Acuity Green
General Counsel Circle

Acuity Green General Counsel CircleAcuity Green General Counsel CircleAcuity Green General Counsel Circle

Acuity Green
General Counsel Circle

Acuity Green General Counsel CircleAcuity Green General Counsel CircleAcuity Green General Counsel Circle

Grow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory Strategy

Grow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory StrategyGrow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory StrategyGrow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory Strategy

Grow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory Strategy

Grow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory StrategyGrow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory StrategyGrow with Acuity Fractional General Counsel Legal & Regulatory Strategy

Grow with Acuity

General Counsel Circle

General Counsel Circle

Your growing business deserves to move faster, think sharper, and grow stronger with smart, strategic leadership grounded with legal acumen.


Access general counsel executive leadership and government and regulatory strategy, without the rigidity of a full-time executive overhead. 


Engage with government and regulators with confidence. Pursue objectives in complex environments with legally grounded human decision making. 


Access the experience you need to clarify and strengthen your government relations and regulatory strategy narrative to achieve better outcomes.

General Counsel Circle

General Counsel Circle

General Counsel Circle

The General Counsel is one of the most strategic seats in an organisation. Are you at risk being without?


Acuity Green reimagines general counsel access for modern Australian organisations. 


Our General Counsel Circle transforms how businesses access general counsel leadership. Making it possible for any organisation, regardless of size, to level the playing field with general counsel strategic insight and collaboration for sustainable growth.


We embed strategic, commercially minded general counsel expertise into your organisation on flexible terms to unlock growth, reduce risk, and turn legal and regulatory complexity into a competitive advantage.

Who We Are

Kate Stewart

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

Founding Partner

BBUS LLB LLM Executive MBA

QUT I MIT (Sloan) I AICD

Admitted to practice in 2003, Kate's career has spanned highly regulated industries of banking, finance, insurance, aviation and defence. Kate has held senior executive service roles in the Commonwealth and QLD Government and worked on some of Australia's biggest national i

Founding Partner

BBUS LLB LLM Executive MBA

QUT I MIT (Sloan) I AICD

Admitted to practice in 2003, Kate's career has spanned highly regulated industries of banking, finance, insurance, aviation and defence. Kate has held senior executive service roles in the Commonwealth and QLD Government and worked on some of Australia's biggest national infrastructure projects (ICT, energy transformation). Kate is a commercial lawyer specialising in technology, privacy, and data.


What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

Acuity Green reflects our ethos, to apply sharp thinking to unlock new possibilities and create new perceptions. 

The value proposition for Acuity Green is ‘grow with acuity’.  We see the name as a verb – a constant action to move towards better outcomes.


Ask us how we can help your organisation

info@acuitygreen.com.au


Janet Hawke

What’s in a name?

Janet Hawke

Founding Partner (Solicitor Director)

BCOM LLB (HONS) BBUS 

Diploma Export Management

QUT I UQ 

Admitted to practice in 2000, Janet specialises in contracts, information and communication technology, intellectual property and procurement. Over the course of her career, Janet has worked in top-tier private practice, as a senior lawyer for the 

Founding Partner (Solicitor Director)

BCOM LLB (HONS) BBUS 

Diploma Export Management

QUT I UQ 

Admitted to practice in 2000, Janet specialises in contracts, information and communication technology, intellectual property and procurement. Over the course of her career, Janet has worked in top-tier private practice, as a senior lawyer for the Commonwealth Government and leading the Public Sector legal team at a global cloud-based software company.

General Counsel Circle

Acuity Green's General Counsel Circle provides an innovative model of General Counsel service delivery to support modern Australian organisations and General Counsels perform their best.


Organisations starting out, scaling, or operating in highly regulated industries often struggle to access senior legal expertise that integrates strategic advisory with practical execution. 


Our General Counsels work in small locked in units (or teams) of 2 to 3 to provide matched organisations with access to very senior, experienced, trusted General Counsels on a fractional basis. 


This fractional embedded model provides each General Counsel Circle with a trusted bench (or brains trust) of highly skilled colleagues to tap into and provides each organisation supported by that circle double or triple the depth of experience, skills, and coverage when complexity, crisis, or major events happen.

Contact Us Today

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please don't hesitate to contact us today. 

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What OUR General Counsels brings to the table

Navigate complexity

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Commercial acumen with momentum

By understanding your goals, risk profile, and operating environment, our GC's help leadership teams navigate complexity and make informed, commercially sound decisions. Our GC's are highly experienced human sounding boards grounded in legal acumen.

Commercial acumen with momentum

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Commercial acumen with momentum

Receive practical, business‑aligned legal guidance from legal executives who take the time to understand your operations and support momentum. Experience counts.

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Accelerate contracts, governance processes and strategic initiatives with dedicated legal support that removes bottlenecks and enables confident organisational progress. 

Access high-calibre talent

Predictable, transparent pricing

Faster decisions, fewer bottlenecks

Experienced legal leadership for governance uplift, regulatory engagement or implementation, management of crisis response, significant procurements, or major negotiations, without long‑term commitments or additional headcount.

Predictable, transparent pricing

Predictable, transparent pricing

Predictable, transparent pricing

Benefit from fixed‑fee or retainer models that provide cost certainty, eliminate hourly billing surprises, and support planned, controlled legal investment.

Board-level strategic insight

Predictable, transparent pricing

Predictable, transparent pricing

Gain a seasoned legal leader who shapes strategy, anticipates risk, and supports confident, defensible decisions without adding permanent executive headcount.

Regulatory Strategy and Engagement

Trust matters.

A compelling narrative and a clear, consistent delivery avenue are essential to create the foundation of trust, credibility and influence in an effective government relations and engagement strategy. 


When organisations articulate their purpose, priorities and public value through a coherent story, stakeholders can understand not just what is being proposed, but why it matters. This clarity strengthens relationships, supports early issue‑spotting, and enables constructive dialogue before challenges escalate.


A strong narrative also becomes a stabilising force in crisis management, ensuring messages remain aligned, transparent and confidence‑building when scrutiny is highest. 

In regulatory development and implementation, it helps translate complex policy intent into practical, actionable pathways that resonate with government, industry and community audiences. 


Ultimately, a disciplined narrative and delivery elevate engagement from transactional to strategic, enabling better decisions, smoother implementation and more durable outcomes across the policy and regulatory lifecycle.


Build trust. Engage well. Grow a strong narrative and consistent delivery with Acuity Green.


Contact Us

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please don't hesitate to contact us today.

Get in Touch

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General Counsel legal services are provided on a virtual secondment basis embedded into your business on a fractional rate to suit your needs. 

Acuity Green can provide legal services to Commonwealth non-corporate and corporate entities under sub-contracting arrangements with Lawyerbank Pty Ltd.


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We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to the Elders both past and present.

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