GC & CFO Alignment: Turning Legal Spend into a Strategic Lever

​Legal budgets are under more scrutiny than ever, but the GC–CFO relationship doesn't have to be adversarial.

​In this interactive workshop, senior legal leaders will work through the real challenges of communicating legal value to finance: from how outside counsel decisions get made, to what data actually moves the needle in a board conversation.

​Peer-led and facilitated, this session is designed for candid conversation, not keynote takeaways.

​Key Takeaways

• ​How to reframe outside counsel spend as a strategic investment, not a cost to justify

• ​What finance leaders actually need to feel confident in legal's decisions

• ​Practical approaches to building visibility and predictability into how your team engages outside counsel

• ​How to make the case for legal spend when cost pressure is high, and when to push

​PERSUIT is the operating system for enterprise external legal work and spend. The platform enables corporate legal teams to source, price, manage, and pay for legal service providers through one structured system. By bringing data, transparency, and competition into the market, PERSUIT helps legal leaders control spend and ensure firms earn work based on value.

​This session is part of LegalTechTalk 2026, Europe’s Event for Legal Transformation. A dynamic, annual in-person festival bringing together 5,500+ attendees from 75+ countries and over 400 industry-leading speakers across two days, on 17-18 June 2026 at InterContinental London - The O2.