Ten sectors, one table

Counselyn's founding cohort spans more than ten sectors: banking, shipping, tourism and hospitality, ICT, fintech, construction and real estate, automotive, media, and trading.

That spread is not incidental. It is the point.

Why sector range matters more than sector depth

Most legal networks organise around specialism. Banking lawyers talk to banking lawyers. Shipping counsel talk to shipping counsel. That model works for technical exchange, but it has a blind spot: the problems senior in-house counsel actually face — board pressure, resourcing, regulatory change, managing risk without a partner-track safety net — do not respect sector boundaries.

A General Counsel in shipping and a Head of Legal in fintech are solving different regulatory puzzles. But they are solving the same structural one: how to be the only senior lawyer in a room full of commercial decision-makers, and be right.

Counselyn is built on the bet that this structural problem matters more than the technical one, for the kind of conversation that does not happen anywhere else.

What ten-plus sectors actually means in the room

Banking. Shipping. Tourism and hospitality. ICT. Fintech. Construction and real estate. Automotive. Media. Trading.

In practice, it means a CLO in shipping can ask a Head of Legal in tourism how she structured her board reporting line, and get a straight answer, because neither is selling to the other or competing for the same work. It means the construction sector's experience of contract risk informs how someone in automotive thinks about supply chain exposure. It means nobody at the table is a competitor, and everybody at the table has sat in the same chair: the one with the legal risk, governance, compliance, and board accountability, but without a hundred-lawyer firm behind them.

That is a different room from a sector conference or a law firm CLE. It is also a harder room to build, because it cannot be assembled by sending the same invitation to one industry's address book.

Built deliberately, not by accident

The founding cohort was not recruited to hit a sector quota. It was recruited because each member meets the same bar — minimum ten years' post-qualification experience, currently sitting inside a business, not in private practice or consulting, owning legal risk, governance, compliance, transactions, or board-facing responsibility — and because Cyprus's senior in-house community is, by nature, cross-sectoral. The lawyers who carry that weight in Cyprus do not all work in the same industry. They should not have to find each other one introduction at a time.

Ten-plus sectors, one table, is what that looks like when it is done on purpose.