LEGAL · FUNDING ACCESS · COMPANY FORMATION

    The road to capitalruns through the law.

    We incorporate your company in the right country, prepare every document an investor or a funding committee will examine, and make you ready to apply to programmes in the Gulf and Europe.

    27 verified programmes · $26M+ combined ceiling · every record with its official source

    THREE PRACTICES

    One firm, three distinct practices.

    All three come from the same place: a team that understands technology legally and commercially. The first two serve founders, the third serves lawyers.

    01For founders and companies

    LEGAL ADVISORY

    Build the company defensible from day one.

    We decide which market you enter, under which licence and in which order, then build the entity, the product and the contracts around that. From first incorporation to multi-country licensing, the same team.

    • Market entry and licensing strategy
    • Entity, product and token structuring
    • MiCA, VARA and EU AI Act compliance
    • Contracts, shareholding and intellectual property
    02For founders and companies

    FUNDING ACCESS

    Knock on capital's door with the right file.

    We write your file in the language of whoever reads it in the Gulf or in Brussels, rank the funds, accelerators and grant programmes you qualify for, and run the applications with you.

    • UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar programmes
    • EIC Accelerator and European grants
    • An application written in the programme's language
    • Application, interview and follow-up
    03For lawyers and legal teams

    AI FOR LAWYERS

    Learn to use AI on the file itself.

    Practice, not lecture: we teach the exact workflows we run on our own matters. Live cohorts and in-house programmes for lawyers, legal teams and firms.

    • Live, hands-on cohorts
    • Recording library and skill archive
    • Firm transformation programme
    • Closed in-house training

    FUNDING WIZARD

    Which funds do you qualify for? Find out in two minutes.

    Answer seven questions and we match your profile against verified programmes in the Gulf, Europe and Türkiye. See the programmes you can apply to and the total you could receive, right away.

    • 7 questions · 2 minutes
    • 27 verified programmes
    • Every record with its official source
    Show my programmes

    Free, no sign-up.

    WHY US

    You never have to explain the technology.

    With law, capital and technology at one table, a file moves faster and holds up better.

    Law and capital at one table

    How the company is structured and how the investor reads the file are not separate jobs. Built together, both the application and the negotiation move faster.

    Every figure from its official source

    Every programme, amount and date we show you is checked word for word on the programme's own page. What we cannot verify, we do not show.

    Fixed fees, predictable budget

    No hourly surprises. Scope and fee are agreed in writing before work starts, per project or as a monthly retainer.

    Crypto-native and AI-native

    We use on-chain products every day and run every matter through our own AI stack. You never explain your product from scratch.

    TEAM

    Who reads your application?

    Not a call centre: the people who will work on your file.

    The whole team
    Alp Mete Şirin

    Alp Mete Şirin

    Founder · Legal and Regulatory Strategist

    He founded Defensible Consultancy to work where technology meets regulation. He builds the legal foundations of AI, fintech and crypto companies, opens their access to the funds and investment programmes of the Gulf, and teaches lawyers at Defensible Academy to use AI in their own work. He has active matters in Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

    Deniz Çelikkaya

    Deniz Çelikkaya

    Head of European Funding Programmes · Solicitor (England & Wales)

    A solicitor admitted in England and Wales, working from London. She works where law meets AI, with founders, law firms and investors: EU AI Act compliance, AI governance and companies' own AI policies. She also lectures on AI. At Defensible she carries the European and UK side; the files of companies applying to programmes such as the EIC Accelerator and Horizon Europe, and the regulatory thresholds they have to clear in Europe, sit on her desk.

    NUMBERS

    Efficient, rigorous, built for frontier technology.

    27

    Funding programmes in the Gulf, Europe and Türkiye, verified against their official sources

    $26M+

    The sum of the highest amounts available from these programmes

    40+

    Startups, exchanges and firms advised on market entry and compliance

    86+

    Lawyers and professionals trained at Defensible Academy

    Let's work out where to start.

    Fill in the two-minute form. I read every application myself and reply within 24 hours; the first call is free for files that fit.