind It. No single general counsel is expert in data privacy and AI, HIPAA, cross-border entity structure and employment law at once. Ours does not have to be. When a question needs depth, it goes to the Global Link Law attorneys who practice in that area every day, inside the same engagement and under the same privilege, with no new intake and no new learning curve.

Privilege Covers the Hard Questions. Advice on a regulatory gray area, a contract dispute that may become litigation, or an employee complaint is worth more when it is protected. Because your fractional GC is engaged as counsel, those conversations and the analysis behind them can be protected by privilege when the engagement is structured correctly from the start.

What the Engagement Covers

Engagements vary, but the work falls into three areas.

Contracts and Commercial Terms. Customer, vendor and partner agreements, reviewed against a playbook built for your business so routine deals move quickly and unusual terms get attention. Business associate agreements, data use and licensing terms, reseller and distribution agreements, and the enterprise and health system contracts that decide how fast you grow. Negotiation support when a counterparty’s paper needs to become workable.

Regulatory and Compliance Direction. Where your product and business model sit under HIPAA, state privacy law, AI rules, telehealth and licensure requirements, and fraud and abuse law. Policies that match how the company actually operates. When the compliance function needs its own leader, our Fractional Chief Compliance Officer service works alongside.

Corporate, Investors and Growth. Board and governance support, equity and option documentation, financing rounds and investor diligence, and M&A readiness. U.S. entity setup and market entry for international companies. Employment matters as the team grows, and a direct line to our investigations team if something goes wrong.

Your First Ninety Days

Days 1-15. Orientation and Contract Inventory. We learn the business and gather what exists: governing documents and the cap table, customer and vendor contracts, templates, open disputes, pending deals and any regulator contact. Most companies find agreements they forgot they signed.

Days 16-45. Legal Risk Review. Conversations with the people who sell, buy, build and hire. We map where legal exposure sits in contracts, data flows, regulatory status and employment practices, and deliver a written review prepared as privileged legal advice.

Days 46-70. Playbooks and Priorities. Standard templates and a negotiation playbook so routine contracts stop waiting on legal, an approval path that says which decisions need counsel, and a ranked list of the issues worth fixing first, with owners and dates.

Days 71-90. Build the Operating Rhythm. A standing leadership check-in, a contract turnaround target, board reporting where it applies, and a clear path for new issues. From here the engagement becomes ongoing.