Carbon GC provides embedded General Counsel support for organisations navigating growth, complexity and change.

Designed for the moment when businesses outgrow reactive legal advice but are not yet ready for a full-time GC, Carbon GC brings clear judgement, commercial direction and leadership-level support directly into the heart of decision-making.

Led by Sarah Morbey, Carbon GC is built to help leadership teams move forward with confidence – not hesitation.

Our Services:

Carbon GC delivers a practical, integrated General Counsel function shaped around how your business actually operates.

Our support includes:

• Commercial Contracts & Negotiations: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts that enable deals to progress while managing risk appropriately.
• Governance & Decision-Making Frameworks: Establishing clear structures around authority, accountability and board-level decision-making.
• Legal Architecture & Playbooks: Building contract frameworks, policies and repeatable processes that reduce dependency on reactive advice.
• Risk Visibility & Regulatory Insight: Identifying pressure points across the business, providing clear reporting and forward-looking guidance.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Support: Supporting founders and leadership teams through complex decisions, investor relationships and internal challenges.
• Transactions & Strategic Projects: Senior support on M&A, partnerships, restructuring and other high-stakes moments.
• People, Culture & Internal Issues: Practical guidance on employment, organisational alignment and sensitive internal matters.
• Access to the Carbon Ecosystem: Seamless support across employment, litigation, regulatory, property and specialist areas when required.

Carbon GC ensures nothing falls between the cracks – providing one trusted relationship with depth behind it.

How We Work With You

Carbon GC provides flexible engagement levels designed to match your current needs – with the ability to scale support as your business evolves.

Advisory: Senior legal judgement on key decisions, contract review and light governance input. Designed for earlier stage businesses or those with lower legal volume who need General Counsel-level thinking without full-time commitment.

Embedded GC: Regular leadership involvement, commercial and governance support, legal architecture and periodic reporting. Our core fractional GC offering – designed for businesses navigating active growth and requiring consistent leadership-level support.

Strategic: Intensive support through transactions, disputes or significant periods of change. Built for clients facing elevated complexity or high-stakes activity requiring deep, sustained involvement.

Carbon GC defines engagement by level of involvement – not task lists. This ensures support remains flexible and responsive to what matters most. Project work outside the defined scope, such as M&A, disputes or specialist matters requiring support from the broader Carbon ecosystem or external counsel, is quoted separately with full transparency.

Sarah Morbey leads Carbon GC and brings significant senior in-house and General Counsel experience across healthcare, technology, commercial and high-growth environments.

Her experience includes:

• M&A and transaction leadership (buy-side and sell-side)
• complex commercial negotiations
• intellectual property strategy and disputes
• privacy, data and regulatory matters
• board-level governance and stakeholder management

Sarah is known for her ability to combine legal expertise with calm, commercially grounded judgement – helping leadership teams navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.

GC is in Our DNA

Carbon GC is not a standalone service.

It is built on a foundation that already exists across the firm.

General Counsel thinking has always shaped how Carbon works – grounded in relationships, judgement and real-world decision-making.

This runs through:

• Michael Burne, founder and CEO
• William Brewis and the wider leadership team
• Alison Mayfield, specialising in Financial Services and broader GC support
• Rhodri Lewis, Head of Carbon Sport, bringing senior GC experience within the sport sector

Carbon GC brings this collective experience together into a clear, focused offering.

Why Choose Carbon GC?

Choose Carbon GC for a legal partner that works inside your business, not alongside it.

• Clear judgement, not just advice
  Practical direction that helps you decide what to do next.
• Embedded support
  Advice shaped by your strategy, people and commercial reality.
• Built for growth
  Supporting scale with discipline, structure and resilience.
• Senior experience when it matters most
  Calm, credible support through high-stakes decisions.
• Connected capability
  Access to the full Carbon ecosystem when complexity increases.

Carbon GC transforms legal from a reactive function into part of how your business operates and grows.

Who Is This For?

Carbon GC is designed for organisations at a specific stage of growth.

Typically, our clients:

• are scaling beyond 15-20 people
• are winning larger or more complex work
• are facing increasing governance, legal or stakeholder pressure
• feel that traditional legal support isn’t joining the dots
• need better decision-making confidence at leadership level

Common trigger points include:

• a contract negotiation that exposed a gap in internal capability
• a founder disagreement that nobody is addressing
• an investor or board asking harder governance questions
• a people issue that escalated because it was handled informally
• a transaction, partnership or expansion that needs senior legal involvement

If your business is moving faster than its governance – Carbon GC brings the balance.

Begin Your Journey with Confidence

If your organisation needs more than legal answers – if it needs judgement, structure and support through growth – Carbon GC is here to help.

Get in touch to learn how we can support your next stage.

Why Choose Carbon GC?

Choose Carbon GC for a legal partner that works inside your business, not alongside it.

• Clear judgement, not just advice
  Practical direction that helps you decide what to do next.
• Embedded support
  Advice shaped by your strategy, people and commercial reality.
• Built for growth
  Supporting scale with discipline, structure and resilience.
• Senior experience when it matters most
  Calm, credible support through high-stakes decisions.
• Connected capability
  Access to the full Carbon ecosystem when complexity increases.

Carbon GC transforms legal from a reactive function into part of how your business operates and grows.

Who Is This For?

Carbon GC is designed for organisations at a specific stage of growth.

Typically, our clients:

• are scaling beyond 15-20 people
• are winning larger or more complex work
• are facing increasing governance, legal or stakeholder pressure
• feel that traditional legal support isn’t joining the dots
• need better decision-making confidence at leadership level

Common trigger points include:

• a contract negotiation that exposed a gap in internal capability
• a founder disagreement that nobody is addressing
• an investor or board asking harder governance questions
• a people issue that escalated because it was handled informally
• a transaction, partnership or expansion that needs senior legal involvement

If your business is moving faster than its governance – Carbon GC brings the balance.

Begin Your Journey with Confidence

If your organisation needs more than legal answers – if it needs judgement, structure and support through growth – Carbon GC is here to help.

Get in touch to learn how we can support your next stage.