Scale · International growth
Fractional General Counsel
Strategic Legal Advisor
Senior legal judgement — without law-firm complexity.
Start a conversationExperience across the growth journey
From start-up to IPO — and beyond.
30+ years of legal leadership across start-ups, scaling, hypergrowth, international expansion, IPO and public-company environments.
1START-UP
2SCALE-UP
3HYPERGROWTH
4IPO
5PUBLIC COMPANY
Legal leadership experience
IPO · Post-listing hypergrowth · Global scale
Hypergrowth · IPO · Post-listing hypergrowth
SPAC · NASDAQ · Post-listing
About Martijn Aardema
30+ years in the room.
Martijn Aardema has spent more than three decades working alongside founders, executives and boards — helping companies scale, navigate change and make difficult decisions without making them more complicated than they need to be.
Legal is part of the conversation, not the whole conversation. Years spent inside the business mean looking at the whole picture: understanding what matters, making a clear assessment and being a trusted sounding board — with a view, not just a legal opinion.
Advice is only useful if it works in practice. Martijn is an operator as much as an advisor — comfortable rolling up his sleeves, taking ownership and stepping into whatever needs solving. Not watching from the sidelines, but working alongside the people who have to get it done.
About MartijnWays to work together
Fractional General Counsel
Your GC — without the full-time hire.
Embedded senior legal leadership for companies that need an experienced General Counsel, but not five days a week. Part of the team, close to the business and there when it matters.
Interim General Counsel
Stepping in when you need a GC now.
Experienced legal leadership during transition, change or unexpected gaps. Taking ownership of the function and keeping things moving.
Strategic Legal Advisor
Senior judgement alongside you.
A trusted sounding board for founders, executives, boards and legal leaders who want an experienced view on important decisions — without needing another permanent role.