Fractional general counsel
Ongoing, right-sized legal support for leadership decisions, contract priorities, risk management, and coordination across the business.
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Legal counsel for the business you’re building.
Outside general counsel for founders and growing companies—combining day-to-day corporate and commercial support with deep payments and fintech experience.
Your legal benchBuilt to scale
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FoundationEntity structure, founder terms, core documents
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GovernanceOperating agreements, consents, minutes, records
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ContractsCustomers, vendors, partners, team members
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Growth & riskCompliance, diligence, disputes, legal operations
Fractional general counsel
Corporate governance
Commercial contracts
Payments & fintech
Founder-focused counsel
One legal partner, from formation through scale.
Get practical, business-aware support for the recurring legal work that keeps a company organized, protected, and ready for its next opportunity.
Corporate & governance
Operating and shareholder agreements, board and member minutes, written consents, resolutions, officer actions, and corporate record maintenance.
Strengthen the foundationCommercial operations
Customer, vendor, SaaS, NDA, referral, licensing, partnership, employment, and contractor agreements built around how the company actually works.
Support day-to-day operationsPayments & fintech
Merchant-processing and fintech agreements, BSA/AML and product-risk counseling, partner negotiations, and ISO residual disputes.
Explore payments counselA legal function that grows with you
A legal department before you need a full-time one.
Founders need more than documents in isolation. They need a lawyer who can learn the business, spot connections between decisions, build repeatable systems, and know when specialist counsel should join the team.
Fractional general counsel can provide continuity across governance, contracts, people, compliance, fundraising preparation, disputes, and the daily questions that otherwise accumulate.
See how fractional GC worksCompany lifecycleLegal support at every stage
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FormStructure, ownership, IP, founder terms
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GovernMinutes, consents, resolutions, records
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SellCustomer, channel, and partner contracts
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HireEmployees, contractors, policies, advisors
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ScaleCompliance, diligence, risk, legal operations
A high-intent payments issue
“Global stopped paying my residuals. What does my agreement actually protect?”
The answer may depend on termination language, alleged default, merchant ownership, offsets, amendments, and years of reporting data.
Residual disputes
When the payments stop, start with the whole agreement.
Carbide Law reviews the compensation model together with termination, default, non-solicitation, indemnification, setoff, assignment, and portfolio provisions—not as an ordinary unpaid-commission claim.
The dedicated guide addresses searches such as “Global not paying residuals” without assuming that any withholding is proper or improper before the contract and facts are reviewed.
Read the Global Payments residual guideIndustry fluency
Not a generic commission dispute.
An ISO residual stream is tied to merchant performance, pricing, network costs, risk events, reserves, contractual allocation, and the structure of the acquiring relationship. Effective advice must account for all of it.
Residual calculations and reporting
Buy rates, markups, and amendments
Chargebacks, reserves, and losses
Merchant portability and assignment
Termination and alleged default
Past-due and future-stream valuation
Principal attorney
Kasim Carbide
Kasim’s practice combines payments-industry depth with day-to-day in-house perspective. Drawing on experience supporting North American legal matters for a fintech, he advises privately held and publicly traded companies on corporate governance, commercial operations, merchant processing, partnerships, fintech products, compliance, privacy, and disputes.
That background allows Carbide Law to work like part of the business: understanding the operating reality, translating legal risk into practical choices, and helping leadership decide what needs attention now, next, or through specialist counsel.
J.D., cum laude
Illinois-licensed attorney
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
Multilingual counsel
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Payments insights
Understand the issue before choosing the strategy.
Global Payments v. Frontline
What the published appellate decision shows about residual compensation, termination, merchant relationships, damages, and contract drafting.
Read the case guideDo residuals survive termination?
The key provisions to review before deciding whether payments should continue after an ISO or sales-agent agreement ends.
Review the frameworkBuild the document record
Agreements, amendments, monthly reports, merchant data, notices, and payment history can determine what can be proven and valued.
See the checklistThe day-to-day legal function
Support for the questions between major milestones.
People & operations
Offer letters, contractor and advisor agreements, confidentiality, policy review, issue spotting, and coordination with employment counsel when needed.
Growth & diligence
Corporate cleanup, strategic partnerships, financing and diligence preparation, cap-table and record review, and transaction support.
Legal operations
Contract templates, approval workflows, risk triage, insurance and claims coordination, outside-counsel management, and practical legal planning.
Bring the question early
Build the legal foundation before it becomes cleanup.
Whether you are organizing governance, negotiating a major agreement, hiring, managing risk, or facing a payments dispute, start with the business goal and the documents you already have.