01 / START & GROW
Founder and growth advisory
Commercially grounded counsel for the choices that shape a young or scaling business, from structure and contracts to risk, people and growth strategy.
Legal judgement. Commercial leadership.
Highly tailored commercial legal advice for founders and leadership teams building, stabilising, turning around or preparing to sell a business.
Counsel built around the business
Rosie McKimmie brings a lawyer's judgement, a founder's pragmatism and a turnaround leader's grip on what makes a business stable enough to grow.
Every recommendation is shaped by the commercial objective, the stage of the business and the risk that genuinely needs attention. You get clarity on what is essential now, what can wait and what must be built next.
Where Rosie helps
01 / START & GROW
Commercially grounded counsel for the choices that shape a young or scaling business, from structure and contracts to risk, people and growth strategy.
02 / STABILISE
Calm, senior support when a business needs sharper governance, cleaner decisions, risk control and a credible plan back to stability.
03 / LEAD
Flexible senior legal leadership without the commitment of a full-time hire, aligned to the board, the strategy and the realities of execution.
The flagship diagnostic
A focused deep dive to find the legal and commercial potholes before the business lands in them.
You leave with a prioritised short-, medium- and long-term roadmap: what needs fixing, why it matters, and the safest commercial sequence for getting from A to B.
STAGE 01
STAGE 02
STAGE 03
“The aim is not to bury founders in legal work. It is to focus on what is essential, when it is needed, so the business can move safely and commercially.”
Rosie McKimmie
Commercial judgement under pressure
During Rosie's tenure as Global General Counsel, Newsweek's digital-first turnaround became the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.
About
A senior commercial legal adviser who has sat on both sides of the table.
Rosie combines more than 24 years of legal experience with first-hand experience founding start-ups and a decade in turnaround leadership. That combination changes the advice: it is not abstract, over-engineered or detached from the pressure of running a company.
Her work is designed for founders, boards and leadership teams who want a trusted adviser able to connect legal risk with the commercial road ahead.
Start with the road ahead
Request a confidential conversation about the GC MoT, a current legal or commercial challenge, or the next stage of your growth, turnaround or transaction.