Why Bratby Law?
For issues that need specialist regulatory judgement
Clients instruct Bratby Law when a legal issue turns on regulation, technology and commercial execution together. That usually means a question about telecoms, data protection or payments regulation that affects market entry, product design, a transaction or a live negotiation. They want a lawyer who already knows the regulatory framework and needs no briefing on it.
30+
Years’ experience across regulation, in-house and private practice
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Current fractional General Counsel appointments across telecoms and payments
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Core sectors: Telecoms | Data | Payments, with Transactions and Digital Regulation alongside
Specialist focus
Three regulated sectors and the transactions that depend on them. We do not try to cover every area of business law. Clients get advice grounded in regulatory detail, with fewer hours spent on context a specialist already has.
Regulatory, operator and law firm experience
More than 30 years across leading UK and US law firms, senior in-house experience at Colt, a telecoms operator, and a secondment to Oftel, and since 2020 as founder of Bratby Law, with four fractional General Counsel mandates held today across telecoms and payments. That combination gives clients a practical perspective on regulatory problems.
Senior-only delivery
The person who scopes the issue is the person who advises on it. No work is delegated to junior lawyers, so advice is more direct and arrives sooner.
We use an AI system for research, drafting and checking, and Rob Bratby signs off every piece of written advice. We explain the controls on How we use AI. Clients get the depth of a specialist practice with the responsiveness they would expect from a larger team, without the cost of one.
How we work alongside larger firms
Bratby Law
Specialist in telecoms, data and payments
Senior lawyer on every instruction
Regulator and operator perspective built in
Direct access, no delegation layers
Three flexible engagement models
AI-accelerated research, drafting and review
Alongside a larger firm’s deal team
The firm keeps its corporate, TMT and finance coverage
Its team keeps conduct of the deal
We add a regulator and operator perspective
We report to the lead partner
White-label or under our own name
Fixed fee for the initial regulatory review
A good fit for the right work
Bratby Law suits work that needs specialist regulatory judgement in telecoms, data protection or payments. That includes telecoms operators, fintechs, digital infrastructure businesses, investors, overseas businesses entering the UK market, in-house teams that need specialist support on a defined issue, and the corporate and private equity teams of large UK and US law firms that need a regulatory specialist alongside them on a deal.
We are less likely to be the right fit for high-volume, process-driven work outside our specialist areas.
Specialist advice in a regulated sector
We would be pleased to discuss the issue.