Built by entrepreneurs,
for entrepreneurs.
We are a retained legal, commercial and corporate affairs function — an outsourced General Counsel for founder-led businesses. The model is ownership: we own outcomes rather than issue advice.
A message from the Managing Partner
“Keep your ego out of business — just win.”
Barrister-trained, with ten years of legal work that started in-house as General Counsel for an international manufacturing company. In-house nobody thanks you for the analysis; they ask whether it is closed.
From 2020 he founded and built businesses of his own — automotive, leisure and hospitality, real estate and blockchain — taking them to eight figures, and ran the legal function across all of them himself. Doing it himself saved him hundreds of thousands in fees.
That is where the frustration came from. Lawyers who answered a direct question with you could do this, or you could do that, and left the decision, the risk and the work with him. He wanted a solution that week, from someone who would then go and execute it.
As the companies scaled he found himself thinking he could just do with one person to take the legal work and the firefighting off his desk. Nobody was selling that. Dinmore Bell is the firm he wanted to hire.
Dinmore Bell is a growing team of entrepreneurs, general counsels, finance and compliance specialists. If that sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.
The case for engaging us
We are paid to close things, not to bill hours.
A regulated firm makes more money the longer a matter runs. We charge a fixed monthly fee, so every hour a matter stays open costs us and not you. It is the single most important difference between us and the alternative, and you can see it in how fast things get decided.
The person advising you has run businesses.
Dinmore Bell was founded by someone who built four companies to eight figures and did their legal work himself. You will not be told what the risk is without being told what the commercial answer is, because we have been the one who had to sign it.
Fifty to seventy per cent less than the hire.
A UK General Counsel is £120,000 to £180,000 plus pension, national insurance, recruitment and holiday cover. Our retainers start at £1,500 a month. Same judgement, none of the employment risk, and no three-month notice period if the fit is wrong.
You get a platform, not just a person.
The Contract Control Centre is ours, built in-house, and every engagement is onboarded onto it in week one. Your whole contract estate becomes a register with owners and dates. Nobody at our fee level offers that, because most of them do not have it.
One function across the UK and the UAE.
Groups operating across the corridor normally pay two sets of advisers who each understand half the picture. We run both sides under one scope, and we know which structure survives contact with a UK bank and a UAE free zone alike.
Regulated expertise, without you managing it.
Where a matter needs a litigator, a chartered tax adviser or a UAE-licensed advocate, we instruct specialists we already work with, hold the budget, and stay accountable for the outcome after they have finished. You keep one point of contact.
The specialist bank
We do not employ every discipline a business needs, and we do not pretend to. We hold a coordinated bank of regulated specialists, instruct them, control the budget, and remain accountable for the commercial outcome.
What value we bring to businesses
- Disputes settled before they reach a court list
- Employment matters run end to end, including the conversation
- Regulatory gaps closed with a trail you can show a buyer
- Supplier and landlord terms renegotiated on your side of the table
- Business rates, reliefs and overpayments recovered
- Debt collected without instructing external counsel
- Legal spend measured against an hourly-rate baseline each quarter
- Renewals caught before they auto-extend at a worse price
- Investment and acquisition documents in place ahead of diligence
- Cross-border structures that hold in the UK and the UAE alike
- IP and licensing turned into a revenue line
- A register that makes every renewal a decision rather than a surprise
Where we are
London
